Digital dental photography. Part 9: post-image capture processing

Key Points

• Editing an image causes deterioration in quality, is complicated, time consuming, onerous and frustrating.

• Ethically acceptable alterations include correcting exposure, orientation, laterally inverting and cropping an image.

• The most popular file formats to consider are RAW data, TIFF and JPEG.

• The most expedient and eco-friendly transfer of images is via the Internet.

Abstract

Having successfully taken a digital image, the next step is deciding what to do with it. Should it be cropped, correctly orientated, manipulated, compressed, scaled, sharpened, archived (and if so, which file format is the most suitable), or even discarded? The premise of this part of our series is to answer these and other questions related to post-production of a digital image.

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