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now before we get into camera raw let us

first understand what is a raw photo so

here we have a raw potato what can you

make of it you can make fries you can

make mashed potatoes you can turn it

into chips now let's say you chose to

make chips you fried the whole thing

it's on a plate can you turn that chips

to mashed potatoes of course not can you

turn it back to a raw potato of course

not a raw photo is just like a raw

potato it's uncooked it's unprocessed

it's unedited it's exactly the way your

camera sensor captured it it has all the

information like dynamic range white

balance Etc let me share with you an

example so here we have a raw photo

let's drag it and drop it into Photoshop

once you do it will open up in camera

raw now as you can see the highlights

are Overexposed but if we decrease the

exposure have a look we recover all

those details so you have a whole lot of

dynamic range to work with you can

decrease the highlights all the way

through increase the Shadows all the way

through have all the contrast you want

on top of that you have all the white

balance information if you scroll down

and open up color right here the

temperature and the tint is set exactly

to the values that was in your camera

when you were capturing this photo you

can set the white balance to as sh and

if you click on the drop down you'll see

the settings from your camera so you can

set it to whatever you like let's set it

to as shot and as you work with the

temperature it is the same as working

with wide balance in your camera but the

jpeg on the other hand is not as

powerful as the raw because it is

already cooked you cannot uncook it to

this raw photo or potato let's open up

the jpeg version of the same image now

it's not going to open up in camera raw

you can go to filter and then camera raw

filter we're going to get to how to open

up jpex and Camera raw later but for

right now if you zoom in similarly

details and the highlights are gone if

you open up light and decrease the

exposure you will not get the details

back see it's beginning to show these

artifacts right here and it's just

fading it's not restoring anything

besides of course you don't have any

white balance information and changing

the white balance isn't the same have a

look there is no information right here

and even changing it isn't as natural as

changing in a raw photo so in all of

this what is camera raw camera raw is

simply a module to work with Raw photos

but you can also apply it to jpeg you

can also apply it as a filter it's a

bunch of Sliders and functions to help

you process photos that's all now how do

you access camera there are a couple of

ways and it can get a bit tricky so I

want you to understand this carefully

first is if you drag and drop a raw

photo into Photoshop or open a raw photo

in anyway in Photoshop it automatically

opens up in camera ra let's say you just

wanted to work the whites and the blacks

and the contrast now you have two

options you can either choose to click

on done and once you do it if you go

back to the folder and open the photo

again the raw photo you see the changes

is saved in that raw photo and you can

change it at any point in time the

second option is open if you click on

that it opens up in Photoshop for

further editing however if you open up a

JPEG file in Photoshop you already know

this it doesn't open up in camera raw so

how do you open JPEG files in camera raw

as well if you want that you can change

a little setting in Photoshop click on

Photoshop go to settings and then file

handling on a Windows edit preferences

file handling inside of that click on

camera Rob preferences and right here in

this drop down check automatically open

all supported jpegs and hc's hit okay

hit okay again now when you open up a

JPEG it also opens up in camera RW for

this image let's hit Auto right here

let's set the whites the exposure a

little bit and the blacks maybe the

Shadows a little less this is fine if

you click on done keep in mind it's a

JPEG but if you open that back up again

in Photoshop all of these settings are

still right here now from here you can

open it up in Photoshop and from here

you can do your retouching I already did

it so here's the before here's the after

if you want to learn more about dodging

and burning you can watch these videos

right here later another way you can

access an apply camera RW is as a filter

in this poster this subject is just not

fitting right so before we apply camera

raw as a filter let's convert this layer

into a smart object by going to filter

convert for smart filters hit okay this

is important so that when we apply

camera raw we can change the settings

later now let's go to filter and Camera

raw filter now inside of it you can do a

variety of changes first things first to

add that muscle drama let's change the

profile to monochrome and then let's

increase the contrast a hell lot make

the Shadows visible it's just going away

and then let's enhance it even more by

going to effects and just bump up the

clarity just like this you can also

increase the texture right here this

looks pretty darn fantastic already hit

okay once you're satisfied and there you

go It just fits right in now there's one

incredible camera raw trick that you

definitely must know if you love those

raw details so if you open up this raw

photo into Photoshop of course it opens

up in camera raw all of these settings

show up if you go to color white balance

information shows up it's all right

there but if you hit open here it is in

Photoshop and all of it is gone there is

no way I can get back to those settings

if you apply camera raw by going to

filter camera raw filter it's all gone

of course nothing is there so how do we

have the details the secret is smart

objects so when you open up this raw

photo into Photoshop and when you're

working with it in camer and once you

are done instead of clicking on open

right here if you hold the shift key it

turns to open object alternatively you

can click on the Arrow right here and

choose open as object up to you just

