Adobe Camera Raw, which lets you import and enhance raw images, has been a must-have tool for professional photographers right since it was first released in 2003. Applications that support Adobe Camera Raw include Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, After Effects, and Bridge. Additionally, Adobe Lightroom is built upon the same powerful raw image. Camera Raw 7.1 is now available on Adobe.com and through the update mechanism in Adobe Photoshop CS6. Camera Raw 7.1 adds new Defringe controls to help address chromatic aberration. Defringe is available as part of the Lens Correction panel. Camera Raw can also now read 16-bit, 24-bit, and 32-bit HDR files. Supported HDR formats are TIFF and DNG.
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Why use Camera Raw?
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In this chapter, you’ll learn how to open digital photos into the Camera Raw dialog (called “Camera Raw,” for short), and then use the many tabs in Camera Raw to correct your photos for under- or overexposure, blurriness, color casts, poor contrast, and other defects.
This chapter is from the book
Photoshop CS5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Photoshop CS5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide
Using the powerful controls in the Adobe Camera Raw plug-in,*you can apply corrections to your photos before opening them into Photoshop.
In this chapter, you’ll learn how to open digital photos into the Camera Raw dialog (called “Camera Raw,” for short), and then use the many tabs in Camera Raw to correct your photos for under- or overexposure, blurriness, color casts, poor contrast, and other defects.
Why use Camera Raw?
Whereas amateur-level digital cameras store images in the JPEG or TIFF format, advanced amateur and pro models offer the option to save images as raw data files, which has substantial advantages. The camera applies internal processing to photos captured as JPEG or TIFF, such as sharpening, setting the white balance, and making color adjustments. With raw files, you get only the original raw information that the lens captured onto its digital sensor, leaving you with full control over subsequent image processing and correction. Each camera manufacturer creates its own variation of a raw file. (For a further discussion of raw files versus JPEG and TIFF files, see page 61.)
These are some of the advantages to using the Camera Raw plug-in:
Camera Raw processes raw photos from most digital camera models, as well as digital TIFF and JPEG photos.
Camera Raw offers powerful controls for adjusting the exposure, color, tonal range, noise, and other characteristics of your photos, and you can monitor the corrections in a large preview.
For raw files, Camera Raw edits (stored as instructions) are saved in either a separate “sidecar” file or in the Camera Raw database. For TIFF and JPEG files, the instructions are saved in the photo file. When you open a file from Camera Raw into Photoshop, regardless of the format, the instructions are applied to a copy of the file, and the original digital file is preserved.
You can convert your photos to some standard formats (e.g., PSD, JPEG) through Camera Raw, or you can change their format in Photoshop.
Note: Don’t confuse the raw files that a camera produces with Photoshop Raw, which is one of the choices on the Format menu in the File > Save and Save As dialogs in Photoshop.
More reasons to use Camera Raw
In case you’re not fully convinced, we’ll outline some compelling reasons for using the Camera Raw plug-in instead of opening your digital photos directly into Photoshop. It offers powerful and unique controls that you won’t find in Photoshop.
Raw preview: The only way to preview a raw photo is through a raw converter, such as Camera Raw. (The image you see on your digital camera’s LCD screen is based not on the raw capture, but on the JPEG preview that accompanies the raw capture.)
Less destructive: Exposure, white balance, color, and other corrections made in Camera Raw cause less destruction to a photo than adjustment commands in Photoshop. The goal, when applying corrections, is to cause as little destruction as possible while preserving as much original data as possible.
16 bits per channel: To preserve the full tonal range of a raw photo, you can use Camera Raw to convert it to a 16-bits-per-channel file. Having more original data at the outset helps offset the data loss from image edits made in Photoshop. The end result is a better-quality photo.
Tonal redistribution: A bonus feature of Camera Raw is that it fixes a problem inherent in all digital photos: the fact that the digital sensor in a camera records data in a linear fashion. The sensor captures the existing range of tonal values in a scene as is, without skewing the data. More data is used to capture light values than dark values. A The human eye, however, is more sensitive to lower light levels than to higher light levels. That is, we’re more likely to notice when shadows lack detail and less likely to notice extra details in the highlights.
By shifting data into the midtone and shadow ranges, Camera Raw produces a photo that more closely approximates human vision. B When a photo contains insufficient data in the shadow range, tonal adjustments made in Photoshop will cause posterization and a noticeable loss of detail. With its extra data in the midtone and shadow ranges, a photo converted by Camera Raw will be better equipped to withstand those Photoshop edits.
Noise reduction and sharpening: Not to knock Photoshop, but the noise reduction and sharpening features in Camera Raw are easier to use, less destructive, and more effective than similar commands in Photoshop.
You’re halfway there: You will be able to build on the skills learned in this chapter, because the Camera Raw controls that you’ll use to correct the tonal and color balance in your photos are similar to many of the adjustment controls in Photoshop that you will learn about in later chapters (such as Levels, Curves, and Hue/Saturation).
