Summary
Wrapping up this chapter, we first looked at workflows. As you mature as an editor, you will begin to develop a style and a way of working. Coming back to the analogy of cooking, not every recipe you try will work out. Sometimes, you will ruin it, and sometimes, you will add something that didn’t work out. The same is true with photo editing. I will often try a new way of adjustment and the effect will not go my way. So, don’t lose heart… this is why we work non-destructively. To give you one last piece of advice I would say “Fail forward fast,” by which I mean to try it and see what happens... there is always the undo option.
In this chapter, you created your first workflow, and we covered the three pillars of atmospheric perspective: exposure (how light or dark an image is), saturation (how aggressively the colors are displayed in the image), and focus (varying amounts of detail closer to the viewer).
We also covered the three most...
