Editing

Many computer programmed can be used to edit photographs in order to enhance them or touch them up to remove imperfections. Photoshop is the most popular of them and this gives the user a wide array of options to improve their photos. Filters such as greyscale and sepia can completely change the first impressions of an image and they are accompanied by tools such as smudge and blemish which allow the user to blend undesirable parts of images. Photoshop can also be used to merge images together to create a more artistic outcome. For example you could blend an image of a flower with a bomb for extreme contrast and this would allow the photograph to have a much stronger impact than if the images were two separate photographs.

Other software can also be used. Iphoto is a similar editing suite for Mac. Although it is extremely limited in comparison to Photoshop, it still offers a strong array of options to edit photos such as filters and borders. Some photographers would argue that editing is "cheating" and that your photo should be as pure as when you took it, but more and more professional photographers are using image editing software as soon as the image is taken. In photography studios it is common to find that the cameras are directly plugged into Photoshop to allow for tinkering on the fly.
Regardless of what software you choose to do it on, editing is a core component of many people's photography and the vast amount of options that the programmes offer allow the user to create more visually appealing images.

I really enjoy editing. It gives me the option to change and enhance my photography in order to increase the impact of the photo. However I do not like changing photographs hugely as I feel it is cheating to some extent.