Photo editing is a such a amazing thing. Some people do this as a hobby and some people do this a profession. But for this thing you must be have little bit creativity in your brain and that because it’s an creative work.

Today I’m talking about photo editing and how can you do batter in this topic. If you professional or not in this thing both need to know about this topic or if you are new in this topic you must be need  to know about his topic.

Why edits photos?

There are a few reasons why a photographer chooses to edit their photos. In general, every photographer wants to take as much as possible in-camera shoot to saves a significant amount of time otherwise he has to spend lots of time in front of the computer.

But when we take in-camera photos we face lots of issues like bad lighting situations that’s why we cannot achieve the best that we want from in-camera photos.

In-camera photos are not enough when it comes to product photos. Because product photos need to optimize and we can not get optimized photo in-camera shoot.

To solve this kind of problem photographers needs to edit their photo to get a better and amazing result that they want.

why do professional photographers edit their own photos?

 

The Advantage of using RAW Format

At this time most professional photographers prefer to shoot in RAW. There are several benefits to shooting in RAW images. The RAW image has a huge amount of color and texture details than others. It a negative so it needs to convert to another viewable format like JPG or PNGor any other format you like.

So, you might have a question in your mind that you have a high-end digital camera that can save an image ready for print or viewing, why you need to save an image in the RAW image that needs to edit?

But there is a huge problem to shoot photos and save to directly to JPG format rather than RAW. Your camera captures all this huge amount of detail from the sensor but processes it in a pre-determined way that can’t be reversed.

As a result, your camera is taking around 10% of the information from the image due to the limitations of the JPG file format. For this reason, you miss lots of detail of that image for saving it as a JPG.

On the other hand, RAW format produced high-quality image files. It captures absolutely all the data it receives from the camera sensor. That means you will get all the details from the image. And Raw format collect everything it can see. This means you can have high-quality image files to work and create the best image.

RAW format increased brightness and contains a lot more colors than JPG files. For that shooting, RAW make sure you are capturing as many colors in an image as possible.

Dynamic Range

Dynamic Range is another reason why you should shoot with the RAW format. In RAW photography you don’t have to worried about overexposed or underexposed images because RAW photography gives a range of light intensities from the shadows to the highlights. it helps to adjust over or underexposed images during editing.

How do photographers edit photos?

There are many tools in the market, but we will discuss the most popular photo editing tools with some viable alternatives.

1. Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop is still the leader of this image editing platform. Photoshop is king when it comes to image manipulation that’s why most of the photographer use photoshop.

Photoshop has a huge feature than any other editing software. Any kind of edit you want, any type of edit you want to do with your image you can do it with photoshop. You can make many layers of an image and you can also edit these layers independently. In photoshop you can get more flexibility and control over images.

If you want to do more complex work and want to add special effects to your image, then photoshop is the best tool for you. And the most important thing is that photoshop is so popular that’s why you can easily find valuable resources and tutorials online for photoshop.

2. Adobe Lightroom

Adobe Lightroom is an amazing tool. It’s like an extension of Adobe Photoshop that is mainly created for managing and editing photos that shoot on a digital camera.

Lightroom edit photos in a non-destructive way. That means when you edit your image, lightroom does not need the edits in the right way. It does not change its original image, the original image remains intact and untouched. It saves all the changes in a separate file called catalog.

If photographers have tons of images to edit and they want minimal work to edit these images the Adobe Lightroom is the best tool for the job.

3. Phase One Capture One Pro

It the big competitor of Abode in terms of photo editing. Capture  One Pro offers RAW file convention and the other thing needed for photo editing. Capture one pro save files in a catalog like a lightroom does which pretty awesome. It produces the most detailed images from RAW files.

4. Skylum Luminar

For some beginner photographers, Adobe Lightroom or Photoshop is too complicated that’s why you can try out Skylum. Fortunately, Skylum is easier than lightroom. It's a very simple and viable alternative if you don’t want to use or like adobe software.

If you want a perfect photo, then you have to edit your photo you cannot get a perfect looking photo without editing. There is something that you cannot achieve with your camera alone. The photo editing tool gives the photographers the freedom to experiment with their photos and bring their images to life and correct some of the mistakes that photographers made while shooting.

That’s makes the photographer's photo look pretty.