This article will tell you how to take, edit and finish a good picture with Clarity, color and balance.

Steps

1. Get a good digital camera with 5-6 + mega pixels.
2. Get Google’s Picasa2 software; it is a great and free piece of software to help beginning photographers touch up their photos without being too complicated.
3. Take some time to read the camera’s manual in order to benefit as much as possible from it.
4. Practice your first shots. Once you have read the manual, go outside in the evening or morning and take several normal ‘point and shoot’ pictures. You will get a different idea of the lighting from being outside at different times of the day and night.
5. Pay attention to what is around you. Before you take each picture pay attention to the background. Try to find a simple background, a white wall, green grass, clean sand, blue sky, anything uncluttered.
6. Connect your camera (or just the card) to your computer.
7. Double click each picture and click the ‘I’m Feeling Lucky’ button and if you don’t like the changes, just click ‘Undo’ and edit the picture yourself using the brightness adjuster, etc.
8. Export your pictures to a new folder and admire them.

Tips

• Always use a good, simple camera.
• Read the manual. If it is a simple camera it should come with a one page quick-read poster so you know how to use it.
• Turn off the flash and keep your hand as steady as possible.
• Learn how to take a picture using the manual setting.
• Learn how to focus the camera. As simple as this seems, many people fail to do it. You do not need to focus most cameras. They come with “autofocus”.
• Buy a quality tripod. You do not need to buy a tripod, but if you do, your pictures will be sharper.
• When buying a digital camera, make sure it has “Image Stabilization”. It will eliminate about 80% of the blurry pictures caused by not pressing the shutter smoothly or when zooming.
• If the camera has a neck strap, use it! hold the camera out so that that the neck strap is pulled as far as a can, this will prevent shaky pics

Warnings

Always use a lanyard or hand strap! This will stop you from dropping the camera.

Things You’ll Need

• Digital Camera with PC connection; optionally, a memory card reader will import your pictures a lot quicker.
• Camera Memory Card

source from: wikiHow

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