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Post-scanning digital enhancements

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Post-scanning digital enhancements

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- Photography is definitely one of my favorite creative outlets. I take a lots and lots of pictures, both for clients and just for fun. As I mentioned in my video course on photography and also in each of the books I've written about taking pictures, I've written like five of them. I have yet snap a photo that I felt was 100% ready to show straight from the camera. It just doesn't seem to work that way. Pretty much, any photo can use a little or maybe a whole lot, of exposure fine tuning, contrast boosting, color tweaking and/or spot removal. Among other things. Scans are no different. In fact, because scanners weren't really designed to capture display quality images, you should, pretty much, plan on taking all your scanned images into programs like Photoshop or Lightroom, which is where I'm at right now, in Lightroom. I'm here for some digital TLC. Let's talk about this for a few. I'm gonna be talking to you as though you know some basics about image enhancement software. But don't…

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