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CAMERA RAW TIPS
- PUTTING YOUR FILMSTRIP
ALONG THE BOTTOM OF ACR
In the past whenever you opened multiple images in
Camera Raw, they always appeared vertically along
the left side of the window, but now, if you prefer, you
can have them appear along the bottom (a famil-
iar place for Lightroom users whose filmstrip has
always been along the bottom). Just Right-click on
any of the thumbnails, and from the pop-up menu
that appears, choose Horizontal under Filmstrip
Orientation. - REMOVING HOT SPOTS
If you see shiny areas on your subject’s face (known
as “hot spots” in retouching lingo), you don’t want
to just remove them, or you’ll be removing the high-
lights along with them. Instead, reduce the shininess
by using the Spot Removal tool (B) in Camera Raw
to completely remove the shiny area, then lower the
Opacity slider in the Spot Removal options panel
to bring back a little bit of the highlights, but stop
before you see the shininess. - GET A HISTOGRAM FOR THE MOST
IMPORTANT PART OF YOUR PHOTO
Camera Raw’s Histogram gives you a readout of the
entire image, which is fine in most cases, but if your
subject was shot on a black or white background (or at
night, or in snow), the Histogram reading isn’t going
to be much help in determining the exposure for your
subject and the most important part (the face). To get
around this, grab the Crop & Rotate tool (C), and drag
out a tight cropping border right around your subject’s
face (but don’t actually crop the image). With the crop-
ping border in place, if you look at the histogram now, it
shows you a readout for just what’s inside the cropping
border: your subject’s face. When you’re done looking,
just hit the Escape key and it removes the cropping bor-
der without cropping your image. - DE-BLUING DEHAZE
If you wind up applying a lot of Dehaze in Camera
Raw, you’ll notice one of the side effects is that it
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