Photoshop Workbench 234: Game Changing Edits in Adobe Camera Raw 6.1
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In today’s Workbench, we’ll use Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) 6.1’s powerful inventory of features to breath life into an already stunning image submitted by Bev Robertson. If you don’t have ACR 6.1, you’ll first need to upgrade to Photoshop CS5, then you can download 6.1 for free by opening Bridge and choosing Help>Updates.
Since Bev’s image is a TIFF, our first step is to enable ACR to open TIFF files. To accomplish this, we’ll choose Adobe Bridge CS5>Camera Raw Preferences (PC: Edit>Camera Raw Preferences). At the base of the dialog in the JPEG and TIFF Handling section, change the TIFF pull-down to Automatically open TIFFs with settings and press OK. Now, in Bridge’s Content panel, Control-click (PC: Right-click) on the Tiff thumbnail and choose Open in Camera Raw from the pop-up menu.
Due to several big improvements, such as significantly improved noise reduction, better post-crop vignetting, and enhanced image quality, ACR is now officially part of my HDR workflow. When I release my HDR eBook later this summer, I’ll explain why. Since our goal in this Workbench is to improve Bev’s image, we’ll only visit panels and tools that will help us achieve our goal. Some of the fun things we’ll encounter include noise reduction, targeted saturation adjustments, post-crop vignetting, and local corrections using the Adjustment Brush.
Wednesday, July 7, 2010 at 1:36 pm
Thank you for the video Mark. Like you, I use ACR not only for the raw but also for adjust the tiff, after the raw. I think that it’s possible to have a complete workflow and adjustment, global and local, with CR and then put the final touch with cs5.
Last but not least, the new function of ACR 6, like noise and camera correcting lens , are more powerful.
I hope that you write an ebook not only for the hdr, but also for all use of ACR.
Regards
Antonio