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Cropping Multiple Raw Images At Once

Want to crop just one RAW image and have that exact same crop applied to a number of similar RAW images at once? In Adobe Bridge, just Command-click (PC: Control-click) on all the RAW images you want to crop, then press Command-R (PC: Control-R) to open them in Camera Raw. Next, click the Select All button in the top-left corner of the Camera Raw dialog. Now press C to get the Crop tool, drag out your cropping border within the image in the preview area, and as you drag it out for the current photo, all the other selected photos will get the same cropping treatment, which will be reflected immediately in the list of images on the left side of Camera Raw.

January 14th, 2008 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Shortcut For Rotating Images In Camera Raw

Save yourself a trip up to the Camera Raw’s Toolbox the next time you need to rotate an image. Just press L on your keyboard to rotate to the left or press R to rotate to the right. To rotate completely around, just keep pressing either letter.

January 11th, 2008 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Adding Points To Camera Raw’s Curve

Camera Raw in CS2 has its own curves adjustments (under the Curve tab), but adding a point to the curve is different in Camera Raw than it is in Photoshop. To plot a point on your curve in Photoshop, you just click the Eyedropper on the spot in your image you want plotted. But in Camera Raw, you have to Command-click (PC: Control-click) the Eyedropper instead.

January 10th, 2008 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

How To See The Sharpening Now, But Not Apply It

Many pros prefer to apply their sharpening in Photoshop itself, using Unsharp Mask or the Smart Sharpen filter, rather than in Camera Raw. If that sounds like you, wouldn’t it be nice to just see what the sharpening would look like, even if you don’t apply it? Of course, you could simply adjust the Sharpening slider (under the Detail tab) for a moment, look at the image, then slide it back—but there’s a better way. While you have an image open in Camera Raw, press Command-K (PC: Control-K) to open the Camera Raw Preferences. When the dialog appears, change the Apply Sharpening To pop-up menu so it shows Preview Images Only. That way, any sharpening you apply in Camera Raw will only be applied to the preview you see onscreen in Camera Raw, and not the photo itself, so you can apply it later in Photoshop.

January 9th, 2008 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Removing A Straightening In Camera Raw

The Straighten tool (A) and the Crop tool (C) in Camera Raw are pretty much tied together. So much so, in fact, that if you want to cancel your straightening, you have to first click on the Crop tool (if it’s not active by default after dragging with the Straighten tool), then press the Escape key on your keyboard.

January 8th, 2008 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Cancelling A Crop In Camera Raw

If you’re using the Crop tool (C) in Camera Raw, and decide you want to cancel your Crop, just click on the Crop tool, then press the Escape key on your keyboard.

January 7th, 2008 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Shortcuts For Highlight And Shadow Warnings

If you’re going to be using CS2’s new Highlight and Shadow clipping warnings, here are two shortcuts you’ll need to know: Press the letter O to turn on the Highlight clipping warning (everything that appears highlighted in red is clipping), and press U to toggle on/off the Shadow clipping warning (everything that appears in blue is clipped to solid black with no detail).

January 4th, 2008 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Getting More Readouts Per Eyedropper

In Photoshop CS2, the Color Sampler tool can give you readings from up to four different places, but the Color Sampler in Camera Raw is more powerful and monitors even more areas for you. Each time you click the tool, another set of readings appears at the top of the Camera Raw dialog, and although it looks like six is the maximum number of color samplers you can add to your image (because the top of the Camera Raw dialog looks full), you can actually add three more (for a total of nine color samplers). Try it, and you’ll see the six samplers squeeze to accommodate three more samplers. Now, I have to say, if you need to monitor the color in nine different areas of your image, perhaps working with RAW images shouldn’t be your biggest concern.

January 3rd, 2008 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

How To Undo The White Balance Tool

If you used the White Balance tool (I) to set the white balance in your image, and you don’t like the results, you can undo your white balance setting by double-clicking on the White Balance tool in Camera Raw’s Toolbox.

January 2nd, 2008 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Turning Off Auto Correction For Good

If you don’t like the Auto corrections that are applied to your RAW images by default, you can change things so that when you open photos from your camera, it will no longer perform any Auto corrections. Here’s how: Open a RAW image and press Command-U (PC: Control-U) to turn off all the Auto corrections in Camera Raw. Then go under the flyout menu (to the right of the Settings pop-up menu) and choose Save New Camera Raw Defaults. Now, when you open a photo taken with the same camera make and model, it will no longer apply any of the Auto settings.

December 28th, 2007 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Toggling The Preview On/Off

So, have the adjustments you’ve made in Camera Raw helped or hurt your photo? Just press the letter P and you’ll quickly find out. This turns the preview of your changes off, and shows how the original file looked before you started tweaking it. To turn the preview back on, just press P again.

December 27th, 2007 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Seeing Your RAW Image Without The Auto Corrections

By default, when you open a RAW image in Photoshop CS2, Camera Raw looks at the EXIF data embedded into your photo by your digital camera to find out which type of camera it was taken with, and once it knows, it applies a set of Auto corrections to the photo’s exposure, shadows, brightness, and contrast. If you’d like to see what your RAW image looked like before Camera Raw applied these Auto corrections, just press Command-U (PC: Control-U), and it turns off all the Auto corrections to give you a clear, uncorrected view. Pretty bad, eh? So press Command-U (PC: Control-U) to turn those bad boys right back on.

December 26th, 2007 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Slide Away The Aberrations

If you see areas of bright-colored fringe appearing around objects in your RAW photos, you’re suffering from Chromatic Aberrations (well, you’re not, but your camera’s lens is). Under the Lens tab in Camera Raw, there are two sliders (Fix Red/Cyan Fringe and Fix Blue/Yellow Fringe) that you let you slide those problems away, but seeing the problem clearly enough to eliminate the fringe is your first challenge. That’s why you’ll want to know this tip: If you hold the Option key (PC: Alt key) while you’re dragging either Chromatic Aberration slider, it will only show the two channels you’re adjusting in the preview area, making it easier to see—and repair—the problem.

December 21st, 2007 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (1)

Updating The Histogram As You Crop

The fact that Camera Raw has cropping built in should be cool enough, but its Crop tool (C) is smarter than Photoshop’s. For example, when you drag out a cropping border in Camera Raw, take a look at the histogram in the top-right corner—it instantly updates to show you the histogram for just the areas that appear inside your cropping border. Sweet!

December 20th, 2007 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Don’t Click The White Balance Tool On Something White

The White Balance tool (I) actually works best by clicking on something in your photo that is light gray, rather than clicking on something that supposed to be white. Once you’ve clicked on a light gray area, use the Tint and Temperature sliders if you want to tweak the white balance a little bit, but use the White Balance tool to do most of the work.

December 19th, 2007 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

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Photoshop Tutorials

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Imageready’s Supercharged Eyedropper

In previous versions of Photoshop, you could only use the Eyedropper tool to sample a color from other open images in Photoshop, but for some reason, ImageReady had a supercharged Eyedropper. If you clicked the mouse button within your image and held it down, you could leave your image window and sample colors from, well… just about anything—including your computer desktop or any other open application. Freaky! Fortunately, Adobe finally added this same power to Photoshop’s Eyedropper tool.