THE BENEFITS OF DIGITAL IMAGES OVER FILM

Using a digital camera offers many benefits that you simply don’t get with film. Digital cameras and the pictures they create have a lot of advantages in how you take the pictures, edit them, and share them with others:

―More creative control: With a digital photo, you can use your computer and photo-editing software to touch up and enhance your pictures.

―Instant, easy photo sharing: You can send an image instantaneously by attaching it to an e-mail message. Not only is electronic distribution of images quicker than regular mail or overnight delivery services, it’s also more convenient. You don’t have to address an envelope, find a stamp, or truck off to the post office or delivery drop box.

―More interesting presentations: You can include pictures in business or educational presentations that you create with programs such as Microsoft PowerPoint, or you can produce fun multimedia slideshows and burn them to a CD or DVD.

―More useful databases and household records: You can include digital images in business and household databases (as shown in this figure).
Include pictures with your business inventory to make finding items easier.

―More creative fun: Using an image-editing program, you can apply wacky special effects, paint mustaches on your evil enemy, and otherwise distort reality.

―You can turn a photograph into a work of art by using an image-editing program.