CAMERA RAW
A camera raw file contains unprocessed, uncompressed grayscale picture data from a digital camera’s image sensor, along with information about how the image was captured (metadata). Photoshop® Camera Raw software interprets the camera raw file, using information about the camera and the image’s metadata to construct and process a color image. Think of a camera raw file as your photo negative. You can reprocess the file at any time, achieving the results that you want by making adjustments for white balance, tonal range, contrast, color saturation, and sharpening. When you adjust a camera raw image, the original camera raw data is preserved. Adjustments are stored as metadata in an accompanying sidecar file, in a database, or in the file itself (in the case of DNG format).
Camera Raw is a type of editing software included as a plug-in for Adobe Bridge and Photoshop. You will always begin the process of editing your images in camera RAW to make basic adjustments, and finish editing your images in Photoshop.
Camera Raw is a type of editing software included as a plug-in for Adobe Bridge and Photoshop. You will always begin the process of editing your images in camera RAW to make basic adjustments, and finish editing your images in Photoshop.
There are 2 ways to open your images in Camera RAW.
- While in Adobe Bridge, locate your Originals folder and use the Filter panel to choose your highest rated images that you want to edit. Select either one image or multiple images and navigate to FILE>Open in Camera Raw. The keyboard shortcut for this is Command+R.
- You may also select the images you want to edit and navigate to the icon that looks like an Aperture symbol in the top left hand corner.
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Once your image opens in Camera Raw, you window will look like this:
Click the F key to toggle to full screen mode.
Be sure to navigate to the image's histogram in the top righthand corner and turn on the clipping masks. To do this, click on the triangles on each side of the histogram. When the icon box is outlined in white, your clipping mask is ON.
Be sure to navigate to the image's histogram in the top righthand corner and turn on the clipping masks. To do this, click on the triangles on each side of the histogram. When the icon box is outlined in white, your clipping mask is ON.
Next, navigate to the blue hyperlink at the bottom of the screen and click it.
Change your settings like you see in the image below.
Space: Adobe RGB (1998)
Depth: 16 Bits/Channel
Resolution: 300 PPI
Be sure to check the box at the bottom of the window that says "Open in Photoshop as Smart Objects." We will go over Smart Objects a bit later.
Space: Adobe RGB (1998)
Depth: 16 Bits/Channel
Resolution: 300 PPI
Be sure to check the box at the bottom of the window that says "Open in Photoshop as Smart Objects." We will go over Smart Objects a bit later.
White Balance
When editing your photographs, it is a good idea to white balance your images first before moving on.