Post-Production Work Flow - The Essentials Pros Use to add the finishing touches to their work...

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This article summarizes the most important steps to incorporate into your digital photo editing workflow (aka "post-processing workflow"). It isn't necessarily a procedure that you'll want to implement with all of your photos, but whenever you want to get that "keeper" looking just right, these steps can make all the difference. See the link below for more details.

Each is listed roughly in the order that they should be applied:
White Balance - temperature and tint adjustment sliders
Exposure - exposure compensation, highlight/shadow recovery
Noise Reduction - during RAW development or using external software
Lens Corrections - distortion, vignetting, chromatic aberrations
Detail - capture sharpening and local contrast enhancement
Contrast - black point, levels and curves tools
Framing - straighten and crop
Refinements - color adjustments and selective enhancments
Resizing - enlarge for a print or downsize for the web or email
Output Sharpening - customized for your subject matter and print/screen size

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