The Fine Art Printing Process

Step 3
Next, I perform my image corrections on separate adjustment layers. I want to make the sunshine (a rare thing in Scotland in the fall!) more prominent and darken the clouds behind the castle to make the castle appear brighter. The image on the top (at right) is the original file without corrections. The image on the bottom, along with the Layers palette, shows the corrections I've made. At this point, I will save this layered file as my master image. This file can be reused to print on different media or can be flattened, resized, and used on the Internet. The rest of the changes I'll make to the image are print-specific, so I don't want to save them as part of my master file.

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