I’ve been taking a close look at David DuChemin’s book “Vision & Voice, Refining your Vision in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom” and he advocates using a “zeroed” RAW file as your starting point. His logic makes some sense because why let the camera or your software determine the starting point for your final finished image. In this example, the “before” version is the RAW file with all of it’s editable data zeroed out, so this is the most absolute form of RAW data that you can start with. It’s nothing more than the information that the camera recorded at the time of capture.

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