Lynda - Adobe Camera Raw Essential Training

Camera Raw is more than a plugin. It's a powerful photo editing tool in its own right, capable of taking your photos from raw material to polished gems. In this course, Adobe evangelist Julieanne Kost takes you through all of Camera Raw's capabilities, from fixing common but vexing problems to finding more creative uses for the program's rich and nondestructive editing tools. Learn how to correct color, fix perspective problems, and enhance detail and contrast to make images come alive. Then find out how to make localized color corrections, custom black-and-white images, and even panoramas and HDR composites. If you're interested in becoming more efficient in Camera Raw, Julieanne also includes a chapter on using presets, synchronization, and batch processing to automate some of your corrections.

Topics include:

Comparing raw and JPEG files

Correcting lens distortion and perspective correction

Removing chromatic aberration

Cropping and straightening a tilted horizon

Fixing color cast with the White Balance tool

Revealing shadow and highlight detail

Sharpening and reducing noise

Removing haze and adding clarity

Making localized adjustments

Converting to black and white

Emulating film grain

Adding vignettes

Retouching portraits: skin, eyes, and teeth

Automating corrections

Merging images for panoramas or HDR images