Raquel+Lopez+-+Photo+Editing

= Raquel's Experience with Photo Editing Software (Macromedia Fireworks 8) =

Digital Photo Editing.
 I used Macromedia Fireworks 8 to edit the photos I used for this section. This was the software that I used to make the photographs smaller for the Camera Explorations wiki. I wanted to further explore the software to see what types of effects I could get with the photographs I had taken. 

In this first photograph I used one of the styles that is available on Fireworks and I liked the results that I have. It made the palette look almost like a fresco painting. The style I used was Style 3.

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For this next photo I used another style which made the photo appear almost like liquid metal or almost chromelike. I thought this was a really cool effect since it changed the photo completely. I think this would be a great tool to use for students that may be interested in becoming graphic designers. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">  <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">

Lastly I used this software to resize and crop photos. Using the cropping tool I am able to crop parts of a photo that I do not necessarily want. To resize the photo, I highlighted the image, slid it to the side and clicked at the bottom under image size where a small window pops up on the screen. In this box I am able to change the pixel sizes of the image. Once I do this I am able to then make the image the size that I need.

Below is the original image and beside it is the cropped and resized image.

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