Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS- P6

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Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS- P6132 Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS Working with saved settings subsets. Often, I need to apply more individualized settings to each image, so one of the first things I did when I first started working with Camera Raw was to save subsets of settings that I could apply to images. In addition to creating Calibrate settings, Ive created saved settings for exposure adjustmentsin 0.25-stop increments, and Brightness and Contrast adjustments in increments of 10 units-see Figure 4-21. Ive played with savingwhite Balance adjustments, but thus far Ive found them less useful because I usually need to adjust the Tem- perature andTint controls interactively. But I almost invariablyshoot with available light. If you shoot in the studio under controlled lighting, you may find it worthwhile to save White Balance settings too. See Saving Settings in Chapter 3, Using Camera Raw. Figure 4-21 Working with saved8ettinga Ihese settings areall saved as presets in Camera Raws Presets folder. Each one updates a single parameter,Exposure, Brightness, or Contrast. Obviously theres a trade-off between the number of settings you save and the ease with which you can find and apply them. I you create hun- f dreds of subsets, your Camera Raw Settings menu will become very long and unmanageable.After youve spent some time applying settings from the Fie Browser, it should be apparent which settings are really useful to you and exactly what trade-off you need to make between the number of saved settings and the usability of the Camera Raw Settings menu. The key to being productive when applying subsets is to apply them to all the images that need them simultaneous^, which boils down to selecting Chapter 4: The File Browser 133 images that all need the same (orverysimilar)treatment. For example, Imay look for all the images that need a +0.25-stopexposure boost, then for the ones that need a half-stop, and so on. The image thumbnails and previews update to reflect the new settings, so checking the preview at a reasonably large size gives me a good idea of their effect. Opening images. Once youve applied settings to an image or images, you can open them and bypass the Camera Raw dialogboxby Shift-double- clicking. (Ifyoure opening multipleimages, Shift-double-clickon the last one; otherwise youll just change the selection.) Add Option if you also want to close the File Browser. Camera Raw then processes the images using their assigned settings and opens the converted imagesin Photoshop.However, ifIm dealingwith more than a handful of images, I almost invariably run a batch process instead, by choosing Batch from the File BmwsersAutomate menu+ee Figure 4-22. Figure 4-22 Sat& dialog baa This batch process conwrts the select&images using each images individual semngs. It then calls an action thatsharpens, adds an adjust- ment Lryer,and saws the layeredfileas a TlEE addingafour-digit serial number to the original document name.134 Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS Using Batch. The Batch feature lets you process images with CameraRaw and, optionally, rename and save them to a different location, whie also applying an action. Includiig an action in the batch allows for tremendous flexibility in automating different tasks. For example, I use one action to batch the creation of 1,024-pixelJPEGsand another to save 16-bitlchannel TIFFSwith adjustment layers included ready for editing,using Zip compres- sion to save storage space. Aaions like these save me hours of repetitive grunt work, which is after all what computers are supposed to do. There are, however, a few stumbling blocks that can trip you up when you first try to implement this kind of automation. b If you want the batch process to save the images in a specific format, you need to record the saving steps as part of the action youll call for the batch. b If you want to bypass the Camera Raw interface when you run the batch, you must check Suppress Fie Open Options Dialogs in the Batch dialog box (see Figure 4-22). Its probably a good idea to check Suppress Color Profile Wa ...