- Save your changes. When you’re happy with your white bal-
ance settings, you’ll want to save your work. But how you do
this may surprise you. First, let’s review the buttons along the
bottom of the interface:- Open Images opens all the selected images inside Photo-
shop, where you can perform further edits.
- Open Images opens all the selected images inside Photo-
Press and hold the Shift key to change Open Images to Open Objects.
Clicking this button opens the raw image as a smart object, thus
permitting you to modify your Camera Raw settings well into the
future. For more information about smart objects, see “Working with
Smart Objects,” which begins on page 227 of Lesson 7.- The Cancel button abandons all the adjustments you’ve
made during the session. - On the far left, Save Images allows you to save the processed
images to a different file format and a different location on
your hard drive. - Done saves your changes as metadata instructions (which
are stored with the original DNG files), closes Camera Raw,
and returns you to the Bridge.
We don’t need to work in Photoshop, so click Done. A moment
later, you should see the Bridge thumbnails update dynamically
to reflect your changes, as in Figure 9-11. (If the images don’t up-
date—it can take a few seconds—choose Tools→Cache→Purge
Cache For Folder “Raw Images” to rebuild the cache and gener-
ate new thumbnails.) The slider icon ( ) in the top-right corner
of each thumbnail (circled in the top image in Figure 9-11) tells
you that the corresponding file has been altered. These changes
will be understood by any application that reads Camera Raw
metadata, including (but not limited to) the Bridge, Photoshop,
and Lightroom.
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Note that while each DNG file has been updated, not a single pixel in
these files has been harmed or otherwise changed. All the adjustments
have occurred parametrically, meaning you can revisit your settings, make
additional changes without penalty, and even go back to the image’s original
state. You cannot permanently alter an image in Camera Raw.
Figure 9-11.306 Lesson 9: Pro Photography Tools