PHOTOGRAPHING CHILDREN PHOTO WORKSHOP

Chapter 10. POST-PRODUCTION AND PRESENTATION

• Establishing Your Workflow

• Getting Started with Image Editing

• Image-Editing Workflow

• Basic Retouching

• Changing Colors for Impact

• Cropping Tips

• Presentation Gallery

Capturing the image with your camera has always been just the first step in creating a final image. In the film days, the darkroom became the next step to apply your creativity to an image. Today, your darkroom is digital and there are more possibilities than ever before.

This chapter encourages you to experiment and play with your images. It's like doodling: The more you play, the more you see what you can do with your images, which enables you to find styles that appeal to you.

ESTABLISHING YOUR WORKFLOW

Post-production is the term photographers use to indicate everything that happens after the image is captured. That includes loading your images from your media card to your computer, playing around in an image-editing program, all the way to the final printed image hanging on your wall. There are a lot of steps to get you from here to there and each photographer has his or her own, unique way of working, which is called workflow. Workflow is defined by Wikipedia.com as a reliably repeatable pattern of activity.

A good, consistent workflow is critical for digital photographers. Everything is a digital file that can be easily deleted, corrupted, or just plain lost! So, establishing an ...