Ten. Making Major Adjustments in Photoshop

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After you’ve made basic adjustments in Lightroom, you’re ready to break out the big guns and make more serious adjustments using Adobe Photoshop. That is, assuming that your photos actually need major adjustments. I estimate that only about 10 percent of my images require major corrections, but it all depends on the environment you were shooting in and how much time you want to spend on a single image to achieve a particular look. The options for manipulating your photos in Photoshop are endless. Although I’ve gone overboard in the past, I now focus primarily on one aspect: ensuring that viewers are focusing ...

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