Image editing is the overall term for numerous techniques and tools used to process digital images. They can be edited in order to correct mistakes, to highlight special features or create artistic effects.

Image editing is often used in order to correct mistakes or highlight special features of an image or object.

In digital image editing the term retouch stands for the subsequent, in most cases final, editing of an image. Retouch techniques can eliminate various deficiencies and get the most out of every picture.

Digital post-processing of images provides satisfactory optimization results when pictures that are too bright, too dark or appear pale and matte. There are various ways to improve brightness, saturation and contrasts.

Masks help to select specific picture areas and edit our or fade down others, in other words to edit single sections of an image separately from eacht other. Masking paths define an object for further editing and are used for creating different coloured versions, clipping or montage.

Masking paths are a helpful tool in digital image processing as they make it possible to edit an image without permanently altering the original image. Therefore, they are gladly used in the creative process to try out different possiblities.

Photomontages are based on the technique of collage. Several images are put together to create a new one. For instance, one can give a new message to an image by integrating another motif or object.