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Bypass Camera Raw and go straight to Photoshop

 

If you’re in Bridge and you want to open a RAW photo without going through the Camera Raw dialog, just press-and-hold the Shift key and double-click on the image. It’ll bypass the Camera Raw dialog, apply the current settings to the photo, and open it in Photoshop.

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  1. Chris said on — March 29, 2010 @ 3:50 pm

    Hi. Thank you, this was helpful. My main problem seems to be the file itself. When I open the RAW file in photoshop it looks like it’s been compressed in the process somehow. I shot some RAW + JPEG images on my 7D and when I preview them in Bridge, the JPEG is much more compressed (saturated and crushed blacks) yet when I open them both in CS4 it’s reversed the the RAW looks compressed.

    Any ideas?

    Thank you!

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Create A Composite Layer

If you have a multilayer composition and you
want to apply an effect to all the layers at once, don’t flatten the layers–use a composite layer instead. Hide the layers you want excluded, and press Shift-Command-Option-E (PC: Shift-Ctrl-Alt-E). A new layer will be created at the top containing a merged copy of all the visible layers.

Another option is to create a new layer at the top of the stack and make it active. Command-click (PC: Ctrl-click) each layer you want to include to make those layers active, as well. Press Option-Command-E (PC: Alt-Ctrl-E).
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