This is a tool I really like because it gives a nice punch to your photos but it’s easy to overdo it and having them look unnatural, so just be careful. This will flatten the image as there will be less tonal range in between dark and light tones in your image.Ī few sliders below Contrast you’ll find Clarity. Moving it to the left will decrease contrast, therefore a minus (-) sign appears.
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If you slide it to the right you will increase the contrast which is why a plus sign (+) will appear next to the amount. The next slider you’ll find is Contrast, this refers to the relationship between the lighter and darkest areas of your photo. Look at the example below to see how far you can push it in either direction. What this does influence the brightness of your entire image. This would be the equivalent of changing your shutter speed or f-stop settings up to five steps up or down. The first slider you will see is Exposure. Please note, that I’m not going to explain the tools in the order you’ll find them in the ACR panel because some of them are related to each other and therefore it’s clearer to explain them together regardless of their position. However, if you do so then you’re missing out on a lot of opportunities, most importantly its non-destructive qualities. Here you’ll see a lot of options that can look intimidating and give you the impulse to just click open and work directly on Photoshop. It will open it in a window known as Above Camera Raw (ACR).
Whenever you open a RAW file in Photoshop it won’t open in the interface that would normally go to when opening a JPG or a TIF file. This quick introduction guide explores the basic tools of Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) so that you can step into post-processing this digital “negative” and understand its possibilities but also its limitations, as not all can be fixed. Adobe Camera Raw – Processing Raw Files in Photoshop
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This way you have more information to work with during your post-production stage.īut having too much of something can sometimes seem daunting when you don’t know how to approach it and as a result be a limiting factor instead of opening up your possibilities. Do you shoot RAW but then open it without processing? When you take a photo in RAW format, regardless of the name each brand gives to it, what you’re doing is saving a bunch of data without processing it inside your camera.
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