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Bypass Camera Raw’s Annoying Save As Dialog

If you’ve been processing images and you want to quickly save a file with the settings you’ve just applied, you don’t have to have the whole Save As dialog appear, which just takes up time and space. Instead, hold the Option key (PC: Alt key), and then click the Save button. It will simply save your image and apply the settings you selected without closing the Camera Raw dialog. It’s faster, it’s funner, and it’s all gooder as well.

January 28th, 2008 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

How To Get Back Where You Started In Camera Raw

If you’ve made a number of adjustments in Camera Raw, and you’re not happy with them and just want to get back to where you started, go to the Camera Raw Settings pop-up menu (it’s just above the White Balance pop-up menu) and choose Camera Raw Defaults. That’ll put the photo back to how it looked when you opened it.

January 25th, 2008 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Making Your Photo Bigger? Do It In RAW!

Another advantage of working with RAW images comes when you need to make your image larger than the original. Of course, this is generally thought of as a big no-no because making a photo bigger than it’s original usually means a major loss of sharpness and quality, but if you’re shooting RAW, well…not so much. Well, not nearly as much. So, all you have to do is go to Camera Raw’s Workflow Options (in the bottom-left corner of the dialog), and from the Size pop-up menu choose a larger size (make sure you also choose 8 Bits/Channel for your depth), and you’ll get much better results from your forbidden upsizing than you would have if you tried to do the same thing in Photoshop using the Image Size dialog (under the Image menu).

January 24th, 2008 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (1)

Hiding Your Metadata From Others

If you’re providing photos to magazines, websites, or really just about anybody, you might want to strip out your metadata, or anybody with Photoshop will be able to learn a lot about you. For example, they’ll know what kind of camera and lens you have (including make and model), what day you took the photo, edited the photo, and so on. Luckily, stripping the data out is easy, because you don’t really strip it out. Just do this: Open the photo in Photoshop. Press Command-A (PC: Control-A) to select all, then press Command-C (PC: Control-C) to copy the photo into memory. Press Command-N (PC: Control-N) to create a new blank document in the same size, color mode, and resolution of your copied photo. Don’t change anything; just click OK. When the new document appears, press Command-V (PC: Control-V) to paste your copied photo into your new document. Press Command-E (PC: Control-E) to merge this image layer with your Background layer, and save the file. The embedded EXIF data is left behind, giving you a clean image with no personal data attached.

January 23rd, 2008 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Don’t Change Your Camera’s Color Space For RAW

If you’re shooting only in RAW (and not RAW+JPEG), then you don’t have to worry about changing the color space in your digital camera to match the edit space in Photoshop. That’s because you’ll actually choose the color profile that will be assigned to the photo right before you process the RAW file—it comes in “untagged.” It’s RAW after all, right? So choose your color profile from the Space pop-up menu in the bottom-left corner of the Camera Raw dialog before you open the image in Photoshop. (Note: If you don’t see the Space menu, turn on the Show Workflow Options checkbox.)

January 22nd, 2008 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

How About A JPEG With The Raw File? Oh, A TIFF Too?

If you decide that you want to create JPEGs from all your RAW images, the entire process is automated in CS2, but you don’t do it from Camera Raw—you do it within Photoshop. You start by going under Photoshop’s File menu, under Scripts, and choosing Image Processor. When the dialog appears, choose your folder of RAW photos, then choose the folder where you want the new JPEGs saved. In the third section, you choose the file type and the size you want your images to be. Do you want just JPEGs, or also TIFFs and PSDs as well? It’s up to you. If you like, you can apply an action to your images and a copyright while you’re at it. Once you’ve entered your preferences and click Run, Image Processor automatically creates separate folders (inside the folder you indicated in section two) for each type of file (JPEG, TIFF, or PSD).

January 21st, 2008 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Make It Always Fit In Camera Raw

Here’s a new viewing option—it’s called Fit in View. It’s found in the Zoom pop-up menu in the bottom-left corner of Camera Raw’s preview window, and when you select it, it displays your entire photo as large as it can in the preview area.

January 18th, 2008 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Use Your Favorite Navigation Shortcuts In Camera Raw

If you want to change the size of your preview window in Camera Raw, you can use most of the same keyboard shortcuts you already use in Photoshop. For example, to zoom in press Command–+ (Plus Sign) (PC: Control–+), and to zoom out press Command–- (Minus Sign) (PC: Control–-). To jump to Fit on Screen view, double-click on the Hand tool. To jump to 100% size, double-click on the Zoom tool. To temporarily get the Hand tool, press-and-hold the Spacebar, then click-and-drag within the preview area.

January 17th, 2008 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Bigger Previews In Camera Raw

If you want a larger preview window in Camera Raw, you’re only one click away. Just turn off the Show Workflow Options checkbox in the bottom-left corner of Camera Raw, and those options will be tucked out of site, and your preview area will be expanded.

January 16th, 2008 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Last-Minute Renaming In Raw

If you haven’t renamed your photos, and you’re busy processing them in Camera Raw, don’t sweat it—you’ll have an opportunity to rename them when you save them. In fact, when you choose Save in the Camera Raw dialog, the Save As screen that appears lets you batch rename the photos as they’re saved. Just type the name you want in the first field, then the numbering scheme you want to use (after all, they can’t all have the exact same name, right?).

January 15th, 2008 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

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Viewing and Basking in your Image

When I’m done working with an image, I like to sit and admire it (hey, I spent six hours working on it, I should). To do that, I hit the Tab key, then hit the F key three times. This hides all of the panels and toolbars and lets you see the image by itself surrounded by black. To get back to regular mode, press the F key and the Tab key one more time.

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