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title: Photo Editing
description: Photo editing encompasses the post-processing techniques used to enhance and refine digital photographs. You will understand global adjustments like contrast and exposure, local retouching, color correction, and file preparation for print or digital distribution.
category: arts-design
subcategory: photography
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/photography-photo-editing
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# Photo Editing

Photo editing encompasses the post-processing techniques used to enhance and refine digital photographs. You will understand global adjustments like contrast and exposure, local retouching, color correction, and file preparation for print or digital distribution.

## Available Resources

1 Books • 2 Courses • 4 Websites

## Websites

### 1. Cambridge in Colour

Tutorial library explaining the concepts behind digital photography and post-processing: histograms, tonal curves, sharpening, noise, colour management and printing. Explanations are camera-agnostic, so you finish understanding why an edit works rather than which button to press.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/

**Tags:** photo-editing, color-management, post-processing, digital-photography

### 2. KelbyOne

Subscription training site founded by Scott Kelby with classes on Photoshop, Lightroom and photographic technique, taught by working photographers. Courses run as structured video series, so you can follow a full retouching or workflow method end to end.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://kelbyone.com/

**Tags:** photoshop, lightroom, photo-editing, retouching

### 3. PiXimperfect

Unmesh Dinda's free Photoshop tutorial site, organised around selections, masking, compositing, retouching and colour grading. Each lesson works through a real image, so you learn the reasoning behind a technique alongside the steps.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://piximperfect.com/

**Tags:** photoshop, retouching, masking, compositing

### 4. Phlearn

Photoshop and Lightroom tutorial site with free videos and a paid pro library covering retouching, masking, compositing and colour work. Lessons are task-based, leaving you able to reproduce a specific edit on your own images.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://phlearn.com/

**Tags:** photoshop, lightroom, retouching, photo-editing

## Courses

### 1. Photoshop 2024 Essential Training

Master photo-editing in Photoshop 2024! Learn essential techniques from expert Julieanne Kost and unlock your creative potential.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.linkedin.com/learning/photoshop-2024-essential-training

**Tags:** photoshop, photo-editing, adobe, layers

### 2. Mastering Lightroom

Master photo-editing in Lightroom with Jared Platt's course! Learn to organize & enhance your photos like a pro.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.creativelive.com/class/mastering-lightroom-jared-platt

**Tags:** lightroom, photo-editing, raw-workflow, adobe

## Books

### 1. Adobe Photoshop CC for Photographers

**Author:** Martin Evening

Martin Evening's reference manual covering Photoshop's photographic workflow: raw processing in Camera Raw, layers, masking, retouching, sharpening, and color management. Readers finish able to build a repeatable editing process for their own images.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0415711754?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, arts-design, creative-arts

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