Chapter 5. Editing Your Photos

You found the perfect subject, you knew just how you wanted the shot to look, but the image you got doesn’t quite match the one in your head. That’s where Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Elements come in. With the help of their layers, curves, levels, and color-correction controls, you can tweak your image to perfection. This chapter will help you sort out which tool is best for the kind of doctoring your image needs and identify how much is enough, saving you from crossing that delicate boundary between amazing and disastrous results.

Or maybe you’ve got a great image, but you want something more than straight color prints—if only your photo was more like a painting, it would be incredible. This chapter will also ...

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