Does Post Production Affect Print Quality?

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If I adjust the brightness and contrast in post production, does this affect the quality of the photograph when printing, in any way?

I'm guessing if the photograph is perfect when taken would be the ideal, but I have to photoshop quite a lot normally. Not just lighting but photoshopping out un-wanted 'artefacts'.
 
If you're repeatedly saving and reopening JPEGs, the quality will degrade but if you do all the adjustments in one hit, the degradation will be minimal (as long as the final save is at maximum quality). If your shots all need significant PP for lighting etc., you'd probably be better off shooting in raw which allows more scope for adjustment.
 
I suspect that by ‘lighting’ you’re actually referring to exposure?

Either way, I think your question is better suited to post processing than studio / lighting.
 
Depends what you do and what "qualities" of the print you care about. For example brightening shadows tends to introduce noise, so are blocked out shadows higher or lower quality than slightly noisy shadows with some detail?
 
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