Lesson Info
38. XMP Sidecar 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
XMP Sidecar Files
Let's talk a little bit about sidecar files. What the heck are those? Well if we go and look here in the class materials I mentioned before, we have these little X. M. P. Files that show up an X. M. P file is an adobe Sidecar file. Now with the sidecar file. What you can do as you can take those files and you can save it alongside your original file. So if you have a raw file and an X. M. P. File, that X. M. P file is going to store all of the developed settings that you have made in that raw file. And so then if you take the raw file and the X. M. P. File with it and you put it on a different computer or maybe you use it with a different application, that different application or other computer can then see what you've done with that raw file. So I've included those X. M. P. Files in the class materials so that when you open the raw files that I've included, it includes all of the developed settings that I've made. Now. Some raw files allow you to save the developed settings inside an...
d they're embedded inside the raw file. Some files don't, so to be safe, if you're not sure. Always use an X. M. P. Sidecar file. Now, if your geeky like me, you want to see what's inside those. Well, let's take a look. So I've opened the wanna dot X. M. P sidecar file, you can see it's an Xml file here and it just has all of the data. This is very, very geeky stuff. If I go down here, you can see all the version, but it has all this stuff in here that uh, that adobe wants to know. So it's gonna ask things. It's like, hey, the sharpness, is this the radius, is this the detail, Is this the shadows are here. Every single little thing that you've done in adobe camera raw is saved. Profile names. All that kind of stuff is saved. So it's all the information about your raw file that can be used by other computers or other applications. Or maybe if you just want to archive that image and save the develops that you've made, it's all in that sidecar file. That's what those are. All right. Now, we're ready to take some time and dive into adobe camera Raw.
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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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