Camera Raw Cs5
Well - all I can tell you is that when I run Photoshop CS5.5 and open a NEF file - ACR opens and at the top of the screen and it clearly states 'Camera RAW 7.0 - Nikon D700' and when I go to Help and 'About Plug-ins' it reports 'Camera RAW 7.0.0.226'.
I recently wrote an introduction to Camera Raw in Photoshop, briefly outlining what Camera Raw is, and what the raw file format is. In this follow-up, we’ll take a look at how to open images in Camera Raw using the Camera Raw plug-in. We can work with Raw, JPEG and TIFF files.Download Photoshop Free 7 Day TrialYou can open a raw file in Photoshop, in much the same way as you would open any other type of image file. The difference is, the raw file opens in the Camera Raw window instead of the main Photoshop workspace.Open Raw Files From The File Browser
- The camera raw converter functionality in Adobe Photoshop software provides fast and easy access to the raw image formats produced by many leading professional and midrange digital cameras.
- I had to uninstall, then re-install, Photoshop CS5 in order to get the latest Adobe Camera Raw, which I needed to process files from the EOS 60D, but it seems to be worth the trouble. Norm came out well, even at ISO 640, and ACR has a lot more control for developing raw files than does Canon Digital Professional.
Open Images in Camera Raw From Bridge
It’s simple to open Raw, JPEG and TIFF files from Adobe Bridge. Here are three different ways to get your photo from Bridge to Camera Raw:Double-click a raw file in the Content panel. The image opens in Camera Raw.OrClick once on any image – Raw, JPEG or TIFF, then press Ctrl + R (Windows) or Cmd + R (Mac).OrActivate an image in the Content panel and then choose File > “Open in Camera Raw.”Open JPEG or TIFF images in Camera Raw
You can open JPEG or TIFF files from Bridge (as mentioned above). You can also open a JPEG or TIFF from Photoshop, directly into Camera Raw, by doing the following:In Windows: From Photoshop’s File menu, choose Open AsCamera Raw Cs5
. Browse through your folders to find the JPEG or TIFF image you want. Click on the file you’re interested in, then change the pop-up menu at the bottom right to Camera Raw, then click Open.On a Mac: From Photoshop’s File menu, choose Open. The Open dialog appears. Browse through your folders to find the JPEG or TIFF image you want. Click on the file you want. In the Format pop-up menu at the bottom it will say JPEG (or TIFF if you chose a TIFF file), now click on that menu, then choose Camera Raw. Then click the Open button and your image will open in Camera Raw.How to Make JPEGs and TIFFs Always Open In Camera Raw
If you’d like to set up so that every time you open a JPEG or TIFF, it opens directly in Camera Raw, you can do that in the Camera Raw preferences. I would recommend this for photographers, but I don’t recommend it for designers. 1. Go to Photoshop > Preferences > Camera Raw (Mac) or Edit > Preferences > Camera Raw (Windows)2. At the bottom of the Camera Raw Preferences dialog, under JPEG and TIFF Handling, set both JPEG and TIFF to Automatically Open All Supported JPEGs and Automatically Open all Supported TIFFs, respectively.3. Click OK. Note that this change won’t kick in until the next time you start Photoshop.Opening more than one file at a time in Camera Raw
You can open multiple files in Camera Raw from either Bridge or Photoshop, and you can apply the same edits to multiple files simultaneously. This can be really handy if you have a pile of images that were all taken in the same environment and require the same sort of adjustments, such as creating more contrast or removing colour casts.To open multiple files from Bridge, into Camera Raw, do the following:1. In Bridge, open the folder holding your photos.2. Shift + Click all of the images you want.3. Choose File > Open In Camera Raw.Your images open in Camera Raw. Notice the film strip along the left side. Choose any photo to edit by simply clicking on the thumbnail.Camera Raw Cs5 Plugin
And that’s how you can open images in Camera Raw in Photoshop.Now you can start to have fun editing your Raw, JPEG and TIFF files.I hope you found this post helpful. Please share it. Thank you! 🙂Download Photoshop Free 7 Day Trial
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␡- Why use Camera Raw?
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
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Using the powerful controls in the Adobe Camera Raw plug-in,*you can apply corrections to your photos before opening them into Photoshop.
In this chapter, you’ll learn how to open digital photos into the Camera Raw dialog (called “Camera Raw,” for short), and then use the many tabs in Camera Raw to correct your photos for under- or overexposure, blurriness, color casts, poor contrast, and other defects.
Why use Camera Raw?
Whereas amateur-level digital cameras store images in the JPEG or TIFF format, advanced amateur and pro models offer the option to save images as raw data files, which has substantial advantages. The camera applies internal processing to photos captured as JPEG or TIFF, such as sharpening, setting the white balance, and making color adjustments. With raw files, you get only the original raw information that the lens captured onto its digital sensor, leaving you with full control over subsequent image processing and correction. Each camera manufacturer creates its own variation of a raw file. (For a further discussion of raw files versus JPEG and TIFF files, see page 61.)
