Chapter 2
Quickly Sprucing Up Shots
IN THIS CHAPTER
Choosing an image quality
Flagging photos you want to work with
Correcting brightness, contrast, and color
Making more improvements
Not every photo that comes out of the camera looks as good as it can. Some aren’t worth saving. Many of those that are can be made better with just a little effort. Touching up photos is not that hard to do, and it will improve your photography tremendously.
If you want to learn how to quickly spruce up your photos, this practical chapter is for you. I talk about how to decide what image quality settings to choose in the camera and how that decision will affect working with your photos in software. I cover how to review and flag photos, how to get started developing them, then how to make brightness and contrast, clarity, color, and many other adjustments. The chapter concludes with a look at processing photos in the camera.
Software for Sprucing Up Photos
Whether you shoot and save Raw, JPEG, or both types of images, I recommend using an application like Adobe Photoshop Lightroom to manage and quickly ...
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