October 2007 Archives

Fay writes,

"Please advise best sequence for working with a digital image, download from camers and proceeding to -- 1. Change PPI 2. Crop 3. Resize 4. Sharpen, Contrast, etc."

Also, apologies to Trevor who wrote with a similar question while I was redesigning the site,

"What is your typical work flow with regards to editing photos?"

These are great questions because, depending on what software you use, performing these steps in the wrong order can make your life more difficult and cost you a lot of time. To begin, let's divide our post-processing into three stages that I'll call acquisition, editing, and output.