ABSTRACT
A photographer I worked for once told me ‘learn the tricks of the trade first, and art will find its course’. Photoshop is certainly a complex program to learn, but as you begin to understand it in depth, this acquired knowledge will give you the freedom to solve all sorts of technical challenges and the talent to express yourself photographically. This chapter is all about the process of capturing a digital image before it is brought into Photoshop and provides an updated account of the latest camera and scanning equipment. It is very relevant to everything else you do in Photoshop, because everything begins with the creation of an image and how you capture that image matters greatly, especially from a technical standpoint. Because the better the image is to begin with, the easier it will be to manipulate later.
