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<blockquote data-quote="WayneF" data-source="post: 443622" data-attributes="member: 12496"><p>There are many aspects of what can be called "editing", for example various radical modifications of the picture. </p><p></p><p>But that is mostly overkill, and all that most of us routinely need is the ability to "correct" the pictures we take, fixing white balance, fixing exposure, cropping to fix composition, and straightening to fix slanted images. These things are easy, only white balance needs a bit more attention. I doubt there are any "general" explanations about editing, but specific questions about problem points about specific tools are usually easily answered in the forum.</p><p></p><p>My opinion is that the best and easiest tools to do this would be in the ACR (Adobe Camera Raw) features, including as provided by PSE. This includes using ACR for working on both JPG and raw images, but raw demands proper white balance attention. PSE omits several ACR features, but it provides the basics. Lightroom would be more fully featured, and Photoshop has it all too.</p><p></p><p>Here is an introduction to finding the raw editor in PSE (again, including for work on either JPG or raw images).</p><p></p><p><a href="http://photonlab.com/photography-classes-florida/photoshop-elements-workshop/photoshop-elements-workflow-using-adobe-camera-raw-acr/" target="_blank">Photoshop Elements | Workflow | Adobe Camera Raw | Digital Photography</a></p><p></p><p>The one thing about ACR is that it is lossless editing. That means as you fix things, it only saves the list of the changes you make. It does NOT change the original image, it saves the description of the change - only the list of edits is updated. This is actually a philosophy we learn. One thing is that we can always Undo changes, even cropping, because the original is never directly modified. So if other programs view the image, they only see the original version, but ACR knows how to show you the corrected image. But this necessarily means that you have to OUTPUT a new JPG from ACR, which will include the corrections, and which other programs can then see. </p><p></p><p>This might be too much to say at first, but when you want additional changes later, you discard that last output JPG and output a new one with the newer changes. This never shifts data back and forth. Changing the edits does not have to back out the old change from the image data, it merely modifies the list of changes for the next Output (from the original version).</p><p>This is one of several strong advantages of ACR (plus it can deal with raw images too).</p><p></p><p>For example, in an image, suppose we fix white balance, exposure, straightening and cropping. But then later we decide we want a different cropping, maybe to print 8x10 instead of 4x6 inches.</p><p></p><p>If we had just saved our original JPG, we would have to start all over, and fix everything again.</p><p></p><p>With ACR, we simply change cropping (which modifies the list of changes to be output), and it retains all our other changes, and we simply output a new temporary JPG for use. Extremely easy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WayneF, post: 443622, member: 12496"] There are many aspects of what can be called "editing", for example various radical modifications of the picture. But that is mostly overkill, and all that most of us routinely need is the ability to "correct" the pictures we take, fixing white balance, fixing exposure, cropping to fix composition, and straightening to fix slanted images. These things are easy, only white balance needs a bit more attention. I doubt there are any "general" explanations about editing, but specific questions about problem points about specific tools are usually easily answered in the forum. My opinion is that the best and easiest tools to do this would be in the ACR (Adobe Camera Raw) features, including as provided by PSE. This includes using ACR for working on both JPG and raw images, but raw demands proper white balance attention. PSE omits several ACR features, but it provides the basics. Lightroom would be more fully featured, and Photoshop has it all too. Here is an introduction to finding the raw editor in PSE (again, including for work on either JPG or raw images). [URL="http://photonlab.com/photography-classes-florida/photoshop-elements-workshop/photoshop-elements-workflow-using-adobe-camera-raw-acr/"]Photoshop Elements | Workflow | Adobe Camera Raw | Digital Photography[/URL] The one thing about ACR is that it is lossless editing. That means as you fix things, it only saves the list of the changes you make. It does NOT change the original image, it saves the description of the change - only the list of edits is updated. This is actually a philosophy we learn. One thing is that we can always Undo changes, even cropping, because the original is never directly modified. So if other programs view the image, they only see the original version, but ACR knows how to show you the corrected image. But this necessarily means that you have to OUTPUT a new JPG from ACR, which will include the corrections, and which other programs can then see. This might be too much to say at first, but when you want additional changes later, you discard that last output JPG and output a new one with the newer changes. This never shifts data back and forth. Changing the edits does not have to back out the old change from the image data, it merely modifies the list of changes for the next Output (from the original version). This is one of several strong advantages of ACR (plus it can deal with raw images too). For example, in an image, suppose we fix white balance, exposure, straightening and cropping. But then later we decide we want a different cropping, maybe to print 8x10 instead of 4x6 inches. If we had just saved our original JPG, we would have to start all over, and fix everything again. With ACR, we simply change cropping (which modifies the list of changes to be output), and it retains all our other changes, and we simply output a new temporary JPG for use. Extremely easy. [/QUOTE]
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