With the proliferation of digital cameras, more people are taking more pictures. People are snapping pictures of children, nature scenes, sports and special events at an increasing rate. Cellular phone cameras are bettering quicky. These digital images can be used to create customized artwork that will help preserve your memories. In Search of an ideal Picture An ideal picture may seem to be elusive for an amateur photographer, but perfect occasions happen all the time. Perhaps your toddler is just learning to walk or Junior steals second base. These can be perfect moments. Instead of try to list them, let's just say that a perfect moment is whatever you define it to be. Getting a perfect picture of this moment is elusive at best. The average amateur digital photagrapher faces problems that belie the advertising of digital cameras as effortless, one-step devices that cannot take a bad shot. Don't assume all picture you take with an electronic camera is a masterpiece. Many of your digital images do have redeeming value though. Many digital pictures look dark or blurry and an odd color. There is a limit to the amount of improvement that may be accomplished, but most digital images can be improved. With patience and a bit of practice, even beginning photographers can improve their skills. A steady camera, a little reading about compostion and most importantly, patience, will produce pictures that, perhaps not destined for the Louvre, will call to mind that perfect moment and help retain the precious memory. Can This Picture be Saved? A modern digital camera can do a lot of the task for you. It cannot aim itself, but it is quite capable of focusing and judging the amount of available light. Still, the most frequent problem with digital images is lighting. Images often appear dark and discolored. Though these images may be less than perfect, they often times contain an amazing amount of image information. There are numerous software applications available that can brighten up these images and perform somewhat of color correction. Oftentimes, a dark, discolored image may turn out well if adjusted properly. This is area of the beauty of portrait digital photography technology. What is the main topic of This Image? Once you snap a graphic with your digital camera, you know the subject of the shot. Sometimes, when you go through the image later, the main topic of the shot is not so obvious. That's where image cropping becomes valuable. Cropping allows you to eliminate the extraneous areas of the image and emphasize the subject. Again, many software applications exist that will help you perform this. Cropping may transform a mediocre image into a family hierloom. Image Quality and Stretching Digital cameras come in many resolutions. Resolution identifies the amount of pixels a camera use to store a digital image. More pixels, more quality. See www.bhphotovideo.com/FrameWork/charts/resolutionChartPopup.html to see a chart that will provide you with some information about resolutions and print quality from bhphotovideo.com. As the chart suggests, images that you would like to print in a more substantial size will suffer quality degradation because they are stretched. Poster layout, as provided by Pix2Posters.com allows enlargement of images with sensitivity to quality. Inclusion of several images into a piece of artwork allows top quality images to transport the visual load while less than perfect images of perfect occasions jog the memories of those happy times. Use Your Own Photography OK, you practiced your photography and now own several images that have meaning in your life. What next? Work with pix2posters.com to help you create unique artwork from your own digital images. Artwork based on your own memories can last a lifetime and be a cherished part of your home.