Chapter 10. Make Photographic Prints

Even though taking pictures with a digital camera makes it easy to share photos electronically — on a Web page, as an e-mail attachment, or on a computer or TV screen — a photographic print on paper is still what photography is all about to many people. You can make photo-quality prints from digital photo files in many ways, including printing them on a desktop photo printer, ordering prints from an online photo-printing service, or using a local photo-processing lab.

Before you are ready to make prints, however, you may need to perform some basic image processing to get the best results. The workflow described in Chapter 8 strongly affects the appearance of a print. To make prints that are more predictable, ...

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