Blur: This is usually caused by a shutter speed that was too slow. Blur is very hard — if not impossible — to correct in the digital darkroom. Solution: Use a higher shutter speed and/or the stabilization control if your camera has one.

Under- or overexposure: Overexposure cannot be corrected in the darkroom and underexposure often leaves an image looking muddy without much contrast or snap to it. Overexposure, especially with digital photography, will leave no detail in the highlights. Solution: Bracket — that is, take a series of pictures ranging from underex-posed to overexposed. Later in the digital darkroom you can choose the best one to work with. Some digital cameras have an automatic bracket setting that will take these pictures together in a series.

Bad color balance: This happens when the automatic setting did not see the light properly. Solution: Use the custom white balance setting.

Pictures are too dark when you take them: Solution: Use the exposure compensation to lighten your images during the shoot.