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No single technique or tool will improve your photos on its own, but mastering the use of many techniques and tools can certainly help you together. Learning to use and correctly interpret a histogram is just one piece of the puzzle when it comes to digital photography. It can help you figure out how to expose for difficult situations, and reduce the amount of images you end up tossing in digital post-processing. For those of you who shoot film, don't feel left out; you can still take advantage of the histogram on a digital camera if you use it to check your exposure before taking a shot. Whatever the medium, a digital histogram can be a useful tool when it comes to getting correct exposures.