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Sally Jane Photographic ArtAdobe Photoshop Tutorial |
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Working with RAW filesStep 3 - Using ACR (Adobe Camera RAW) Fine Tuning Your ImagesOK so we have looked at the tools available in ACR now it's time to get out hands dirty. I have taken a batch of shots and deliberately not paid too much atention to their exposure so I can use them for this tutorial. I will show you how you can apply changes as a batch or individually and how you can ssave preset custom settings to apply with just one click. I can't explain every tool in detail as it will take too long but I will go through all the main ones reasonable thoroughly and try and touch on the rest. You should have a sufficiently good understanding of how it all works by the time you have finished this tutorial to be able to experiment with anything I have left out but if there are specific topics you would like me to cover that I have missed or just explain better do please e-mail me. My details are at the bottom of each page. |
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Above is the kind of display you will get when you open up a batch of images in ACR. Remember if you only open up one image at a time you will not see the thumbnail view down the left hand side. Creating and Using Presets
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ACR Sharpening & Noise Reduction HSL/Grayscale tools (Hue, Saturation and Luminance) ACR Top Menu Bar (Crop, rotate and blemis removal etc) |
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Recommended Further Reading for PhotoshopReturn to introduction & contents page
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lens and for the sake of this tutorial I am going to say that in general the images taken with it require a small amout of sharpening, a contrast boost and 
a little extra vibrancy. So first I click on the sharpening tab which is the third from the left and looks like two triangles (see left). By increasing the size of the image in the preview window to 100% I can see the sharpening changes take effect. Sharpening in ACR is quite subtle. I'll move the amount up to 75 and leave the rest as they are. Just enough to give that little bit extra punch without it actually noticing that I've sharpened it. Now I'll go back to the Exposure settings window or 'Basic' as it is called, by clicking on the far left tab that looks like an iris (shown right). I shall move the Contrast slider to +45 and the Vibrance to +10. OK that's all I want to do for a general fix for this lens so now lets save this as a preset. 
If you look at the title bar just below the tabs you will see on the far right a tiny icon that looks like a paragraph format icon with a tiny black triangle next to it. Click on this to bring out a another window with a list of options (see left). Towards the bottom of the list is one that says 'Save Settings' Select this to be taken to another window that asks you to select wich settings you want to save (see below).
Now when I go back to the presets window my new preset is listed with the others. 
Click on 'Apply Preset' and another window will fly out listing all your presets. Select the one you want and all those changes will be updated on the images you selected automatically. 