6 Global and Selective Adjustments

Global image adjustments are edits to the image that are applied to the entire image. Global image adjustments are the foundation of editing an image and are essential to determining the overall look and feel of the print.

Selective image adjustments are edits that are not applied to the entire image but instead are applied to only some localized portion of the image. Selective image adjustments are equally essential as global ones in taking an image to the next level, particularly for print.

Countless types of edits can be performed in Lightroom and Photoshop, and we will not even attempt to cover all of them. Instead, we’ll focus on the types of edits that we need to address most frequently in the context ...

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