Digital Darkroom Basics Let You Make The Most Of Your Camera Files And ScansThe digital darkroom has become a part of every photographer’s life. Photography now pretty much means digital photography to most people. Even when shooting film we still often want to make our own inkjet prints or fine tune the colors or share the image by e-mail. Scanning film or prints to create an image file is just as digital as using the latest digital camera. Everyone involved in taking pictures is well served by knowing at least the basics of digital image editing. What happens to all those files after they are edited(maximized) is important, too. We must be able to find them again for future use. We need to understand how to prepare a file for e-mail or for use on a web site. Creating our own monitor wallpaper and holiday cards and business cards are all possibilities that can be accomplished with just a few basic pieces of knowledge. If you are a more serious photographer, it is really more of the same. You will want to have larger hard drives for storing more image files and a faster computer for processing larger files and a better monitor and printer for better control of color but it all a matter of degree. Everyone starts with the basics and then goes on as far as they feel necessary. I like to control my own photos, from camera to print and any other uses. When I used film, I had a chemical darkroom for processing and printing. I experimented with different films, developers and printing papers and settled on a few combinations that I liked for different shooting situation. The digital photography world is just like that. Optimize your camera settings for two or three ISO speeds, work out a basic digital “development” for each of those settings and find a few inkjet papers that make prints you like from your printer. Then you can settle down and just be a photographer again! New pages addressing the different aspects of the digital darkroom will be added regularly to provide the information you need to make the most of your digital image files. Whatever the final purpose of your files, this is the place to check for tips on how to do it.
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