Learn about Straightening and Cropping
Cropping and straightening use to be done during the printing process before digital photography came along. The photographer would adjust the enlarger, magnifying the image enough to put the unwanted element off the printing paper, or move the easel holding the printing paper in a way that horizontal and vertical lines would be parallel to the paper’s edges.
Learn About Dodging and Burning
Dodging and burning are options in a quality photo editor. But these are methods of manipulating a photograph invented many years ago by photographers in their darkrooms.
Digital Workflow in Six Steps
Back in the days before digital photography you had to develop your film and photographs in a darkroom. Like an assembly line, each image went through a series of steps for developing the film, or transparencies, to the final printed image. You won’t use a darkroom with digital photography, but you do want to keep that assembly line idea in mind and process each image you capture through the same steps. That process is called “workflow”. [...]
