So in this session, we're going to cover Adobe camera. Raw Adobe camera is one of the most important parts of Photoshopped. In fact, it's not really even harder Photoshopped. It comes with photo shop, but it's a plug in. It's something that's used before. Your picture is actually opened where you can see all of photo shops interface. If you have a raw file and you double click on it, it automatically sends you to adobe camera. If you have a J peg or a tiff file, you can force it to go in there. But it is a one stop shop for adjusting your images and often times I can finish. I'd say 70 to 80% of my images using Onley, adobe camera raw and therefore the image never really needs to even get opened in the photo shop. What makes that nice? Well, it's one screen where I have all the controls I need, but the main thing is, when you make a change using adobe camera, it saves the changes you make. As what's known as meta data metadata is text on. Example of metadata is when you take a picture,...

the shutter speed you captured it with is attached to your picture as text. It's not part of the picture itself, it's attached to it. And that's known as metadata. Well, when I move a slider in adobe camera, it's instantly saved as text. The moment I click that I'm done, it gets saved in the file size on Lee goes up about maybe 15 kilobytes. That's about the size of a text email. Whereas if I open the same image into Photoshopped, then the file size is going to start getting big in. If I end up making changes and I want them to be non destructive where it can easily undo them later, then I have to use layers in as I do. My file size just exponentially gets larger and larger as I do that. But making changes using only Adobe camera makes it so. The file sizes state absolutely tiny, and everything happens relatively quickly. You don't the wait for progress bars to finish and things like that, so let's dive in and get started with using camera. Wrong. I'm gonna start here in bridge. That's just where I'm always gonna start to browse my pictures and the only thing I'm gonna deal here is hide the preview on the right just simply because I don't need it to hide the preview on the right. I'm gonna move my mouse to the edge of that area, the left edge, and just drag that edge all the way to the left to hide it. Then I'll bring up my thumbnail size here and we'll see some images. Now, all of these images have already been adjusted and they've been adjusted using Onley adobe camera. So I just want to show you before and after is saying see what type of transformation and image might go through as you go into camera. Because then hopefully you'll get more excited about learning how to truly understand the features that are available. So I'm gonna select all these images. I will do that by typing command A. It's the same as going to the edit menu and choosing select all. And then I'm gonna say here, opening camera rock, they'll show up this little thumbnails on the left side. That's what you get. Any time you see more than one picture in camera raw and here's what I'm gonna do, I'm going to just go near the right side of my screen where you see all these adjustments, sliders, and there's a little menu there. It looks like three little bars case you can't see it. It's right there. It's known as a hamburger menu, and I'm gonna click on it. And she's came a raw defaults that's gonna end up showing you what this image looked like right as it came out of the camera before any change had been made. So here is my original, then all type command Z controls and windows. That's just a shortcut for undo. Then therefore, you'll see the end result. And so there's what was captured. Here's how I interpret it using camera, go to another image and again I'll go to that same menu and choose Kamerad defaults. That's what my camera captured, but I wanted something different. Look at how dark those horses are. Just doesn't have that much interest in it. Afterwards, I really like the end result. A couple others just continue through them, so you get a better sense for what camera raw is capable of. So this is where your dull, boring pictures is, what you're starting with, and they're ending up looking really nice. And it's on Lee. When there's something that camera is incapable of doing that we're gonna head into photo shop for the things that it's just not capable of because it's limited in what you can do because of the way it saves its changes. Its changes are saved as metadata, which is just text. And so it's describing what was the position of a slider You moved exposure to plus two, and it just saved that in it. It's not saving a huge amount of data, so therefore it's limited in its functionality. But you can see how dramatic of changes are possible using just one screen, which is known as Adobe Camera.

