A Sampling of Elements Editing Ideas
Recovering Shadow and Highlight Details
iPhoto does shadow and highlight recovery (page 62); Photoshop does it better, providing finer control and better quality—especially if you shoot raw.
The Power of Layers
One of the best reasons to use Photoshop is a feature called layers. In Photoshop, an image can have multiple layers, and each layer can contain imagery or image-correction information. By using layers, you can make dramatic modifications to an image without ever altering the original data. This not only gives you more editing flexibility, it helps preserve image quality.
One particularly powerful use of layers involves selective lightening and darkening: changing the brightness of part of a photo without ...
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