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Article: Worth a thousand pixels: digital photos look their best when no one can see them. (Giggle Bytes).
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- Computer User
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- August 1, 2002
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Isn't digital photography wonderful? When you see an image you want to preserve for the ages, you simply turn on your camera, hold it steady six inches from your face, adjust the zoom, click the button, and look for new batteries.
Once you import those snapshots into your computer, you can alter them with a program like PassportPhoto, creating the illusion of photographic competence. If a picture is underexposed, you can fiddle with brightness and contrast until it looks merely washed out. If it is out of focus, you can sharpen it until it looks like an acid flashback. You can even correct its gamma, which, as everyone knows, is a quadrant in the Star Trek ...