David: that's probably not the beat way to do things if you want to keep the original quality of the image. When you save in JPEG you will lose info from the file. Everytime you resave as jpeg you are downgrading the quality of the image. The best thing to do is to use a RAW editing program like the ones mentioned in my article to make your adjustments. If you do things this way then you are not actually manipulation the file, you are manipulating a "recipe" for the file that will be used when exporting to JPEG. If you don't get a RAW editing program to work with then the best thing to do would be to save your file as a TIFF or a PSD and edit away until you are done and then convert to JPEG. That way you can retain the file's original quality and convert to JPEG only once. Hopefully that helps.
And, I didn't want the images side by side. I didn't want to use images at all but DT requires that all blog articles have at least one DT image so I had to use something and I decided I would just show off some of my work.
Thanks for all the reads and comments. The community here is great! posted in RAW vs JPEG
David: that's probably not the beat way to do things if you want to keep the original quality of the image. When you save in JPEG you will lose info from the file. Everytime you resave as jpeg you are downgrading the quality of the image. The best thing [