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MartinEvening
Martin is a
commercial
photographer,
best known for
his knowledge
of Photoshop and
Lightroom and as
an author on digital imaging. His books
include The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
Classic CC Book and Adobe Photoshop
CC for Photographers 2018. Visit http://www.
photoshopforphotographers.com.ALL PiCTures © MArTin eVening
C
amera Raw first
began life as a
plug-in for Adobe
Bridge that allowed
photographers to process their
raw photos via Bridge, rather
than rely on proprietary raw-
processing software. Since then
Camera Raw has evolved to
become a sophisticated image
editor in its own right as well
as providing the core image
processing in Lightroom. Since
the first release of Photoshop
CC, it has also been possible to
apply Camera Raw as a filter
to RGB or greyscale images,
in place of regular image
adjustments such as Curves or
Hue/Saturation. Some might
argue that Camera Raw editing
is already available for non-raw
images, but this is limited to
flattened files saved in the
TIFF or JPEG format. And,
to be honest, the preference
options can make this a really
confusing process. Therefore,
the Camera Raw filter can be
a much simpler alternative. In
some ways the Camera Raw
filter offers a similar scope to
what you can do in Lightroom
when editing non-raw files,
except that in Photoshop,
the Camera Raw filter can
be used to target individual
layers, or individual image
channels as well.
The Camera Raw filter can
only be applied to RGB or
greyscale images that don’t
exceed 65,000 pixels in
either dimension. To applyc asions
The excellent image editor Camera Raw can
be used as a Photoshop filter. Martin Evening
shows you how to make best use of it