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Four ways to bring
out raw beauty
The Camera Raw Filter provides a way
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James Abbott
James is a professional
photographer who
specialises in landscape
and portraits. He’s an
advanced Photoshop
user and has created
hundreds of tutorials.here are some new features
brought to Photoshop that
might leave photographers
wondering, “What’s the point
of this?” The Camera Raw
Filter is one such feature. If you shoot raw
and process your images in Camera Raw or
Lightroom, how could a filter offering the
exact same controls as a filter be of any
use? As it turns out, though, the Camera
Raw Filter offers huge advantages, both to
photographers who shoot JPEGs in-camera
and to those who shoot and edit raw files.
For the former, the filter provides easy-
to-use controls that make a wide range of
important adjustments available; and using
the filter could lead to these photographers
gaining the confidence to shoot and edit in
raw. For the latter, once an image has been
processed and possibly edited further in
Photoshop, the Camera Raw Filter provides
the chance to add specific effects without
the need to go back to the original raw file
and effectively start again. Here we’ll look
at four different effects you can achieve...T
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GET THE LOOK1
Sophisticated warm-up
Press Ctrl/Cmd+J to duplicate
the Background Layer. Next, go
to Filter > Camera Raw Filter;
when the dialog box opens, click on the
Graduated Filter. Drag the filter guide from
just above the horizon to just below it, then
set Range Mask to Luminance and set the
left Luminance Range slider to 70. Click on
the Color box and select orange before
clicking OK. Click the main OK button to
close the Filter. Finally, set Temperature
to +10 and Highlights to -20.FILE & VIDEO
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