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Lessons 1 - 6 - Handbook 1: Introduction to Adobe Photoshop

Lessons 7 - 12 - Handbook 2: How to Use Camera Raw

Lessons 13 - 18 - Handbook 3: Making Selections

Lessons 19 - 24 - Handbook 4: Using Layers

Lessons 25 - 30 - Handbook 5: Using Layer Masks

Lessons 31 - 38 - Handbook 6: Using Adjustment Layers

Lessons 39 - 44 - Handbook 7: Color Theory

Lessons 45 - 51 - Handbook 8: Retouching Essentials

Lessons 52 - 59 - Handbook 9: Tools Panel

Lessons 60 - 64 - Handbook 10: Layer Blending Modes

Lessons 65 - 70 - Handbook 11: How to Use Filters

Lessons 71 - 74 - Handbook 12: Advanced Masks

Lessons 75 - 81 - Handbook 13: Using Smart Objects

Lessons 82 - 86 - Handbook 14: Photography for Photoshop

Lessons 87 - 93 - Handbook 15: Advanced Photo Retouching

Lessons 94 - 98 - Handbook 16: Warp, Blend, Liquify

Lessons 99 - 105 - Handbook 17: Advanced Layers

Lessons 106 - 112 - Handbook 18: Actions

Lessons 113 - 117 - Handbook 19: Troubleshooting Issues

Practice Images 1: Introduction to Adobe Photoshop

Practice Images 2: How to Use Camera Raw

Practice Images 3: Making Selections

Practice Images 4: Using Layers

Practice Images 5: Using Layer Masks

Practice Images 6: Using Adjustment Layers

Practice Images 7: Color Theory

Practice Images 8: Retouching Essentials

Practice Images 9: Tools Panel

Practice Images 10: Layer Blending Modes

Practice Images 11: How to Use Filters

Practice Images 12: Advanced Masks

Practice Images 13: Using Smart Objects

Practice Images 14: Photography for Photoshop

Practice Images 15: Advanced Photo Retouching

Practice Images 16: Warp, Blend, Liquify

Practice Images 17: Advanced Layers

Practice Images 18: Actions

Practice Images 19: Troubleshooting Issues

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How To Use Camera Raw in Adobe Photoshop 2020

How To Use Camera Raw in Adobe Photoshop 2020

Lesson Info

7. How To Use Camera Raw in Adobe Photoshop 2020

Lessons

Introduction To Adobe Photoshop

Bridge vs. Lightroom

Tour of Photoshop Interface

Overview of Bridge Workspace

Overview of Lightroom Workspace

Lightroom Preferences - Saving Documents

How To Use Camera Raw in Adobe Photoshop 2020

Overview of Basic Adjustment Sliders

Developing Raw Images

Editing with the Effects and HLS Tabs

How to Save Images

Using the Transform Tool

Making Selections in Adobe Photoshop 2020

Selection Tools

Combining Selection Tools

Using Automated Selection Tools

Quick Mask Mode

Select Menu Essentials

Using Layers in Adobe Photoshop 2020

Align Active Layers

Creating a New Layer

Creating a Clipping Mask

Using Effects on Layers

Using Adjustment Layers

Using the Shape Tool

Create a Layer Mask Using the Selection Tool

Masking Multiple Images Together

Using Layer Masks to Remove People

Using Layer Masks to Replace Sky

Adding Texture to Images

Layering to Create Realistic Depth

Adjustment Layers in Adobe Photoshop 2020

Optimizing Grayscale with Levels

Adjusting Levels with a Histogram

Understanding Curves

Editing an Image Using Curves

Editing with Shadows/Highlights Adjustment

Dodge and Burn Using Quick Mask Mode

Editing with Blending Modes

Color Theory

Curves for Color

Hue and Saturation Adjustments

Isolating Colors Using Hue/Saturation Adjustment

Match Colors Using Numbers

Adjusting Skin Tones

Retouching Essentials In Adobe Camera Raw

Retouching with the Spot Healing Brush

Retouching with the Clone Stamp

Retouching with the Healing Brush

Retouching Using Multiple Retouching Tools

Extending an Edge with Content Aware

Clone Between Documents

Crop Tool

Frame Tool

Eye Dropper and Color Sampler Tools

Paint Brush Tools

History Brush Tool

Eraser and Gradient Tools

Brush Flow and Opacity Settings

Blur and Shape Tools

Dissolve Mode

Multiply Mode

Screen Mode

Hard Light Mode

Hue, Saturation, and Color Modes

Smart Filters

High Pass Filter

Blur Filter

Filter Gallery

Adaptive Wide Angle Filter

Combing Filters and Features

Select and Mask

Manually Select and Mask

Creating a Clean Background