Chapter 4. Editing Essentials: How to Develop Your Photos

Editing Essentials: How to Develop Your Photos

Exposure: 1/8000

Focal Length: 70mm

Aperture Value: ƒ/4.0

Everything we have done up to this point—every click of a button, every slide of a slider, every drag of a dragster—has all been leading up to this one single moment. The moment when you leave the relative safety and comfort of the Library module and venture into a wild, untamed territory that many seek but only few survive. This, my friends, is the Develop module—a scary and intimidating place with more complicated-looking buttons, checkboxes, and sliders than the Space Shuttle and a 747 combined. Now, if you’re thinking that all this ...

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