Chapter 3: Showing Mad Photo-Editing Skills
In This Chapter
Following the detailed editing workflow
Reducing noise
Adjusting brightness and contrast
Correcting color issues
Cloning and retouching
Dodging, burning, running, screaming
Filtering, distorting, rotating, cropping, scaling, and more
Ideally, you take care of as many issues and make whatever enhancements you can to your photos in your raw processor (see Book V, Chapter 2) or photo manager. Use your photo editor as a powerful last resort. Its job is to handle tasks that your main photo software can’t. (And to get the best start of all, visit this chapter’s “Leg up” sidebar for ideas.)
This approach applies whether you have your camera set to save raw or JPEGs. The two leading end-to-end photo solutions, Lightroom and Aperture, ...
