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Adobe Camera Raw Tips, Tutorials & Techniques

The Adobe Camera Raw section includes posts and articles that cover tips, tutorials and best practices for various areas of opening, editing and exporting files and photographs inside and from Camera Raw. Discussion includes how to effectively utilize this photo and graphic plugin software in photographic post-processing to best enhance your images. Additional topics include how to work effectively inside of Camera Raw, whether it be on enhancing, correcting, creatively enriching or simply viewing photos.

Going From Dawn to Dusk in Adobe Camera Raw

May 4, 2018

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 […]

Editing & Creating Presets During a Typical Adobe Camera Raw Workflow

May 2, 2018

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 […]

Creating Colorful Sunset Photos in Adobe Photoshop & Camera Raw

April 22, 2018

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 […]

The Idea Behind Smart Filter Masks & Blending Modes in Adobe Photoshop

April 8, 2018

I’d like to take a quick break from all the demonstrations I’ve been recently working through on this website and get back to an area that might need more explaining. I talk a lot about Smart Filters throughout many of my posts and I realized the other day that not everyone knows exactly what these […]

Using the Camera Raw Filter & Masking in Adobe Photoshop

March 30, 2018

I’ve got the itch to mess around in Adobe Photoshop again today and I found the perfect photo to work with. I’d like to alter the photo in such a way that I’d end up with one part of it darkened and another part of it reduced in expansiveness. Of course, this means nothing to […]

Editing Video in Adobe Photoshop & Camera Raw

March 28, 2018

This is one of those posts that is going to wow you. I’m going to share something today that I’m almost certain you didn’t know you could accomplish so easily. If you use Adobe Photoshop to edit and output your video, I think you’ll enjoy what I have to say. And if you already use […]

How to Change the Color of Clothing in Adobe Camera Raw

February 17, 2018

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 […]

Using Targeted Adjustments with Hue, Saturation & Luminance in Adobe Camera Raw

January 1, 2018

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 […]

Creative Workflows Between Camera Raw & Adobe Photoshop

December 13, 2017

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 […]

How to Reset Edit Settings Back to Default in Adobe Camera Raw

November 14, 2017

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 […]