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I am a complete novice with Elements and am making headway with my digital images by reading the manual, Mikkel Aaland’s book and this forum. However a lot of the work is mainly a trial-and-error exercise and shots in the dark. The reason for this is that I don’t really understand what the various tools are doing.
For example, what is feathering, what is dodging, how about burning? When does one use the sponge tool and when to smudge. Then there is red-eye elimination however, it doesn’t always work. What is the histogram showing? What the axes? What are tonal values, midtones…
Is there any resource that will provide the background information that I am seeking? Mikkel Aaland’s book is great at taking an existing image and correcting it. In most cases it doesn’t explain the reason for using a tool therefore unless you have exactly the same situation, you don’t know if the described technique is appropriate.
I would much appreciate any pointers.
Sri
For example, what is feathering, what is dodging, how about burning? When does one use the sponge tool and when to smudge. Then there is red-eye elimination however, it doesn’t always work. What is the histogram showing? What the axes? What are tonal values, midtones…
Is there any resource that will provide the background information that I am seeking? Mikkel Aaland’s book is great at taking an existing image and correcting it. In most cases it doesn’t explain the reason for using a tool therefore unless you have exactly the same situation, you don’t know if the described technique is appropriate.
I would much appreciate any pointers.
Sri
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