Photo Editing Tips

When I worked at Brewer Public Library we did not have a marketing librarian, so all marketing and outreach was done by library staff. Although it was a huge time investment, we saw real change when librarians began to take photos and submitted them to social media or the local paper. 

If your duties include editing photos as part of your library work, read on. 

J. D. Sartain writes: “You have many choices among photo editing software programs, whether it’s Adobe Photoshop, Corel Painter, Paintshop Pro, or GIMP.net—all of which now have very similar feature sets. These basic photo editing tips will help you work in pretty much any application available. The number one, most important tip I can share with you is this: Never edit your originals. Always make a copy and save that copy as a layered file, if possible, because layers can be adjusted and edited individually.”..

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