Edit wildlife images

Employ a light-touch approach to picture editing to keep your pictures looking natural

Given planning and a little bit of luck, wildlife photographers will often find themselves working with perfect lighting and cooperative subjects. In theory the resulting images should need little editing, apart from perhaps tweaking the levels and tinkering with the colour balance. The key with editing wildlife photographs is to keep it simple and the aim is to try to keep them looking natural – look out of the window at real life if in any doubt about colour accuracy. Working with a calibrated monitor and a well-lit image, the process should be to check that the colours are true to life and that the contrast is optimal, and then save the image as an archive TIFF file; resist the urge to reduce noise, sharpen or enhance the saturation at…

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