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Understanding Digital Backdrops

By mayavfx on Monday, July 11, 2011 with

At the dawn of the digital photography editing era, new possibilities emerge in terms of creating and editing photographs. Before, it was only a matter of changing sizes, cutting, and cropping pictures. But now, through the development of new tools for editing photographs, we can change the appearance of the photograph as a whole.

One of these advanced methods of editing photographs is the ability to change the backgrounds, with the subject or focal point intact. Put in simpler terms and as an example, one can change the background of a person's photograph, and it's just a matter of choosing what background to choose from.

This is where digital backdrops enter the picture and opens new frontiers to photo editing technology. Basically, backdrops are high-resolution images depicting various locations (and sometimes digitally-generated images) that can be used as backgrounds for photographs. Through the use of a photo editing software, one can remove a photograph's original background and replace it with a high resolution image of one's choice.

These backdrops fun and easy to use in photo editing software, and through them, one can "transport" a particular person or thing into another place. For example, a person who is photographed in a living room can be "transported" anywhere from an outdoor scene, another country, or even in space using digital backdrops.

Using a photo editing software, one will just have to make adjustments in order to retain the subject and replace the background with backdrops. In this way, the photo becomes more creative and more interesting. In fact, edited photographs which use backdrops are so real for those who are not familiar about it or know about it.

Naturally, for a photograph to seem so real, backdrops need to be high-resolution so that it can be used for almost any photograph. Fortunately, available backdrops are the biggest in size you can get. Each one has a resolution of 6000- 4800, with 300 dpi (dots per pixel). With images that are this clear, then editing and even printing will not be difficult. The edited photograph will not have any rough, jagged, or blurred edges. It will be too clear and will seem so real, making the photo so fantastic for printing.

Having these kinds of digital backdrops, one can actually be creative in terms of editing and printing photos, taking people and things in any place at any time, provided that one has all the digital backdrops that one wants to be in.

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