When delving into photo or video editing, numerous software options exist for selection, including Lightroom, Photoshop, Davinci Resolve, and Premier Pro, among others. These applications provide a broad spectrum of tools that can enhance and refine the visual appeal of your creative outputs.

Elementary adjustments range from altering brightness, contrast, highlights, shadows, to whites and blacks. There's also the option to tweak the color temperature, saturation, and vibrancy of your images, empowering you to craft unique visual aesthetics and styles. Additionally, features such as texture, clarity, dehaze, and vignetting can be applied to your photos or videos.

If it's the fine details you wish to adjust, tools that sharpen or reduce noise and color noise are at your disposal. The geometry of your work can be manipulated through straightening, rotating, or adjusting its aspect ratio. Classifying your work into folders and albums aids in maintaining a well-organized record of specific shoots and themes.

On exporting your creative outputs, it's important to consider file size and quality, as well as the level of output sharpening required for the target device or medium. Your work can be exported in a variety of dimensions and file formats, depending on the platform you're using, and you can even incorporate metadata or adjust the color space to suit your requirements. By mastering these fundamental tools and techniques, you'll be well-equipped to create and edit visually striking pictures and videos.

Editing

Programs I use Lightroom, Davinci resolve,

Brightness: contrast, highlights, shadows, whites, blacks

Color: cold tones, warm tones, greens, purples, vibrance, saturation

Effects: texture, clarity, dehaze, vignetting

Details: sharpness, noise reduction, color noise

Geometry: distortion, rotation, aspect, straightening

Organizing: folders to organize specific shoots and themes (like dogs, water, buildings, nature, etc..)

Exporting: export options are; quality to change the file size, dimensions to change pixel length, metadata, file naming, output sharpening for phone screens or prints like matte or glossy, color space (srgb is the default, pro photo RGB output for magazines)

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