Photoshop CC and Lightroom

Capture

This book predominantly focuses on post-capture workflow. However, I will make a few suggestions on ways to capture images to make that workflow work.

Shoot Raw

By choosing raw, you give yourself every bit of data that your sensor captured. With any other choice, some assumptions are made as to how the image will be “developed.” See your user guide to set your camera to raw.

Photojournalists sometimes have a need to capture in a mode that some cameras offer called raw+JPEG. This way, they can upload the smaller JPEGs to their publisher(s), but still have the valuable raw data to process more carefully later. Most users don’t need the added JPEG.

Lens Profile Creator

Adobe provides this free companion application via adobe.com that ...