was looking at some old photos of Kate bush, Stevie Nicks, and some other celebrities photoshoots from that time period and admiring the glowy affect or the purple and red colour palette on the photos wondering how I can achieve that same effect and then I realized that they did not have online editing software or even internet but the photos still look very nice and not like raw images I usually see. This may be a dumb question, I am not a photographer and do not know much about all this stuff but I am just curious.
As a side note the things photoshop did, especially in the beginning, were based on techniques for editing in the dark room. And things like dodging and burning have retained that connection to the analogue process.
Even 100 years ago composite (adding photos together to create a different scene) photos were being created in the darkroom.
The chemicals in the darkroom were very bad for the health of photographers though. Digital makes it a much better and healthier profession.