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Chapter 18: Image Editing​

I call this part of my work the “meditative part”, because the steps are largely the same when editing a photo session, so I can easily listen to music or an audiobook while doing the post-processing. If you are a real time saver, you can also download magazines and papers as podcasts or MP3s and do many things at once. My image editing workflow includes the follwing steps:

Converting RAW images (e.g. using Photoshop’s ​CameraRAW or ​Capture One by ​Phase One):

1. Adjust lightness

2. Increase contrast

3. Increase saturation

4. ​Remove chromatic aberrations, if necessary

5. Slight noise reduction, if necessary

Retouching:

1. Crop background (only in studio shots with white background)

2. Remove sensor spots, if necessary ...