ABSTRACT
One of the most interesting promotional items created for the book "The Photographer's Digital Studio" was a cartoon drawn by the brilliant artist John Grimes which showed trays of developer, stop, fix, and wash, with floppy disks being dipped in and out of each one. The caption was "A common mistake in digital photography." Part of the reason that some people even ask the question "why digital?" is that many believe digital imaging is somehow different from traditional photography. Since photography began, portrait photographers have used various photograph techniques, from retouching negatives with pencils and dyes to applying artwork, and even airbrushing prints to improve on nature's little imperfections. Repairing old faded and damaged photographs used to be the province of the specialist artist. For new photographers, or those not familiar with darkroom work, burning is a term for selectively darkening part of an image to hide a distracting element or bringing out something hidden by highlights.
