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Lossless Image Enhancement Comes of Age

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As we have already seen in Chapter 2 the current state of play for photographers who want to take their image processing a little further than what is available with most dedicated raw programs involves a ‘Convert and then Edit’ approach. The conversion step is handled by a dedicated raw utility such as Adobe Camera Raw, or Lightroom, and the editing operations fall to Photoshop. But this way of working doesn’t take full advantage of the possibilities that abound in the area of non-destructive or lossless editing.

For years photographers have advocated using a non-destructive editing workflow whenever ...

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