This article is an extract from the Wiley title: Digital Macro & Close-Up Photography For Dummies by Thomas Clark. For more information on this book and other Wiley titles, visit Wiley's website.

Using the Curves tool in your image editor to adjust image tones and contrast. Whereas the Levels adjustment tool in image editors is a global adjustment that acts across the entire image, when you ...

Strategies to follow when you want to produce the best quality from your inkjet printer. The histogram for the above image reveals blown-out highlights as a peak hard up against the right hand side of ...