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Unit 2: Processing Photos with Camera Raw
Getting to Know the Camera Raw Tools:
The tools are found at the top of the Camera Raw interface, as shown in Figure. Some of the
tools are fairly basic, and we know how they work, such as the Zoom and Hand tools. Other
tools have specialized functions, such as the Targeted Adjustmenttool and the Graduated Filter.
List of tools are.

Zoom tool. Use this tool to get a closer look at an area of the photo. The photo zooms to the
point where you click the Zoom tool. To zoom back out, just press and hold the Alt/Option key
to change the plus sign.
Hand tool. Use this tool when the image is bigger than the document window; we can grab the
image with the Hand tool and move it around in the window to look at other areas of your photo.
White Balance tool. Use this tool to select an area of the photo that is white or neutral gray and
change the white balance of the photo based on that selection.
Color Sampler. Use this tool to find the RGB values of areas in the image. These values change
as to correct the tone and color of the photo, giving to an numerical representation of the changes
taking place in the image..
Targeted Adjustment tool. Use this tool to choose one pixel in the image and change its value
in the histogram, which changes the values of the other colors in the histogram as well. Click the
area of the photo that we want to adjust and hold down the left mouse button while we drag side
to side or up and down. This changes the value of the pixel we click
Crop tool. Select the Crop tool, then click and drag around the area you want to crop. If we want
to straighten the image as well, just use the rotating arrow that appears when we hover over one
of the corners, and rotate the cropped area. Double-click to finish.
Straighten tool. Use this tool to straighten a photo. Drag it in what should be a straight
horizontal line in the photo, and the image rotates to compensate. This tool is also non-
destructive; we can correct the results at any time.
Spot Removal tool. Use this tool to correct areas in the photo that need touchups.
Red-Eye Removal tool. Use this tool to correct red-eye.
Adjustment Brush. Use this tool to make adjustments to just one area of the photo in Camera
Raw. Although this sounds straightforward, it is actually more complicated than it sounds.
Graduated Filter. Use this tool to make gradual changes to areas of your photo. For instance,
you may have a darker foreground coupled with an overexposed sky. Use this tool to correct one
or the other gradually for realistic results.
Open Preferences. Click this icon to open the Preferences dialog box where you can adjust
several of your Camera Raw preferences.
Rotate. Use these buttons to rotate your image 90 degrees clockwise or counterclockwise.
Toggle Full Screen Mode. Use this button to fill your screen with the Camera Raw utility or to
reduce it to a floating box within Photoshop.
Synchronizing Adjustments in Multiple RAW Images
We can correct several photos at once using the Camera Raw interface. This is a real time saver
if the photos have been taken in similar lighting conditions. For example, we might have several
outdoor shots of the same wedding. When we make changes to the photo that is displayed in
Camera Raw, those changes are also applied to any selected photo in the filmstrip. Using the
Synchronize option, you can choose which changes apply to selected photos and which ones do
not apply to other selected photos in the filmstrip. To make changes to multiple photos, they
must first be open in Camera Raw. Select multiple images in Bridge, and double-click to open
them in Camera Raw. we see them displayed in the filmstrip in Camera Raw, as shown in Figure
Select more than one image at once by using the Shift key to select images in sequence or the
Ctrl/Ô key to select images one at a time. We can also click Select All to select all the images in
the filmstrip.
To synchronize which changes are made to all the selected images, click Synchronize. This
opens the Synchronize dialog box, shown in Figure. Use the drop-down list or select individual
check boxes to specify which options change across all the selected photos in Camera Raw.
After finished making batch changes, select the photos one at a time to preview the changes and
tweak them individually, but the bulk of the adjustments are already made, saving you a lot of
time in processing the files.
Adjusting the White Balance
White Balance setting that tells it what lighting is being used when a photo is captured. For
example, a fluorescent light leaves a greenish-yellow cast on your photos, giving your whites a
greenish-yellow tinge.Camera can compensate by adjusting the color information to filter out the
colorcast. photos that look good can be improved with a simple white balance adjustment and
photos taken in horrible lighting situations can be improved dramatically.
In Camera Raw, we can reset the white balance correctly in three different ways:
1. Use the White Balance tool
2. Change the lighting settings
3. Use the Temperature and Tint sliders
Using the White Balance tool:
The White Balance tool can be an effective way to quickly correct the colors in our photo, or it
can be an exercise in frustration. It all depends on the photo we are trying to correct and the area
on which we use the tool. The White Balance tool can be found in the tool menu at the top of the
Camera Raw interface. To use the White Balance tool, select it and click an area of selected
photo that should be white or a neutral gray, as shown in Figure. Camera Raw automatically
adjusts the colors in the photo to correct the white balance based on our selection.
Changing the lighting settings

We use the White Balance menu shown in Figure to change the lighting settings based on the
lighting where the photo was taken. If we took a photo on a cloudy day and it turned out too
cool, we can choose Cloudy to warm it up. If we took a photo under fluorescent lighting and the
photo has that nasty yellow cast, we can choose Fluorescent to filter it out. we get the idea. we
may find that selecting a setting from the menu based on the light in which we took the photo
may not always give the best result. we should preview and experiment with the different options
before we decide on one.
Temperature and Tint sliders
If we prefer to “eyeball” the changes to the white balance, we can adjust the Temperature and
Tint sliders in the Basic panel, as shown in Figure. The Temperature slider adjusts the levels of
yellow and blue in the photo, and the Tint slider adjusts the levels of red and green. A good rule
of thumb is to find an object in the photo that we want to be a certain color (skin tones or whites
are fairly easy to determine) and tweak the sliders until we have just the color we want.
Adjusting Lighting
Basic panel adjust the exposure and lighting of photo in different ways. This is where we really
see a difference in the quality of a Camera Raw image over a JPEG. Look at Figure for example.
The before photo is a shot of balloons taken in the early morning light, creating a dark image
where the balloons are just silhouettes on the background of the eastern sky. If this image were a
JPEG, making the image lighter would result in a grainy photo with a lot of color noise. The after
image in Figure. Shows that fixing this image in Camera Raw turned out a better result; some
noise was created, but notnearly as much as if this image had been a JPEG.
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Unit 2: Processing Photos with Camera Raw

Getting to Know the Camera Raw Tools:

List of tools are.

Synchronizing Adjustments in Multiple RAW Images

Changing the lighting settings

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