Ch. 3 Summary

Photoshop, Bridge and Lightroom are the three main editing/viewing programs we will be using to work on our digital images. From my reading of the handbook, the most basic and important elements of Photoshop are Panels, historgram, masks, adjustment layers and filters. Adjustment layers affect color and tonal adjustments while Masks prevents adjustment from affecting an entire image. Another important tool is Smart Objects, which are layers that remember their original condition no matter the amount of editing. Bridge works as a viewing mechanism, similar to that of a contact print. Lightroom on the other hand is described as "the all-in-one tool", although I have yet to discover why. A few things that the Lightroom program entails are a Module Pick, Panels which assist in editing tasks and Filmstrip which allows access to images.