- Apply a few adjustments. The right side of the window now
sports a Graduated Filter window, which includes a sampling
of the options we’ve seen so far. Here are the settings I recom-
mend (subject to your interest in applying them, of course):- Raise the Exposure value to +1.00 to brighten the rocks
and other foreground objects. - Increase the Brightness value to +75.
- Take the Contrast, Saturation, and Clarity values up to
+25. Any reason for this parity? Easy to replicate and the
result looks great. - Finally, click the swatch to the distant right of the word
Color. This brings up the Color Picker pictured in the
bottom-right corner of Figure 9-19. You can select any color
you like. But for the sake of simplicity, click the light yel-
low swatch in the bottom-right corner—just to the right
of white—and then click OK. The result is the warmed up
image shown in the figure’s Preview window.
- Raise the Exposure value to +1.00 to brighten the rocks
To get a sense of just what a difference you’ve made, turn off and on
the Preview check box or press the P key. Turn off the Show Overlay
check box or press V to hide the interface folderol.- Accept your changes. Click Done. The Bridge updates to re-
flect your changes, and the Carscape.dng thumbnail receives a
to show that the Camera Raw metadata has been modified. - Open an image with specks and blemishes. The
spot removal tool allows you to retouch defects
and unwanted details in a digital photograph, a
quick and easy alternative to the power-healing we did in
Lesson 4, “Retouch, Heal, and Enhance.” Start by selecting
the thumbnail Boat & beach.dng in the Raw Images folder
and press Ctrl+R (or �-R) as we have so many times before. - Automatically adjust the exposure settings. Click the Auto but-
ton in the Basic panel to instruct Camera Raw to automatically
correct the brightness and contrast of the image. Although subject
to the whims of a robot mind, the adjustments work well enough
for this image. My only manual imposition is to raise the Recovery
value to 30 to suit my taste, as in Figure 9-20 on the next page.
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