The skinny: To correct and enhance digital photos in preparation for further edits in Photoshop, Camera Raw is an ideal launch pad.
Raw, JPEG, or TIFF?
In addition to raw files, photos that a camera saves in the JPEG or TIFF format can also be opened and edited in Camera Raw. Although more Camera Raw features are available for raw photos than for JPEG and TIFF photos, if your camera doesn’t shoot raw photos or you acquire JPEG or TIFF photos from other sources, you can still use most of the Camera Raw features to process them.
Unfortunately, Camera Raw can’t correct deficiencies in digital JPEG and TIFF photos as fully as it can in raw photos, for several reasons. First, JPEG and TIFF photos have a bit depth of only 8 bits per channel, unlike raw photos, which have a bit depth of 16 bits per channel. Second, color and tonal processing is applied to JPEGs and TIFFs by the camera (“in camera”). Camera Raw must reinterpret this processed data, with less successful results than when it has access to the raw, unprocessed data. And finally, the editing instructions are saved in the files themselves (processing is applied when the files are opened and saved in Photoshop), not in the sidecar or database file, as is the case with raw files. Nonetheless, you can use the many outstanding correction and adjustment features in Camera Raw to improve your JPEG and TIFF photos.
Note: In this chapter, we focus only on processing raw and JPEG files in Camera Raw — not TIFFs. The JPEG format is mentioned only when a particular feature treats JPEGs differently from the way it treats raw files.
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Hey every one ,today I’m going to show you how to load/Install presets and brushes into Adobe Camera Raw and this is for cs6 and the Creative Cloud (CC). How To Install Adobe Camera RAW Presets for MAC & PC
How To Install Adobe Camera RAW Presets for MAC & PC First we’re going to do it for a Mac and then we’re going to do it for PC but let’s take a look at Camera Raw right now and check out the presets . We can see there’s nothing there.
Go to the brushes and drop down this menu right here .
We can see, we do not have any brushes .
So let’s head on over to our Mac desktop and I can show you guys how to install these presets and brushes for Adobe Camera Raw.
Guide For Install Camera RAW Presets Into MAC :
Okay here we are on the Mac desktop and we have finder open right here and we have our downloaded preset Pro collection for raw right here .So let’s open up the downloaded presets folder and check it out.
How To Install Adobe Camera RAW Presets for MAC & PC
Let’s go to find our library folder in finder Now. This is a hidden folder but the best way to find it is. Go up to go and you won’t see it right here but if you hit option you’ll see it appear right there. So hold down option there we go click it and then we can go to application support>application support Adobe and we got to find Camera Raw right there and there’s our settings preset folder and local Correctionsour brush folder.
So let’s start with the settings first our presets open up our download again there’s our settings and the best way is to click shift and make sure you get everything right down at the bottom and you can copy it right there and click in here and you can paste it right in.
So now we can go to local Corrections and this is our brush folder right here and we go to local Corrections here and make sure you click and we want to shift click all the way down and we’re going to just copy all these right here copy and back into here local Corrections and we’re going to paste all of our brushes right in there.
You go alright now. I have Adobe Camera Raw. Open again let’s go to the presets check it out and there we go there’s all our presets loaded in.
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So now we can check out the brushes go down here and drop it down and there’s all our adjustment brushes.
So we did that .
Guide For Install Camera RAW Presets Into PC (Windows) :
Now we can move on to PC and I’m going to show you guys how to load all the presets and brushes into Windows PC.
All right. Now we’re going to install Camera Raw presets into a Windows PC machine and here we have our windows.
Open right here and the best thing you can do is find your name of your computer whatever you’ve called it your folder where you have all this information here. Now you’re looking for app data .
A lot of the times you can’t find this folder because it’s hidden. So what you need to do is click alt and this is Windows 7 you go to tools folder options and go to view and show hidden files folders and drives. Make sure that’s clicked hit OK and this is the same in the new versions of Windows .Except it’s going to have a menu at the top where it’s just a different layout it’s under view and that’s where you can show hidden files and folders.
How To Install Adobe Camera RAW Presets for MAC & PC So now that we have that clicked ,we can see we do have app data right here.
So now we can get started .Okay so now if we click app data we can go into roamingand then we find Adobe and there’s our camera RAW. So we click that double click into there and there’s our settings folder.
So right now it’s empty
and we have our download on our desktop right here and this is where you can open it up there’s our settings folder and we’re going to do the same thing shift and clickand we’re going to copyall these items and we’re going to paste them right here there (Presets Folder).
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We go all right now the top menu we can go back to Camera Raw and now we can find our local Corrections folder right here we go back into our download local Corrections these are the brushes and we just want to copy allthese and we’re going to pastethem right here local Corrections folder .
There you go. Local Corrections those are then brushes .So let’s go into Camera Raw Presets and we can see again and go back and we can see local Corrections we’ve got all our brushes .
How To Install Adobe Camera RAW Presets for MAC & PC So that’s it. That’s how to load into windows and PC machines you might want to restart Photoshop and Camera Raw hope you guys enjoy this post.
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