Each is
listed roughly in the order that they should be applied:
- White Balance - temperature and tint
adjustment sliders
- Exposure - exposure compensation,
highlight/shadow recovery
- Noise Reduction - during RAW development or
using external software
- Lens Corrections - distortion, vignetting,
chromatic aberrations
- Detail - capture sharpening and local
contrast enhancement
- Contrast - black point, levels and
curves tools
- Framing - straighten and crop
- Refinements - color adjustments and
selective enhancments
- Resizing - enlarge for a print or
downsize for the web or email
- Output Sharpening - customized for your subject
matter and print/screen size
Note:
Clicking on any of the steps above (or scrolling down this page) will take you
to a quick summary of the most important considerations for each. Within these
sections, you can also click on links which will lead you to more in-depth
reading on each topic.
The above
steps are virtually universal, so most photo editing software should work. If
you've captured your images using the RAW file format (highly recommended), then the
order of the above steps isn't as important, since they'll be intelligently
applied when you develop using your RAW software. Otherwise it's critical that
you follow the above sequence — especially with steps involving sharpening,
resizing and noise reduction. Be careful though, extreme edits can easily cause
image posterization with JPEG files.
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