Adobe Camera Raw Tips, Tutorials & Techniques

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 […]

White balance, in regards to photography, is one of those areas that’s sort of confusing for people to grasp. I think you can wrap your head around it a bit if you think of white balance as the method cameras use to adjust for color temperature. I’ve written about white balance on this site, so […]

Oftentimes, while reviewing photos we’ve taken, we don’t notice how distorted, or altered, they really are. Lenses are funny things and it’s not until we go through each and every photograph in an image editor that has the capabilities of correcting lens distortion that we discover exactly what’s going on. Adobe Camera Raw offers lens […]