In this chapter you learned how to sharpen, crop, and straighten your images. Also you now know how to apply tonal corrections as well as turn images to black and white. This is all nice, but so far we haven't even touched AfterShot Pro's most important features: Layers and Regions!

These features together with the use of plugins give us the means for selective lossless editing of our images. Imagine to be able to heal image defects in one part, remove some obstruction in another, adjust the contrast only in certain parts of the image, but sharpen the whole image. Then imagine creating another version of the image to convert to black and white with all the other adjustments already being in place. All of this of course without any change to your precious RAW files. Sounds good? Well, read on!