Chapter 5, "Building a Digital Workflow," explores what it takes to build a true digital workflow that allows you to make quick work of your digital images. Because taking digital images is so cheap, you soon find you have so many more images in which you will find yourself quickly mired and spinning your wheels. This chapter is all about getting through Adobe Camera Raw as quickly as possible. Chapter 6, "Essential Photoshop Tips and Tricks," continues the work started in chapter 5 in that the biggest boost to your productivity is to accelerate it with the tips and tricks found here. As a sideline, contained here are a couple of Easter eggs in Photoshop including one honoring the late Bruce Frasier, one of the authors of this book.
Chapter 7, "Image Adjustment Fundamentals," is about tonal manipulation, the adjusting of the lightness or darkness of your images. This is what makes the difference between a flat image and one that pops out and draws you into it. Chapter 8, "The Digital Darkroom," will show you how to get the most out of adjustment layers to make your fixes instead of burning pixels. By using these techniques, you will be allowed to experiment more with little or no degradation in quality and maximum flexibility.
Chapter 9, "Making Selections," is important when silhouetting and compositing images as it is when making nondestructive tonal corrections, color corrections, sharpening, and retouching. But to do this you also have to become comfortable working with masks and channels. Chapter 10, "Sharpness, Detail, and Noise Reduction," points out that for us to have a lifelike image, it must have sharp edge definition. No matter what quality there is to your scanner or digital camera, you will lose some definition and hence lose sharpness. Here are some techniques to bring that sharpness back.
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