I strongly recommend starting out with a well-defined workflow for editing digital images in Photoshop. Since Photoshop has so many different options, it’s almost impossible to keep track of how to perform all of them. The workflow structure helps you tighten your focus on key tasks during each individual stage as you move through the editing process. Even after working with Photoshop for many years, I use this workflow to help me organize my editing process.

The Workflow Outline

The complete workflow has dozens of different tasks. To simplify I’ve broken the overall workflow into a series of stages. Each major workflow stage has about three ...

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