Remember back when I wrote the post that covered the Magnetic Lasso Tool in Adobe Photoshop? In that post, I talked about how the tool in question sort of “snaps” to the edge of an object. What I mean is that, after you select the Magnetic Lasso Tool and begin tracing an outline, the selection […]
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.
How to Remove Face Blemishes in Adobe Camera Raw
In this post, let’s not get caught up in the definition of “blemish.” For the sake of learning about Adobe Camera Raw and its Spot Removal Tool, we’ll consider a blemish to be acne, a single zit, a freckle, a shadow, a spot on the wall – basically anything you’d like to remove, whether it […]
How to Add & Adjust a Border Vignette in Adobe Camera Raw
Vignettes are fun border effects that can be applied to photos to enhance the focus of interest. Oftentimes, photographers and editors will apply vignettes to portraits, landscape shots and photos that need something special accentuated. Oftentimes, the vignette will subtly draw the eye inward with a soft transition, but I’m increasingly seeing them as more […]
How to Add a Grain Effect to a Photo in Adobe Camera Raw
During the usual course of editing photographs, one of the tasks more often than not ends up as an attempt to reduce noise and clarify whatever it is that’s making the photo less than perfect. I know this. I’ve done it a thousand times. Either the photo wasn’t taken properly and I look for a […]
Colorizing Objects in a Photo with Adobe Camera Raw
Recently, I wrote a post that covered how to colorize specific areas or objects inside of Adobe Photoshop. That was a fun one to write. I love the mixture between black and white and color, especially when it comes to vibrancy. In my previous post, the object I colored was an orange. If you’d like […]
How To Create a Faded Photograph Look in Adobe Camera Raw
When it comes to manipulating the colors of a photograph, there’s no better place to go than Adobe Camera Raw’s HSL / Grayscale panel. There, you have everything you need, such as adjusting the Hue, Saturation and Luminance of eight colors. If you’d like to add saturation and vibrance, you can do that. If you’d […]
Using Snapshots to Save Versions in Adobe Camera Raw
The Snapshots panel in Adobe Camera Raw controls one of those hidden features that you’ll use over and over again, once you discover it’s there. It’s tucked away, sort of as an afterthought, over at the right side of the right column. I’m not sure why it’s all the way over there because, plainly put, […]
How to Save Tool Presets in Adobe Camera Raw
If you work with the Adjustment Brush, the Graduated Filter or the Radial Filter a lot in Adobe Camera Raw, you’ll want to read this post. And if you find yourself using any of these tools with the same or similar settings time and time again, you’ll really want to read this post. What I’m […]
Enhancing Photos with the Adjustment Brush in Adobe Camera Raw
Adobe Camera Raw has a number of great tools that really do a great job with assisting to enhance photos. I’ve already discussed two of these tools on this site. They are: How to Use the Radial Filter in Adobe Camera Raw Enhancing Photos with Graduated Filters in Adobe Camera Raw To continue on with […]
How to Create an HDR Image in Adobe Camera Raw
If you’ve been into shooting photos for any length of time, you’ve surely heard of HDR photograpy by now. If you haven’t, HDR stands for High Dynamic Range. I’ll attempt to explain what this means in the next paragraph. When you take a photo with your camera, that photo is locked into a specific dynamic […]