Chapter 5. Edit Your Photos

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Photo editing encompasses a broad spectrum. You may only need to crop a photo to focus on someone in the scene, or you may want to radically change the tone and color of the shot to match a mood or compensate for less than ideal shooting conditions. The Photos apps for OS X and iOS offer surprisingly sophisticated controls for correcting images.

I say “surprisingly” because Apple could have made the editing tools extremely basic to appeal to the widest array of customers. They didn’t. In fact, the tools in Photos for OS X are some of the best I’ve seen in terms of applying sophisticated adjustments using a simple interface. ...

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