Easy to follow advice on the basics of fixing and optimising your photos, from resizing and cropping through to brightness, contrast, layers, colour adjustments, B&W, and how to prepare your best images for high-quality prints. This handy guide explains how all image editors provide a workspace with menu bars and toolbars for accessing the adjustments. Although their layout may be a little different, in essence most of them operate similarly and are easy to use. Photo Editing shows you the best ways to adjust and optimise your photos, including how to resize, crop, retouch, convert to monochrome, fix contrast, brightness, colour, use layers, filters, and effects. This guide shows you how to take control of the many ways to improve and perfect your photos.

CHAPTER 1 Getting started

CHAPTER 2 The Editing Toolbox

What if you make a mistake?

CHAPTER 3 Resizing and cropping

Rotating images

CHAPTER 4 Working with layers

Layer Blending modes

CHAPTER 5 Brightness and contrast adjustments

CHAPTER 6 Colour adjustments

Colour space settings

CHAPTER 7 Monochrome conversion

Shoot with monochrome in mind

CHAPTER 8 Filters and effects

CHAPTER 9 Editing raw files

CHAPTER 10 Using retouching tools