ABSTRACT
T he aim of this chapter is to introduce you to the basic Photoshop image adjustments. Since this is what you are going to be doing to every picture you edit in Photoshop, it is worth spending some time understanding the underlying principles of what the adjustment tools do. When I fi rst started writing about Photoshop, one could assume that most images would have been brought in from a scanner and had originated as rendered pixel images. These days, a lot of photographers will be shooting digitally and therefore may be starting out with a raw capture fi le. In this chapter I am going to focus on basic pixel image processing only and in the following chapter I will be showing you the alternative way to process camera capture images, using Camera Raw.
