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IMAGE ENHANCEMENT

Capturing a photo is just the beginning: if you use Raw, you can process your

photos in countless ways. Having a clear idea of what you want to achieve when

you start enhancing photos postproduction will save time later, but you can go
back to Raw files months or even years after shooting. Personal tastes change over

time, so you may often find yourself working on old photos as well as current ones.

Postproduction software

There are two types of postproduction software TETHERED CAPTURE
available. Straight image-editing packages, such as Some postproduction software lets you send captured
Adobe Photoshop, essentially restrict you to working photos straight to your computer—a technique known as
on one photo at a time. They offer few (if any) tethered capture. Being able to view your photos on the
image-management tools, and once you have larger screen makes tasks that require composition or
close attention much easier. Also, as soon as an image
completed editing a photo, it is saved as a “finished” has been shot, it is transferred straight to your computer’s
file (unless you make and work on a copy of the hard drive, where you can process
photo). Database-driven “workflow” packages, such it immediately.
as Adobe Lightroom, enable you to edit images, but
also provide options for you to manage your photo
collection, add keywords, and even geo-tag your
photos. A key advantage of this software is that all of
the edits that you make are nondestructive—they
are stored in the database rather than being applied
directly to the imported photo. The edits are only
applied to the exported file. This also applies to
JPEGs that have been imported.

SUGGESTED WORKFLOW

IMPORT BACK UP MANAGE AND ASSESS
To import photos, connect your Always back up your photos to an Adding keywords and a description
camera and computer via a USB cable, external hard drive to reduce the to photos can help you track them
or by using a card reader. How long risk of losing data. Better still, keep a down later. Most workflow editing
this takes depends on the read/write backup hard drive and swap them software has label-adding options,
speed of the memory card and the regularly. Cloud storage is good for which you can use to sort your
USB specification of your computer. storing smaller files, such as JPEGs. photos into categories.

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