ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the art of capturing and processing the image. In order to understand how this all works, and how to best take advantage of this technology, one need an understanding of how digital cameras capture light and what it means to "process" a file. Fuji is one of the exceptions in still photography, incorporating the X-Trans color filter array into many of its consumer cameras to combat an unwanted artifact in digital image processing called moir. Cameras from all the makers Nikon, Canon, Sony, Olympus, Leica and others process raw files with a specific processing technology and then apply a color profile. A basic understanding of digital capture can help us approach working in the Develop Module more comfortably and creatively, but it should also shift the way one make an exposure when shooting raw. In order for an image to be worked on in Photoshop, that image has to be processed or rasterized.
