Photoshop CC and Lightroom

Introduction

In some ways, digital technology has fundamentally changed photography and printing. Photographers have almost unlimited options to achieve the precise image that they intend. Printing has become infinitely more flexible and pushed closer to the control of the image creator—you. The level of control at our disposal now exceeds even some of the most powerful darkroom techniques used in the past. This power and flexibility is dazzling, even confusing, to many.

The Adobe Photoshop products are some of the most complex programs many of us will ever use. There is a reason “Photoshop” has become a verb. Despite that, my goal is to present them in a reasonably accessible way. Although we are provided with thousands of complex techniques ...