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The late 1980’s and the personal computer became an affordable reality for everyone. Everything changed, the
digital camera almost overnight replaced film and video cameras. By the mid 1980’s the digital camera was so

small it could be housed into the mobile phone. Film and the one hour photo industry were now under serious

threat. Some film photographs are still taken by professional photographers to produce high definition prints for
fine art.

The digital image (Photograph) is downloaded directly from the camera to the personal computer as a digital

file. Adobe Photoshop software is the perfect tool for manipulating digital image files. Every digital image file is
a collection of binary numbers. Each binary number represents a pixel, each pixel is a fraction of a square inch

of a photograph. The more pixels to the square inch the finer the grain creating a higher resolution of the image.

Once the file is complete all the numbers are read by the maths processor and displayed as a full image in a
fraction of a second.

The Adobe Photoshop software makes it possible to overlay many image files; Similar to two negatives in an
enlarger to create a double exposure. However, with digital files (photographs) it is possible to overlay

multiple digital files,(photographs), add or delete sections from each of the digital photographs then flatten them

all to create a single photograph containing all the parts you want visible in the finished photograph.