Lesson Info
36. Understanding RAW Files
Lessons
Class Introduction
00:52 2Introducing Photoshop
02:37 3The Class Materials
01:36 4How To Open Files
01:42 5Using The Home Screen
02:35 6Exploring The Interface
03:30 7Getting Additional Help
01:36 8Understanding Workspaces
05:11Tools and The Options Bar
03:50 10Why You Should Use a Tablet
04:31 11Finding Hidden Tools
04:23 12How to See What You’re Working On
08:12 13Selecting Things
08:01 14More Selection Tools
12:25 15Testing the Magic Wand and Quick Selection Tools
07:25 16The History Palette – Undoing Things
05:24 17Resolution and Bit Depth
07:03 18Photoshop Preferences
01:31 19Menu and Item Shortcut Keys
02:39 20Non-Destructive Editing
02:57 21Working with Layers
12:19 22Groovy 3 Exercise
11:43 23Layer Effects and Styles
05:38 24Layer Masks – Karen on Beans
08:33 25Using Adjustment Layers
05:38 26Martian Karen
03:37 27Advanced Compositing Using Layers
08:43 28Non-Destructive Editing Techniques
05:22 29Understanding Smart Objects
07:28 30Smart Sharpen
06:42 31Understanding Histogram
06:24 32Adjusting Curves
03:48 33The Healing Brush Tools
10:26 34The Clone Stamp Tool
07:47 35The Burn and Dodge Tools
05:55 36Understanding RAW Files
01:44 37Adobe Camera Raw
04:18 38XMP Sidecar Files
02:14 39Camera Raw: Edit
12:24 40Camera Raw: Crop & Rotate
03:13 41Camera Raw: Spot Removal
04:56 42Camera Raw: Adjustment Brush
08:17 43Camera Raw: Graduated Filter
05:40 44Camera Raw: Radial Filter
05:11 45Camera Raw: Red-Eye Removal
02:04 46Camera Raw: Snapshots and Presets
09:39 47Neural Filters
10:09 48Portrait Retouching Session
36:53 49Scenic Retouching Session
11:25Lesson Info
Understanding RAW Files
Raw files, What are they? We've been talking a lot about raw files and you've been hearing me mention adobe camera. Raw what the heck are raw files? Well, Raw files or images that are shot with modern DSLR cameras and mirror less cameras that allow you to develop them over and over as many different ways as you want to. Infinity is the equivalent of the digital negative. So imagine this, if you had, if you were in your kitchen and you have all the ingredients to bake a cake, you have the flour and the eggs and the milk and all the stuff that you need to bake a cake. And you made a giant cake and you said, you know that's pretty good. But I wish I would've made it differently and you looked and you have all the same ingredients and you could do it again. And so you did you make a different kind of cake and you're like, you know what, I want to make a different cake and here's all the ingredients and you could do that forever into infinity. Well that's what camera raw is. That's what raw...
files are. Once you take a photo using a raw setting in your camera, you have all the ingredients and then you can develop those ingredients to make maybe a black and white image or a color image or an image that's tightly cropped or an image that's really saturated or whatever you want. You can take those same ingredients that same raw file and then you can interpret it any way you want as many times as you want to infinity. Those raw files are going to give you the maximum resolution that your camera has to offer. It's gonna give you the maximum bit depth that your camera has to offer. It's gonna give you the most post production flexibility now to develop a raw file. While we have something called adobe Camera Raw, it's one of the most exciting things that's built into Photoshop. So we're gonna look at that in depth right now.
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Ratings and Reviews
Katie
Mark did a great job at explaining things and going over them multiple times throughout the lessons. My only issue was that sometimes it went a little faster than I could keep up and I needed to rewind it a bit and start again. But from someone who has never worked in photoshop before I 100% recommend this class to anyone trying to learn.
Terri Schwartz
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