hold the shift key and if you click on

open object it opens as a smart object

now on top of it you can work with

whatever you want let's say you added a

curves adjustment layer on top of that

you added a hue saturation adjustment

layer and you increase the saturation on

top of that you created a color lookup

adjustment layer shows something like

crisp warm this is too much decrease the

opacity and now you decide you want to

go back and change the white balance

earlier we couldn't do that but right

now since we opened it as an object just

double click on the thumbnail of the

smart object layer and that exact raw

photo shows up with all the settings

still intact see the white balance

information is still intact and you can

just play with whatever you want let's

say you want it to decrease the

highlights there you go let's see you

wanted to increase the shadows and hit

okay the changes take effect

you think it's too much let's go back

and just mild it down like this here

okay there you go before we proceed

here's a very important setting that you

need to be aware of before working with

camera raw so when you open up a raw

photo or a JPEG photo in Photoshop and

it opens in camera raw you need to be

aware of the color space you're working

with or the color profile you're working

with so before hitting open right here

click right here and check what color

profile would you be opening the image

in if you're an advanced user you know

how to set this but if you're a beginner

or you're just starting out I highly

recommend setting it to srgb or adobe

RGB trust me even after using Photoshop

for 15 years

99.99% of the times Adobe RGB does the

job so set it to Adobe RGB for

Simplicity and set the depth to 16 bits

per channel so that you have more

details to work with and there will be

less of a banding issue when editing

your photos now as you become more and

more advanced depending upon what field

you get into whether it's print or web

you can start working with different

profiles but you'll know then for right

now set it to srgb or adobe RGB hit okay

and you're good to go now when you open

your image you'll notice that your image

has Adobe RGB color profile if you click

on the status Arrow right here choose

document profile have a look it is Adobe

RGB and it is RGB 16 bits per Channel

starting off with some basic functions

how do you reset it let's say you moved

a lot of Sliders exposure contrast

highlights changed a lot of settings the

profile the amount added a lot of masks

you wanted to completely reset it how do

you do that click on the three dots on

the side and then click on reset to

default and the image will be reset and

now if you're in deep deep regret of

resetting everything and you want to go

back so how do you undo and redo inside

of camera the same as Photoshop press

control or command Z or Zed however you

pronounce it to undo and to redo press

controller command shift and Z there you

go let's talk about a few slider

functions when adjusting a slider if you

want to reset it just double click on

the slider it's reset another way to

move a slider is hovering over the

parameter name and just dragging right

and left this also adjusts the slider

now while dragging to the right and left

while dragging keep that in mind not

before dragging while dragging while the

mouse or the tablet is held in if you

hold the shift key and then do that it

happens faster if you release the shift

key this is normal speed now here's

another shortcut if you want to

automatically set any of these

parameters just hold the shift key as

soon as you do that the names change so

instead of whites it says Auto whites

Auto Shadows Auto highlights so just

hold the shift key and click on it the

whites is automatically set click on

this the Shadows are automatically set

so you can click on any of these

parameters to set those automatically

now of course it's just a technical

correction not artistic and then you can

set it to your taste according to your

liking and work through what you want

now time for shortcuts if you're worried

about losing details so if you hold the

ALT key or the option key when working

the whites the moment you begin to see

the artifacts those are the areas where

you're losing details those areas are so

bright that it's clipping similarly if

you hold the ALT key of your the option

key when working with blacks see the

artifacts are the areas where we are

losing details due to Darkness because

it's so dark there is no detail

similarly you can work the highlights

and the Shadows you'll see the same

artifacts they will indicate you when

you're losing details you can choose to

stop or go beyond don't be afraid to do

that you're making art here now let's

say you have moved a lot of Sliders and

you want to check which areas are losing

details in the highlights and shadows so

you can press the letter O to see which

areas are losing details in the

highlights you can press the letter O

again to hide the indicators then you

can press the letter U to see which

areas are losing details in the shadows

and those areas are painted in blue so o

for the highlights U for the shadows and

you can turn those off by pressing U and

O and of course if you have done all the

hard work anyone want to take a look at

how far you have come or in other words

look at the before and after press p for

the before P again for after now zooming

and navigating is a bit different in

camera ra as opposed to photoshop just

click and drag to the right to zoom in

and to the left to zoom out if it's not

happening you want to make sure that the

zoom tool right here is selected once

zoomed in you can hold the space bar the

hand tool shows up to move around now

you might be thinking if you're not you

should be thinking how do I zoom in and

out if I'm using some other tool like a

brush mask or the healing brush tools

let's say we create a mask click on

create new mask and we're going to

choose brush now the brush tool is

selected as we are painting so how do we

zoom in and out you can press Zed or Z

to select the zoom tool zoom in and out

press Zed or Z again to get back to the

