Chapter 7. Editing and Sharing Your Work
In This Chapter
About the digital darkroom
Using Photoshop Elements and Photoshop
Filters in the digital darkroom
Cleaning up red eye
Getting rid of imperfections
Preparing photographs for the Web
Publishing photographs on the Web
E-mailing photographs
Printing photographs
Creating a slide show
If a tree falls in the forest, and no one hears it, has the tree really fallen? The digital photography version of this classic chestnut is that taking your photographs is only the first part of the process. You also have to show your photographs to others — or it's as though you had never taken the photographs in the first place.
There are three major steps involved in the process of digital photography: taking the picture, post-processing the photograph using software on your computer, and displaying the photograph to others, either digitally using the Internet or by making a print.
The bad news is that digital photographs are rarely as good as they can be without digital enhancement and retouching using software intended for this purpose — using this software can be thought of as using a digital darkroom. This is also the good news: As a digital photographer you have the panoply of tools available in your digital darkroom to retouch and enhance your digital photos.
This chapter explains the postproduction steps that are important to digital photographers: editing, organizing, and sharing photographs.
About the Digital Darkroom
Digital darkroom is a catch-all term ...
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