Edit Your Puppy Picture To Ensure It Looks Good On the Web

Taking shots of our dogs to be published on the Web is a great way to boost your online popularity. There are millions of pet lovers who would love to see a lot of cute puppy and dog pictures on the Net and downloading them to add to their collection. So if you want to get started on this project to boost your online presence using your pet's good looks, here are some ideas that should put you in the right path.



Quality Photos Only

You should concentrate in providing quality to the viewers of your puppy pictures. To get some good ones in your collection to be published on the Web, you need to use a good camera to take the shots.

Having pictures developed when you are using film-based cameras can be quite expensive for a non-profit project. To cut down cost, you might want to make use of digital cameras instead with features that will help you get quality photos of your pet.

Rather than taking random shots of puppy pictures, you might want to plan out your angle, background, and maybe the costume of your pet to make it look more appealing to your online visitors.

Edit Your Photos Before Publish

Before publishing your photos on the Web, it would be best to run them in photo-editing software in order to make them compatible for Internet viewing. Here are some factors you need to consider.

1. File Size And Image Formats

Keep in mind that photos needs to be loaded first in order for it to be fully viewed on a Web browser. If the file size of your puppy picture is too big, then it might take longer to fully load on your visitor's browser. You might want to reduce the size, since raw images from digital cameras are too bulky too suit your online purpose.

You might also want to convert it to other image formats, like JPG, GIF, and PNG to achieve a smaller photo size. Make sure that your photos are not more than 300Kb to make it viewer friendly on the Internet.

2. Height And Width

There are different sizes of monitors being used today, and these monitors utilize different resolutions that fit the taste of their respective owners. It would be best to resize your puppy photos height and width so that your visitors won’t have to scroll up and down, or from side to side, just to view the whole picture. The best size would be within 800 X 600 since that is the lowest resolution of many video adapters and monitors today.

3. Image Settings

You can also improve the quality of your puppy pictures by giving them some additional effects or changing some of the settings that comes with the image. For starters, you brighten up an image when it's too dark to look at. You can even make the colors sharper to give it a boost in quality.