Chapter Eleven. Digital Darkroom Expert Techniques

The digital darkroom, especially when powered by Adobe Photoshop, is a wonderland for photographers and visual artists. You can do so many things to an image, that unless you have a clear goal in mind, it's easy to get sidetracked by all of the possibilities. In the last chapter we concentrated on some fundamental concepts and techniques that can be used on most digital images. In this chapter, we'll start off with essential sharpening skills and then expand our discussion of Photoshop to include some more in-depth image-enhancement techniques such as light-altering adjustments, interpretive modifications, custom black and white conversions, toning and tinting, multiple exposures, panoramas, ...

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