Adobe Photoshop 2023: Camera Raw Filter

Name: Adobe Photoshop 2023: Camera Raw Filter
Author: Jeff Drylewicz

Learn how to access the Camera Raw Filter and utilize its features

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Hello, welcome to Knowledge City's course on Adobe Photoshop. My name is Jeff Dreilowitz, and today I'll be teaching you about opening a raw file directly into Photoshop's camera raw filter. So what is a raw file, and what purpose does it serve? Let's open one and take a look. To start off with, a raw file contains all the raw image information carried by your camera sensors. Think of it as a digital negative. This gives you complete control over the edits you make to your image. Raw files are also significantly bigger than a JPEG or any other image file formats. So this makes it ideal for sharing in a large format setting, such as blowing it up to fill up a billboard. So if you notice right here, this file is 36 .2 megabytes, raw photo file, versus JPEGs, which are 4 .3 or 1 .9. So you'll need a larger memory card if you're gonna be shooting in raw, as opposed to shooting with JPEGs. On the other hand, a JPEG has already processed the image information for you and the camera that you've used. This image information, or data, has been compressed for the sake of file size, as it is easier to share a JPEG with collaborators or printers. While a raw file, on the other hand, cannot be easily shared, that is due to its size. Plus, it can only be opened in software capable of opening raw files, like Photoshop or Lightroom. And you'll notice, in the little icon for my document here, there's a tiny LR there. If I were to double -click on this, it would open automatically in Lightroom. So let's open it in Photoshop. Got one of two options here. I could right -click on it, go with Open With, and again, you see by default, Lightroom is showing up. I could choose Other, and through there, choose the application I wish to use, Adobe Photoshop 2023, choose that and hit Open. The other option would be to drag it directly down into my Photoshop icon, where it will now open directly into the camera raw filter. So I'm gonna make some adjustments to it. So let's bring that temperature down, make it more of a cooler -looking image. And let's bring the exposure up a tiny bit, and let's bring the texture up a little bit. So you can see I've made some visible, different adjustments to this document, so that we can see it'd be different from the original. So when I am done with this, I can simply just hit Done. And when I come back to my document in my folders, if I reopen it, and this time we'll go with opening it through right -click, I'll choose Adobe Photoshop 2023, open it. And you'll see my changes are all still in place. Now, if my photo editing needs to be taken out of the raw filter and brought into Photoshop for other purposes that aren't in the filter itself, I can hit Open down here. When I do that, we're now in Photoshop proper, and I've got my document here with the adjustments that I've made in the raw filter. So now, what I can do is, if I want to save this as a JPEG or as a PSD, I'm gonna manipulate my image a little bit. So first off, I'm gonna take the lock off, I'm gonna hit Command J to duplicate it. So I've got a duplicate and the original. So I will name them as so. It's always good practices to make a copy of what you're working with so that if you ever need to revert back to your original, you have it there. So I'll go up to my filters in the drop -down menu, put a blur on it. So I'm gonna do a Gaussian blur, and just make my image overall a little bit more blurry, gonna hit OK, and I've got that blur in here. So if I'm going to go back to this file at a later time, because I wanna continue editing it, I'm gonna wanna save it as a PSD, a Photoshop document. To do that, I'm gonna come up here to File, come down to Save As, make sure I have a name for it, be aware of where I am saving it. I can see my format down here, so I'm keeping it as a Photoshop document, keeping Embed Color Profile checked off, and I'm gonna hit Save. I've got my Photoshop format options here, I'm just gonna hit OK. And now I've got this saved as a PSD, because I wanna work on it later. And again, if you look at the layers, I can toggle the visibility, and you can see the difference it makes from my duplicate versus my original. Now the flip side of this, if I am done with this file, I'm not gonna be coming back into it, I'm doing no more further editing of it, I can export it as a JPEG. So what that means is I will still have this PSD file existing, I'll still have the raw file existing, and I will also have this smaller JPEG, so that I can easily share it with someone. I'll go up to File, go down to Export, and choose Export As. When the Export As screen comes up, I'm gonna take a look and just make sure I've got it saved as a JPEG, and then I can just simply hit Export. When the Save screen comes up, it's gonna be the same as it was for the PSD. I can name my document, but this time around, it will be saved as a JPEG because we already put that into place. So I'm gonna hit Save, and I've got this saved as a JPEG. So let me close this one out for the moment, I am not gonna save that. And if I come back to my folder here, and I've got my picture of the cliffs, again, I can open this one up in Photoshop, and we'll see, there it is, the blurry version of my cliffs. I've got the PSD, open that up, and I've got both the duplicate and the original there, or my Camera Raw image. I can drag that again to the Photoshop icon, opens up a Camera Raw, and here it is with all the settings I put there in the first place. So that is all for this lesson on opening a raw file into the Camera Raw filter. In the next lesson, we'll learn how to access the Camera Raw filter without a raw file, such as a JPEG or a PSD. Thank you for watching.

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Course Description

The Camera Raw Filter is a powerful and indispensable tool within Photoshop that gives you the ability to enhance and restore your images. With a wide range of adjustment options, including color, sharpness, exposure, optics, vignetting, white balance, red-eye correction, spot removal, and geometry, this filter provides an extensive toolkit for refining your images and projects. Also, the ability to conveniently compare before and after versions of your adjustments and save all changes directly to the original file ensures a seamless editing workflow.

In this course, you will learn how to access the Camera Raw Filter with RAW, JPEG, and PSD files. You will be introduced to the vast functionality of a filter that allows you to make both subtle and obvious adjustments and corrections to your image while retaining the original metadata of the photo. By the end of this course, you will be able to use the Camera Raw filter to create clean and professional projects that align with your brand's identity.

What You'll Learn

Navigate the Camera Raw Filter interface within Photoshop
Access the Camera Raw Filter with RAW, JPEG, and PSD files
Use the Adjustment Panel and its Basic, Curve, and Detail sliders
Apply Color Mixer, Color Grading, and Optics adjustments to refine images
Identify what the metadata in a Photoshop histogram refers to
Use Geometry, Effects, and Calibration sliders to correct and enhance images

Key Takeaways

The Camera Raw Filter offers a wide range of adjustment options including color, sharpness, exposure, optics, vignetting, white balance, red-eye correction, spot removal, and geometry.
The filter can be accessed with RAW, JPEG, and PSD files.
Adjustments retain the original metadata of the photo while allowing both subtle and obvious corrections.
You can compare before and after versions of your adjustments and save changes directly to the original file for a seamless workflow.
The course covers ISO, metadata, and profiles alongside the histogram and adjustment sliders.

Frequently Asked Questions

What will I be able to do after taking this course?

By the end of the course, you will be able to use the Camera Raw Filter to create clean and professional projects that align with your brand's identity.

Which file types can I use with the Camera Raw Filter in this course?

The course shows how to access the Camera Raw Filter with RAW, JPEG, and PSD files.

What adjustments does the course cover?

It covers Basic, Curve, and Detail sliders; Color Mixer, Color Grading, and Optics sliders; and Geometry, Effects, and Calibration sliders, along with ISO, metadata, and profiles.

What skills will I gain from this course?

You will build skills in Adobe Photoshop, photo editing, photographic processing, working with the Photoshop plugin, and the Raw image format, supporting Adobe Photoshop certification.

Does editing with the Camera Raw Filter affect my photo's original metadata?

No. The filter lets you make subtle and obvious adjustments while retaining the original metadata of the photo.