Photography for the Web

Chapter 5 Editing Your Images

Now that you’ve spent several chapters learning how your camera works, practiced taking photos, and sorted and indexed them in the photo management application of your choice, it’s time to make them look as good as they possibly can.

There are a lot of people who frown at the idea of digitally altering photos. Photography forums all over the Internet regularly erupt in flame wars, with one side proclaiming that an altered image isn’t a true photograph, while the other argues that the final image is more important than the means by which it was created. I really want to avoid encouraging that argument here. Both sides have some valid points: it’s better to get as much right in camera as possible, but if an ...