Camera Raw

Have you ever wondered how to alter a photo so it appears that you changed the time of day it was taken? For instance, perhaps you captured a scene in the morning some time, but needed it to look like you took it during the evening. Not completely dark, mind you, but just as the […]

I feel like I’m in the mood to whiz through a typical workflow, just to show you what goes on during any average day for a photo editor or graphic designer. I’d like to include very basic tasks that will bring you comfort if you’re new to all of this. So much that we do […]

Have you ever seen one of those really colorful and wonderful looking sunset photos where things look so vibrant and perfect that you’re left wondering how the photographer was lucky enough to own the best equipment and how he or she arrived at the scene at just the perfect moment to capture it? I sure […]

I think I’ll go through a quick project today. I’m in the playful sort of mood. So many posts I write are about really technical aspects of photography, Photoshop and that sort of thing, so I think a slight deviation is in order. I’ve decided that today, I’ll alter the color of someone’s sweatshirt. Just […]

A while back, I wrote a post that talked about the HSL/Grayscale panel in Adobe Camera Raw. The HSL section of this panel is a place that gets more and more attention the better someone becomes at editing. Primarily, newer editors stick with making the majority of their changes to a photo in the Basic […]

If you’ve been working with Adobe applications for any amount of time, you surely know that there are many methods for getting the same result. How do I open a file? That’s easy. Pick one of these seven ways. How do I make a selection? That’s easy, four tools and ten strategies later, you’ll have […]

I can’t even count how many times I’ve worked on a photo inside of Adobe Camera Raw and when half way through, I told myself that I wanted to scrap everything I have done so far and start over. If you’ve been editing for any length of time, you’ve surely experienced something like this. It’s […]

Let’s face it, much of what we do on a daily basis in Adobe Camera Raw, Lightroom and Photoshop is repetitive. Oftentimes, what happens is, something that starts out as really exciting and fun, inevitably turns into, well, work. And being work, we try to be as efficient as possible when it comes to finishing […]

If you’re into architecture photography (or any photography that needs to be straight, for that matter), you need to read this post. Adobe Camera Raw has the absolute best tool to help out when it comes to correcting lens distortion. I know I’ve discussed this topic in the past, but this tool tops everything I’ve […]

One of the tools I use almost every single time I edit a photograph in Adobe Camera Raw is the Clarity tool. It’s rather awesome and I’m not sure where I’d be without it. For those of you who don’t know what this tool is or what it does, Clarity adds midtone contrast to an […]