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Movie 2 Camera Raw Image Processing Adobe Photoshop CS3 for Photographers by Martin Evening ISBN: 0-240-52028-9 (old style ISBN) ISBN: 978-0-240-52028-5 (new style ISBN) Adobe Photoshop CS3 for Photographers is published by Focal Press, an imprint of Elsevier. The title will be available from May 2007. Here are four easy ways to order direct from the publishers: By phone: Call our Customer Services department on 01865 474010 with your credit card details. By Fax: Fax an order on 01865 474011 By email: Send to [email protected] By web: www.focalpress.com. Orders from the US and Canada should be placed on 1-800-545-2522. By email: [email protected]. The title will be stocked in most major bookstores throughout the UK and US and via many resellers worldwide. It will also be available for purchase through the online bookstores www.barnesandnoble.com, Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk. Martin Evening Adobe Photoshop CS3 for Photographers www.photoshopforphotographers.com Closing Bridge as you open Working with Camera Raw and Bridge If you hold down the O A key as you The mechanics of how Photoshop and Bridge work double-click to open a raw image, this will together are made as simple as possible so that you can close the Bridge window as you open the open single or multiple images or batch process images Camera Raw dialog. quickly and efficiently. Figure 1 summarizes how the linking between Bridge, Photoshop and Camera Raw Opening JPEGs via ACR in Bridge works. As well as the Photoshop File Handling Central to everything is the Bridge window interface, preference: ‘Prefer Adobe Camera Raw where you can browse, preview and make selections of for JPEG files’, there is also a Bridge which images you want to process. The way most people Thumbnails preference: ‘Prefer Adobe are accustomed to opening images is to select the desired Camera Raw for JPEG and TIFF Files’. thumbnail icon (or icons) and either double-click, use the When this Bridge preference option is File ➯ Open command, or the Co Lo shortcut. checked, thumbnails generated in Bridge The way things are set up in Bridge, all of the above will instruct Bridge to open JPEG and methods will open the selected raw image (or images) TIFF images via Camera Raw. But any via the Camera Raw dialog hosted by Photoshop (if the thumbnails that were generated while image is not a raw file, it will open in Photoshop directly). this option was switched off, will mean Alternatively, you can use File ➯ Open in Camera Raw... that these JPEG and TIFF images will or use the Cr Lr shortcut to open the images via not open in Camera Raw, but open via the Camera Raw dialog. In these instances, Bridge will host Photoshop instead (even though you had Camera Raw and allow you to perform batch processing the ‘Prefer Adobe Camera Raw for JPEG operations in the background without compromising files’ switched on in the Photoshop File Photoshop’s performance. If the ‘Double-click edits Handling preferences). One way to resolve Camera Raw Settings in Bridge’ option is deselected in this is to make sure that both options the General Bridge preferences, S double-clicking will in Photoshop and Bridge are checked allow you to open an image or multiple selection of images and use the Tools ➯ Cache ➯ Purge in Photoshop directly, bypassing the Camera Raw dialog. Cache command to clear the thumbnail Opening single raw images via Photoshop will be cache settings for a particular folder. This quicker than opening them via Bridge. Opening multiple action will zap any previously generated images via Photoshop will take about the same time, but thumbnail cache settings and force Photoshop will consequently be tied up managing the Bridge to generate new thumbnails, and Camera Raw processing. The advantage of opening via these thumbnails will have the desired Bridge is that Bridge can process large numbers of raw preference of opening the JPEG and TIFF files, while freeing up Photoshop to perform other tasks. files via Camera Raw. And in case you are And you can toggle between the two programs. So for wondering, this is my attempt to provide example, you can be processing an image in Camera Raw a simplified summary of the official while you switch to viewing another image in Photoshop for guidelines on Bridge/Photoshop Camera comparison with the one you are editing in Camera Raw. Raw JPEG/TIFF file opening. Movie 2 Camera Raw image processing Single image opening Multiple image opening Double-click Double-click Co Lo Co Lo File ➯ Open File ➯ Open Cr Lr Cr Lr Single image opening Multiple image opening Figure 1 You can open single or multiple images via Camera Raw hosted by