brush alternatively you can also press

control or command minus to zoom out

control or command plus to zoom in how

do you fit the canvas to the screen

controll or command zero just as in

Photoshop now let's introduce ourselves

to different sections inside of camera

raw now the camera raw module has

several sections which you'll find right

over here the first one activated

already is the edit section then you

have the crop section then you have the

healing section let's go through some of

them starting with the crop section as

you can see the image is not absolutely

straight so how do you make it straight

click on this button right there and

then drag a line along a line in the

image with should have been straight

there you go it's straight again then

you can of course crop it according to

your liking as much as you like then you

can rotate it flip it that's up to you

if you want to maintain the original

aspect ratio you can keep it locked so

now when you adjust it it's locked if

you unlock it you can move it anywhere

you want all right you can also choose

the aspect ratio like 1 is to 1 4 is to

5 that's all up to you now do keep in

mind that sections like crop and

snapshot only show up when you first

open an image inside of camera raw not

camera raw as a filter so let's say you

applied all of this you clicked on open

let's make a copy of the background Li

let's go to filter convert for smart

filters hit okay let us not forget it

then go to filter camera raw filter when

applied as a filter you'll see that the

crop and the snapshot is gone now maybe

I know what you're asking just maybe

what what are snapshots well let's say

this is your version in the light

section you increase the contrast and

then you went to color mixer you did a

few changes here and there in the

oranges so this is your version you want

to save this version you go to snapshots

you click on this button right here this

version is saved let's name it colorful

now let's say you want to create a

different version you go back right here

and you make it black and white

monochromatic now let's go to light

increase a lot of contrast and then you

go to effects and increase a lot of

clarity right here then go back to light

did a lot of changes and this is your

black and white version you also like

this version so you go back to snapshots

again and click on this button again

let's name it

bnw so this is your black and white

version this is your color version both

of them are in the same file even if you

click on done it's closed you open that

file again in camera ra if you go to

snapshots see both of them are right

here now let's move to the healing

section which is used for removing stuff

the shortcut to which is B right here by

the way if you want to know the shortcut

of anything just hover over it it will

give you an animation of what it does it

will give you an explanation and the

shortcut even for parameters like these

like whites or blacks just hover over

them and animation will show up and also

the explanation right over here so why

do you even need channels like these

just go to the healing section and then

if you want to remove something let's

say I want to remove this wing of a

plane I wouldn't do that but let's say

you wanted to remove that first of all

let's try the content aware remove tool

it automatically removes automatically

samples different areas to fill this

area with so let's paint over this area

just like that don't forget these

engines turbines and stuff now it's not

very good if you want to remove big and

complicated stuff I highly recommend

doing that in Photoshop let's say you

don't like the results you can click on

refresh now it will sample a different

area for you you can keep trying refresh

if you still don't like it move to the

next tool that is the heel tool here you

will Define which areas to sample from

so you can move it around let's say

this is the area I want to sample from

but there is not enough areas but you

get the point let's say I want to sample

from this area it tries to match it it

tries to do its best but it is what it

is and then you have the Clone tool

which is just a copy and paste in a

brush that's all if you place it here

it's just a copy and paste in a brush of

course you can feather it out a little

bit but it's a simple copy paste again

for Big Stuff do it in Photoshop for

small stuff which is why I have this

image right here let's delete delete

this select that area and press the

delete key for small stuff like there

might be some sensor dust in the sky

this is important now right now it is so

hard to find where the sensor dust is

you can visualize them by checking

visualize spots move these sliders to

figure out exactly where they are so

right here we have a sensor dust right

here we have a sensor dust again so

select the content of a remove let's

make this brush smaller you can change

the size an opacity from right here just

do that gone do that Gone Gone Gone Gone

by the way with all of these pins and

markers showing up if you want to hide

them you can always press V it's hidden

if you want to bring them back if you

want to see which areas are being

selected and which areas we have painted

you can press V again to bring it back

now let me introduce you to the edit

section the main section of camera raw

if you are in any other section press e

to go back to the edit section this is

where the main stuff happens now the

edit section is divided into several

different panels and each panel has its

own purpose it's pretty self-explanatory

if you want to adjust the lights go to

the light section if you want to adjust

color go to the color section effects

for effects section details if you want

to sharpen everything so everything is

self-explanatory although they are

self-explanatory there's so much we can

do with it that each panel deserves its

own lesson I'm going to share with you

my perspective of playing and I

underline playing with this particular

image in this image the biggest thing I

see a Miss is the overall color it needs

to be a little warmer so let's start by

