16. THE POWERFUL FOUR—EXPLORING THE BASIC PANEL
THE FIRST FOUR sliders in the Tone section of the Basic panel can take care of an extremely large amount of processing in your pictures. If I look back at the last 50 shoots I’ve done, I can saypretty confidently that I’ve been able to edit my pictures completely with these four sliders about 80 percent of the time. And the even better news is that they’re pretty straightforward to understand and easy to use.
Exposure and Contrast—The Bottle of Water
When you make a picture, you are, in essence, making a recording of the scene in front of you. Your camera registers your scene in a file that contains ...
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