Adobe Camera Raw Tips, Tutorials & Techniques

I love writing this post because what I’m about to cover is a very popularly searched topic online. Many, many photographers and enthusiasts need to know how to smooth skin in their favorite photo editors. In just a few moments, I’ll demonstrate exactly how to go about doing it. Before I get into that though, […]

I want to share a few quick tips today that are often overlooked when editing photos in Adobe Camera Raw using the Adjustment Brush Tool. The tips have to do with how to go about deleting adjustments in their entirety as well as how to erase only part of an adjustment. When erasing, there are […]

Have you ever seen a photo of a model in a glamour magazine with yellow teeth? Me neither. What about a high end wedding photograph? Nope, not there. How about someone who’s showing off the latest clothing in a fashion shoot? Didn’t think so. The fact is, whether we’re aware of it or not, not […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]