correcting the white balance let's go to

the color section and select the white

balance tool right here and click on an

area which should have been neutral or

gray in real life not color so I think

this would be an area and there you go

you can try clicking different areas

which you think should have been gray

but this area works just fine and just

by doing that look at the Improvement

here's the before here's the after now

we can work with light her t-shirt is

way too bright and it's taking the

attention away from the face so let's

take the highlights down just like that

not too much and you can take the

Shadows up we want the face to be a bit

even you can also take the whites up to

add a bit of brightness and maybe the

blacks up as well this creates a

slightly faded brighter Airy feel you

can also increase the contrast a little

bit there you go that makes it pop

slightly our attention goes towards the

brighter areas and away from the darker

areas and to draw the attention more

towards the subject let's add a vignette

effect let's scroll down open up effects

and in the vignette section let's take

it to the left there you go now this is

not the shape that I like so let me give

you a tip decrease the feather all the

way to the left hand side just to see

what shape it is then play with the

roundness and the midpoint and adjust it

accordingly then use the feather right

here let me adjust the roundness then

use the feather to soften it all out

just like that I'm going to take the

midpoint a little bit towards the outer

side and there you go and if you want to

have a look at the before and after of a

particular section only you can use this

I right here to toggle the visibility so

here's before and here's the after

attention goes straight in maybe not too

much maybe just a little bit might be

enough now we already touched upon

Curves in Photoshop in previous lessons

and by the way if you want to learn more

about Curves in Photoshop here's a

complete mastering guide but in here in

camera there's also curves so why not

take advantage of it let's open it up

and you can just move the curves just as

you would do in Photoshop simply the

right side represents the bright areas

the left side represents the dark areas

if you create a point on the right hand

side and take it up it makes the bright

areas brighter if you create a point on

the left hand side and take it down it

makes the dark areas darker thus

increasing the contrast if you want to

remove a point just click and drag it

all the way up now another easier way to

adjust it is using the targeted

adjustment tool right here just select

it right and then all you got to do by

the way let's Zoom zoom in a little bit

let's say you want to brighten this

particular area this level so just click

and if you drag it to the right

automatically that point is created it

will be brightened and then I want to

darken areas like this so I want to

create a point click and drag to the

left just very slightly that's nice and

for the bright areas I want to introduce

some yellows blue is the opposite of

yellow remember RGB opposite of cmy red

red is the opposite of cyan green is the

opposite of magenta blue is the opposite

of yellow so let's go to Blue section it

says yellow right here let's bring the

point on the right hand side because

right hand side represent the bright

areas let's bring it down let's add some

yellow in the highlights there you go it

looks amazing now let's go to the Reds I

think these areas have too much Reds so

click and drag it slightly very slightly

to the left hand side and for the greens

I think these areas are getting too

greenish click and drag it slightly to

the left hand side very very slightly

and just like that it creates a

marvelous effect now if you want to

Target specific colors you can go to the

color mixer you can change the Hue

saturation and luminance of all colors

let's say there's Green in the

background right you want to make it

more saturated let's go to saturation

and just make the greens more saturated

you can also play with it in the image

click on the targeted adjustment right

here and go to the green areas and there

you go it moves the sliders of all the

colors that fall into that area

accordingly let's reset both of them

let's just move it from right here there

we go now the background is wonderfully

saturated you can also change the

luminance of those areas so you can make

them brighter darker up to you I'm going

to make them slightly brighter and Hue

as well you can make it more greenish or

more yellowish that's up to you I'm

going to keep it this way and just like

that this is Magic let's go to The Masks

section just as in Photoshop masks allow

you to apply an effect to only a

particular area the shortcut to which is

there you go it will show up M press M

by the way when you're working with any

tool inside of the edit section for

example inside of the color section the

white balance tool right here or inside

of the color mixer this targeted

adjustment this will be selected even if

you move to different panels so you want

to make sure that after you're done with

the tool you select any other tool or

you deselect it just like that all right

now let's go to the mask section now

there are lots of ways you can create a

mask you can use the brush you can draw

in a gradient or use AI masking if you

click on the subject the subject is

masked let's go back by pressing control

or command Z if you click on people

right here this person you have a lot of

options you can can choose facial hair

body skin so there is a mask right now

of just the facial hair and the body

skin together if you want to select the

lips you can do that if you want to

select the teeth you can do that lots of

different face let's hit cancel for now

the very first issue that I see with

this image is that the eye area is too

dark now of course you can select the

eye using AI but that rhymed but I want

to select the eye area entirely I want

to use the radial gradient let's draw in

a gradient like this that's all this is

simply a mask in the eye socket if you

want to see the Border press V to see it

