Food Photography: From Snapshots to Great Shots

6. Processing Images with Adobe^® Photoshop^®

Bringing Out the Best in Your Photographs

As digital photographers, we cannot avoid processing, or editing, our photos. The good thing is that when editing food photographs, you usually won’t use a lot of “flair” or crazy, off-the-wall editing techniques. My philosophy is to keep my photographs clean and make them look like they were not edited. Ironically, extensive editing can sometimes make a photo look as if it hadn’t been edited, but I usually use simple, basic techniques that I apply subtly.

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