Sleeping On It

One of the most powerful tools we have as photographers is the ability to sleep on an idea, or in this case a picture, and come back to it the next day. This is one of the real beauties of the digital darkroom - you CAN come back the next day, and pick up where you left off. Sometimes as we work on a print for a few hours, we get carried away and don't realize we have got the image way too dark or too contrasty or in an attempt to sharpen the image adequately have spoiled it. While I normally don't save images with multiple layers because of file size, it can definitely be helpful to do so sometimes, thereby protecting your ability to back off on the editing if need be.