These are some of the advantages to using the Camera Raw plug-in:
- Camera Raw processes raw photos from most digital camera models, as well as digital TIFF and JPEG photos.
- Camera Raw offers powerful controls for adjusting the exposure, color, tonal range, noise, and other characteristics of your photos, and you can monitor the corrections in a large preview.
- For raw files, Camera Raw edits (stored as instructions) are saved in either a separate “sidecar” file or in the Camera Raw database. For TIFF and JPEG files, the instructions are saved in the photo file. When you open a file from Camera Raw into Photoshop, regardless of the format, the instructions are applied to a copy of the file, and the original digital file is preserved.
- You can convert your photos to some standard formats (e.g., PSD, JPEG) through Camera Raw, or you can change their format in Photoshop.
Note: Don’t confuse the raw files that a camera produces with Photoshop Raw, which is one of the choices on the Format menu in the File > Save and Save As dialogs in Photoshop.
More reasons to use Camera Raw
In case you’re not fully convinced, we’ll outline some compelling reasons for using the Camera Raw plug-in instead of opening your digital photos directly into Photoshop. It offers powerful and unique controls that you won’t find in Photoshop.
Raw preview: The only way to preview a raw photo is through a raw converter, such as Camera Raw. (The image you see on your digital camera’s LCD screen is based not on the raw capture, but on the JPEG preview that accompanies the raw capture.)
Less destructive: Exposure, white balance, color, and other corrections made in Camera Raw cause less destruction to a photo than adjustment commands in Photoshop. The goal, when applying corrections, is to cause as little destruction as possible while preserving as much original data as possible.
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16 bits per channel: To preserve the full tonal range of a raw photo, you can use Camera Raw to convert it to a 16-bits-per-channel file. Having more original data at the outset helps offset the data loss from image edits made in Photoshop. The end result is a better-quality photo.
Tonal redistribution: A bonus feature of Camera Raw is that it fixes a problem inherent in all digital photos: the fact that the digital sensor in a camera records data in a linear fashion. The sensor captures the existing range of tonal values in a scene as is, without skewing the data. More data is used to capture light values than dark values. A The human eye, however, is more sensitive to lower light levels than to higher light levels. That is, we’re more likely to notice when shadows lack detail and less likely to notice extra details in the highlights.
By shifting data into the midtone and shadow ranges, Camera Raw produces a photo that more closely approximates human vision. B When a photo contains insufficient data in the shadow range, tonal adjustments made in Photoshop will cause posterization and a noticeable loss of detail. With its extra data in the midtone and shadow ranges, a photo converted by Camera Raw will be better equipped to withstand those Photoshop edits.
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Noise reduction and sharpening: Not to knock Photoshop, but the noise reduction and sharpening features in Camera Raw are easier to use, less destructive, and more effective than similar commands in Photoshop.
You’re halfway there: You will be able to build on the skills learned in this chapter, because the Camera Raw controls that you’ll use to correct the tonal and color balance in your photos are similar to many of the adjustment controls in Photoshop that you will learn about in later chapters (such as Levels, Curves, and Hue/Saturation).
The skinny: To correct and enhance digital photos in preparation for further edits in Photoshop, Camera Raw is an ideal launch pad.
Raw, JPEG, or TIFF?
In addition to raw files, photos that a camera saves in the JPEG or TIFF format can also be opened and edited in Camera Raw. Although more Camera Raw features are available for raw photos than for JPEG and TIFF photos, if your camera doesn’t shoot raw photos or you acquire JPEG or TIFF photos from other sources, you can still use most of the Camera Raw features to process them.
Unfortunately, Camera Raw can’t correct deficiencies in digital JPEG and TIFF photos as fully as it can in raw photos, for several reasons. First, JPEG and TIFF photos have a bit depth of only 8 bits per channel, unlike raw photos, which have a bit depth of 16 bits per channel. Second, color and tonal processing is applied to JPEGs and TIFFs by the camera (“in camera”). Camera Raw must reinterpret this processed data, with less successful results than when it has access to the raw, unprocessed data. And finally, the editing instructions are saved in the files themselves (processing is applied when the files are opened and saved in Photoshop), not in the sidecar or database file, as is the case with raw files. Nonetheless, you can use the many outstanding correction and adjustment features in Camera Raw to improve your JPEG and TIFF photos.
Note: In this chapter, we focus only on processing raw and JPEG files in Camera Raw — not TIFFs. The JPEG format is mentioned only when a particular feature treats JPEGs differently from the way it treats raw files.
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