Photoshop, using a double-click, File ➯ Open or Co Lo. Photoshop is ideal for processing small numbers of images. If you use Cr Lr, Bridge will host the single or multiple Camera Raw dialog. Opening via Bridge is better suited for processing large batches of images in the background. Martin Evening Adobe Photoshop CS3 for Photographers www.photoshopforphotographers.com Deleting images Image browsing with Camera Raw As you use Camera Raw to edit your shots, In multiple view mode, the Camera Raw dialog also be the D key can be used to mark images used as a magnified view image browser. You can match to be sent to the trash later. This will place the magnification and location across all selected images to a big red X in the thumbnail and can be check and compare details, inspect them in a sequence and undone by hitting D again. apply ratings to selected images. Selecting rated images only 1 If you have a large folder of images to review with a sequence of images, the Camera Raw dialog can be configured to provide a synchronized, magnified view of If you C L-click on the Select All all the selected pictures. The dialog is shown here in a compacted mode, but you can button, this will select the rated images click on the Full Screen mode button (circled) to expand the dialog to fill the screen. only. This means that you can use the ratings to first select the images you are 2 I clicked on the first image in the sequence and clicked on the Select All button. I then used the zoom tool to magnify the image. This action will synchronize the zoom interested in editing and then use the view display for all selected images in the Camera Raw dialog. You can also use the above shortcut to make a quick selection hand tool to synchronize the scroll location for all the images. of just these images. 3 Once this has been done you can deselect the thumbnail selection and then start inspecting the photographs. This can be done by clicking on the file navigation controls or by using the ÒÂ keyboard arrow keys to progress through the images one by one. You can then mark your favorite pictures by using the usual Bridge shortcuts: C> L> will progressively add more stars to a selected image. C< L< will progressively decrease the number of stars. Movie 2 Camera Raw image processing Client: Anita Cox. Model: Jennifer Muller @ Nevs. Martin Evening Adobe Photoshop CS3 for Photographers www.photoshopforphotographers.com Auto tone adjustments Camera Raw preferences Camera Raw has the useful ability to The Camera Raw preferences can be opened by choosing apply auto tone corrections. Just click on Bridge CS3 ➯ Camera Raw Preferences... clicking on ‘Auto’ any time you want to auto correct the Open Preferences button in the Camera Raw dialog, an individual image, or use the Cu or using the Ck Lk shortcut while in the Camera Lu shortcut. You can also have Auto Raw dialog. Let’s look at the General section first. I set as a Camera Raw preference (see suggest you have the Camera Raw image settings saved Figure 2). When this is checked, any image as sidecar ‘.xmp’ files. If the XMP data cannot be stored that has not been processed in Camera internally within the file itself (such as is the case with a Raw yet, will automatically have the auto DNG file), this will force the image settings to be stored tone setting applied to it. But any images locally, accompanying the files. The image sharpening you have previously edited using Camera can be applied to the previews only, should you wish to Raw will remain as they are. preview your adjustments with sharpening turned on, but Auto tone works really well on most without actually sharpening the output. The reason for this images, such as outdoor scenes and is because you might want to use a third party sharpening natural lit portraits. But it works less well program in preference to Camera Raw’s sharpening. on photographs that have been shot in In the Default Image Settings section, you can set the studio using controlled lighting. In various behaviors. When ‘Apply auto tone adjustments’ these instances it can be something of a is switched on, Camera Raw will automatically apply an nuisance and is best left switched off. auto tone adjustment to all new images it encounters. The ‘Apply auto grayscale mix when converting to grayscale’ refers to the HSL/Grayscale controls, where Camera Raw Camera Raw cache size The Preview cache is used to store all the thumbnail and preview data as compressed images in a central location. Bridge and Camera Raw use this data to populate the previews. If you have enough free hard disk space available, you may want to increase the size limit for the cache, or choose a new location to store the central preview cache data.