and then you can adjust it to your

liking you can move it around now let's

add one more now this is one mask right

here inside of it you can just add and

subtract a bunch of things let's add

another radial gradient and we can add

it just right here now if you want to

hide the red overlay you can check this

button if you want to show it check it

again as soon as you start adjusting it

it will go away anyway so let's increase

the exposure that is getting better now

I would also increase the feather of

these so let's select this one and

there's a Feathering option I want to

increase it all the way up for this one

as well I want to increase the

Feathering all the way up now let's work

with the exposure there you go let's

hide it press V to hide it I don't want

to see overlay so uncheck that now let's

adjust the other settings let's increase

the Shadows just this much and that is

very very realistic you can take down

the blacks a little bit maybe increase

the exposure a slight bit want to have a

look at the before and after before and

after of this mask so here's the before

here's the after so much better isn't it

now if you want to decrease or increase

the overall effect whatever you did

right here more like opacity in

Photoshop you can play with with the

amount so this is more natural if you

want to go over what you did more like

the equivalent of duplicating the

adjustment in Photoshop you can increase

the amount as well so I'm going to keep

it at about 100 100 was fine now with

all of the adjustments we have added the

teeth has become a little bit yellowish

so let's make it brighter by creating

another mask by clicking on this button

create new mask and we will choose

people right here because then we get

the option to set select the teeth there

you go make sure teeth is selected click

on create now you can just increase the

exposure slightly not too much now

because it's yellowish let's make it

bluish decrease the temperature that's

all just like that you want to have a

look at the before and after so here is

the after and here is the before that's

the difference if you want to reduce the

overall effect just decrease the overall

amount amount at the top to make it more

and more natural I'm going to keep it at

about 80 that's fine now let's create

another mask with just the skin so here

facial skin body skin and also the lips

and the eyebrows because otherwise that

would be left out all right there you go

the whole thing let's click on create

all I want to do here is to bring up the

highlights slightly and the Shadows

slightly to make it even you can play

with the whites a bit and take down the

blacks for added contrast and that does

add some value too now let's move to

presets you already know what it is it

just creates a preet of all of the

settings that we have done right here

when you're creating a preset if you're

opening a preset created by someone else

it loads a preet of all of these

settings all right so let's say you want

to save this as a preset let's go to the

presets section the shortcut to which is

shift p and right here we have several

several presets built in first let's

save this as a preset for it let's click

on this button called create preset and

now you can choose what do you want to

include in your preset for example for

this image you have made some white

balance Corrections do you want to

include it because all of your images

are similar or do you not want to

include it because most of your images

have very different white balances

that's your your call I want to include

everything by the way you also get to

choose whether you want to include the

masking because it can be very different

from image to image inside of that you

can choose different things like let's

just do the teeth or let's not do

anything I don't want to include any

masking for this one and let's name this

pix

outdoor 4 because I did it before and

you can keep these presets inside of a

group let's create a new group let's

name it pix test hit okay and okay there

you go now there's this pix test group

inside of that you'll find pix outdoor 4

pretty cool now there are several other

presets that come built into camera raw

there are adaptive presets which include

AI masking for example you want to make

just the subject pop there you go this

is how you do it just hover over the

preset to see what they're doing there

are other presets for example portraits

edgy portraits this one this one this

one just hover over them see what they

do and if you like a preset let's say

you like this preset you can click on it

and you can choose the amount you want

to apply so you want more of it or less

of it that's up to you let's go back to

how it was this was our edit hit okay so

here is the before and here is the after

night and day difference and if you

think it's too much here's the

flexibility you can always decrease the

opacity I'm going to keep keep it all

the way up now the camera ra has tons

and tons and tons of feature just the

introduction took so much time and this

was just it but one thing to keep in

mind is this just because you have all

the tools and all the options and all

the gizmos and

features doesn't mean that you have to

use all of them use just the ones that

you need for example in this case there

was Optics there was lens blur there was

color grading which allows you to add

highlight color shadow color and all

that stuff but we don't need it right

here sometimes just for the sake of

applying everything and not missing out

we overdo stuff when I was a little kid

and my parents used to take me to a

restaurant I used to take every single

ketchup bottle sauce bottle and put that

on my food and it completely destroyed

it every single time I didn't want to

miss out I didn't want to miss out on

tasting this sauce and that sauce and

that ketchups and it completely

destroyed the taste so don't do that but

don't be afraid to experiment as well

everything is undoable unlike the food

so that my friend is the magic of camera

raw it all started with this raw potato

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