How Digital Photography Works, Second Edition

Part 3. How the Digital Darkroom Works

CHAPTERS

• Chapter 9 How Software Changes Pixels By The Numbers 142

• Chapter 10 How Digital Retouching Rescues Family Heirlooms 162

• Chapter 11 How The Digital Darkroom Makes Good Photos Into Great Fantasies 170

I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term—meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching—there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.

Ansel Adams

It seems unfeeling to speak of converting ...