Question

What are the differences between editing manually and editing digitally? What tools are used for each?

Answer 1

Answer:

Both manual and digital editing are concepts used in proofreading.

Manual editing is also called "hard proofreading" (or "hard proofing" for short). It is the process of proofreading, modifying or revising printed documents. In this type of proofreading, one would normally manually mark parts of the printed documents with editing materials such as ink, pen, marker e.t.c

Digital editing is also called "soft proofing". In contrast to manual editing, this type is done on digital documents. These documents include, but not limited to, DOC, txt, PDF, image, audio and video files.

Tools for editing manually are;

i. pen

ii. ink

iii. tipex

Tools for editing digitally are;

i. Photoshop application

ii. Text editors such as notepad++, Microsoft word