So what is photo editing, really? Simple version: you take an image and change it somehow, usually because it needs fixing or it’s not quite right for what you want to use it for. Digital photo editing just means you’re doing that on a computer instead of in a darkroom with chemicals, which is how it used to work. Cameras and scanners aren’t perfect. They never have been. You snap a photo and something’s off, maybe the lighting’s bad, the colors look weird, there’s a weird shadow across someone’s face, whatever. Designers fix this stuff using software, Photoshop being the