The Essential Digital Manipulation Manual is an in-depth resource for photographers of all levels. Clear, concise explanations demystify techniques, technologies, and processes of capturing, editing, transforming and manipulating top-quality images. The book also explores techniques that move digital manipulation from the realms of editing and enhancement to full-on image creation and digital painting. The author explores professional enhancement and correction techniques and explains digital updates to traditional, film-based darkroom techniques, and more advanced specialist techniques and finishes. Readers will benefit from a comprehensive rundown of all of the major filters found in Photoshop and other image-editing packages, as well as information on output and storage issues. The book is beautifully illustrated with photographs by Michael Wildsmith.