Adobe Camera Raw Tips, Tutorials & Techniques

It’s funny – when you ask yourself what a black and white photo is, you most likely answer that it’s a photo with no color. In some respects, you’d be correct. The thing is, in many black and white photos, there was color. It’s just that you removed it with one tool or another. Believe […]

This is one of those posts you’re going to want to print out and keep in your back pocket for frequent use. If you’re a busy photo editor, you definitely want to know how to edit more than one photo at a time in Camera Raw. This is otherwise known as batch processing. This technique […]

Every time I open a photo in Adobe Camera Raw for editing, I’m sure to follow a certain sequence of events to end up with the result I’m after. First, I want to make sure the contrasts are good. I work in the Basic panel for a while, adjusting the exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, etc…to […]

Have you ever seen a printed photograph, or one online for that matter, that had jagged edges throughout some of its gradients? Usually, this will occur is the color space is very small, but it’ll also occur if the dynamic range inside a photo has been clipped. You can usually tell if it’s been clipped, […]

I’d like to begin this post by telling you that the techniques I use for batch-adjusting white balance in Camera Raw can be used for any type of editing. For example, if you wanted to edit the saturation or contrast of multiple photos simultaneously, you can follow the instructions I’m about to give you below. […]

Fixing white balance is usually the first area I work on after I open a photo in Adobe Camera Raw. There’s a reason these particular sliders appear at the top of the list of those included in the Basic panel. There’s little you can do to a photo if the actual color temperature isn’t accurate. […]

In today’s post, I’m going to be adjusting some of the sliders in the HSL/Grayscale panel to see what kind of effect they will have on a few example photos. If you aren’t aware, “HSL” stands for Hue, Saturation and Luminance. Let me give you some definitions of exactly what these are below. Hue – […]

To be honest, I flip back and forth between the “Straighten Tool” in Camera Raw and the same one in Photoshop. They both work pretty much the same way. I guess it depends on my mood. If you’re interested in how to straighten a photo in Photoshop, check out this post: How To Straighten a […]

There are a few sliders in Camera Raw that are sort of mislabeled. The “Clarity” slider is one of them. I think people most often confuse the Clarity feature in Camera Raw with the Sharpen feature in Photoshop. That’s okay because they sort of offer similar features. What I’ve been reading and hearing about Camera […]

I usually reserve all my photo cropping for Adobe Photoshop, but I wanted to write a post to show that Camera Raw has many of the same capabilities. Actually, the crop features in both applications look strikingly similar. They’re even non-destructive, which is a huge bonus. If you haven’t already, please take a look at […]