OVERVIEW: TOP 10 POST-PROCESSING STEPS
Each is listed roughly in the order that they should be applied:
- White Balance - temperature and tint adjustment sliders
- Exposure - exposure compensation, highlight/shadow recovery
- Noise Reduction - during RAW development or using external software
- Lens Corrections - distortion, vignetting, chromatic aberrations
- Detail - capture sharpening and local contrast enhancement
- Contrast - black point, levels and curves tools
- Framing - straighten and crop
- Refinements - color adjustments and selective enhancments
- Resizing - enlarge for a print or downsize for the web or email
- Output Sharpening - customized for your subject matter and print/screen size
