A book about colour in digital photography, written in plain language, that shows how to apply the accumulated experience of painters, film photographers and film studios when processing one's own pictures. Living Digital pays close attention to how people actually perceive colour, aiming for harmonious, expressive colour rather than a literal record of "how it really looked," and answering the question of why, not only how, to reach a given result. Pavel Kosenko explains in accessible terms why paintings look dark and how the human eye perceives colour at all, why colour in digital photographs so often looks poor when film handles the same light without difficulty, why the saturation slider is best left alone, and how to achieve rich, expressive colour without it; alongside its reflections on aesthetics and the psychophysiology of perception, the book offers concrete, practical guidance on raw conversion and the processing of digital images, aimed at beginners and professional retouchers alike.