If you decide you always want JPEGs and TIFFs to open in Camera Raw (I sure do), you need to set that as a preference. Photoshop opens your image in Camera Raw (take a look at the top of the window where it shows the file name-you can see that even though the image is open in Camera Raw, it's a JPEG image). Click on it, then from the Format pop-up menu at the bottom of the Open dialog, choose Camera Raw, and click Open.
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If you want to open a single JPEG or TIFF image that's on your computer, go under the File menu in Photoshop, choose Open, then find the JPEG or TIFF image on your computer that you want to open. We'll then take a look at some of the minor differences between editing a JPEG or TIFF file versus a RAW file.
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So I thought I'd show you how to do just that, because it's not really obvious, and there are a couple of different ways to do it (and I think learning Camera Raw is the easiest and certainly fastest way to make your photos look the way you want them to look). You also get access to tools which aren’t available in Photoshop such as Clarity, and the Graduated Filter, Adjustment Brush and Radial Filter.This really surprises a lot of people, but you can shoot in JPEG or TIFF modes on your camera and still use Camera Raw just like you would with any RAW photo. This lets you limit the areas of the image which are sharpened to just the edges in the image and not areas of flat color. One is that you can use the filter to sharpen an image and take advantage of the Masking slider when sharpening in ACR. The Camera Raw filter offers some real benefits to Photoshop users. The benefits of using the Camera Raw filter This reopens the layer in ACR so you can make changes to the settings. You can also alter the Camera Raw Filter settings at any time by double clicking on the Camera Raw Filter entry in the layers palette. This feature is useful for adjusting the effect of a Gradient Filter where there are objects which fall inside the area affected by the filter that you don’t want to be affected by it. Paint with black on the mask to remove them and with white to reapply them. Notice that the Smart Object layer in Photoshop has its own layer mask so you can, if desired, use the layer mask to adjust the effects that you just applied to the image. Once you have made your changes click Ok to apply the changes to the image and return to Photoshop. The ACR filters are also available so you can use the Gradient Filter and the new Radial Filter to adjust the image. Other useful adjustments you can make include adjusting Highlights, Shadows, Whites and Blacks and Clarity – settings which are easy to access in ACR and less easy (or not available in the case of Clarity) in Photoshop.
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This is a fix that isn’t as easy to make in Photoshop itself. So you can, for example, adjust the white balance by clicking on the White Balance tool and click on something in the image which should be neutral gray. Now you can make your adjustments to the image using any of the tools in ACR. To apply the Adobe Camera Raw filter choose Filter > Camera Raw Filter. If you have multiple layers that you want to apply the filter to, then select those layers in the Layers palette before converting them all to the one Smart Object.
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Using Smart Objects ensures that the adjustments that you are about to make can be edited later on. To do this either right click the layer and choose Convert to Smart Object or choose Filter > Convert for Smart Filters.Įither way the result is the same and you will have a layer converted to a Smart Object. So that you can revisit and edit the changes made by the filter, start by converting the layer that you want the filter to act on into a smart object.
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To see how the Camera Raw filter works open any image in Photoshop CC.