Chapter 3
Digging Deeper into Photo Editing
IN THIS CHAPTER
Fast Photoshop feature guide
Dodging, burning, sharpening, and adjusting
Cleaning, mashing up, and advanced stuff
Cautioning and encouraging
Don’t think that you have to be a total nerd to have fun editing photos in a program like Photoshop. You don’t. It helps, but you don’t have to go all in. Me? Oh, well, yes. I sometimes feel like King of the Nerds.
My enthusiasm springs partly from having so much fun using Photoshop. It’s a real creative challenge that is very rewarding. Making photos better — even after I’ve gone over them using Lightroom — fills me with a down-to-earth sense of accomplishment that I thrive on.
Have fun with this chapter. In case you can’t tell already, I’m urging you not to approach it too seriously. I share a few techniques that I use to make my good photos better in Photoshop. It’s pretty astounding what you can do. But I don’t load bad photos into Photoshop. Those shots never make it past the initial flagging phase of my operation.
Software for Editing Photos
As with the other chapters in this ...
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