There is no one who doesn't want to look good in his pictures. Pictures are a great way to keep all the memorable moments of our life forever with us. Whenever we take a look at our pictures, taken in the past, it brings back the old memories of our life. But as the pictures start getting old with time, they lose their shine due to gradual degradation of the paper. Sometimes, a complete picture gets lost due to destruction of its paper.

While we enjoy looking at our pictures, we hardly ever think about the art behind those amazing pictures and that art is “photo editing”. This is the art which is responsible for bringing in the originality and the elements of emotions in a picture. There are several different types of works that are covered under photo editing, which mainly include:

• Changing the original background with some new background
• Adding some clips
• Adjusting the level of brightness and contrast
• Removing any scratch, stain or dust spots from the pictures
• Adjusting the color combination
• Photo restoration
• Vector conversion
• Enhancement
• Clipping path
• Retouching
• Photo cutout

Sometimes we need to get a sharp and clear picture extracted from a damaged photograph. The extent of damage can be from fading out of the picture to accumulation of dust, scratches and various stains. This is where the photo restoration application comes in handy, which adjust different aspects (e.g. sharpness, color, brightness, etc.) of the image to make it look like a new one. Photo restoration also repairs any missing or spoiled part of a picture.

Another very good application of photo editing is photo enhancement, which can be used to transform an old photograph into a completely new and attractive photograph. It completely remodels a photograph by introducing some new elements and removing some not so popular elements of the photograph. Some major editing that is done on an old photo by the photo enhancement application include the alteration of skins, products, faces and objects, sharpness of image, change of background and exclusion of unwanted objects.

The photo enhancement application is mainly used for modeling industry, jewelry industry and in publishing and printing. It remodels a poor quality photograph to make it look like a trendy photograph. Almost all the photos that are published for public viewing or the portfolios of professional models are enhanced before their actual publication.

One of the great applications of photo editing that is used by almost all the professional photographers is photo retouching. It is mainly used for giving a professional look to a picture, such as: the portrait effect. However, this application is not for novices, as it requires lots of skills and experience on the part of an editor. An editor can use this application to add various professional features to a picture, like masking, adding texts, adding reflection effects and motions effects.

Another very good application for remodeling the pictures is vector conversion application. It is mainly used to covert a blurred or faded photograph into a hand drawn vector photo. However, it can also be used to make a vector photo of a logo, an artwork, crests, maps, cartoons, badges, stencils, etc. It is also used to print vector, raster or bitmap images on printing papers or on advertisements.

Clipping is a completely distinct application in the arsenal of photo editing. With the help of this application a photo editor can edit particular areas of the photo, while neglecting the rest of a photo. It simply works like a mask. This application makes the editing part of a photo opaque and the rest of the photo transparent, for easier manipulation.