Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS- P8

Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS- P8: If youre reading this book because you want to be told that digital really isbetter than film, look elsewhere. Those discussions tend to generate a lotmore heat thanlight, andifyouarent at least contemplatingshootingdigitalfor some or all of your work, this book isnt relevant.
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Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS- P8192 Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS Embed Private Metadata With the fields Ive created myself-the Category (PublishedIn Print, Pub- lished Online, Unpublished)-I can embed the metadata in the image, but it isnt searchable. Its viewable in the File Info Advanced panel under Adobe Photoshop Properties, but its only editable in my custom File Info panel or by using a text editor on the sidecar .xmp file. However, I never send out my raw images, and any image derived from the raw has my metadata embedded directly in the file, where its safe from geeks with text editors, rather than in a sidecar file. A s u e d programmer could remove the metadata, but theyd have to know to look for it in the first place, so its fairly bulletproof. Figure 6-14 shows a custom Fie Info panel developed by my good friend Seth Resnick. Its quite a bit more complicated than the first example, and no, Im not going to show you the code that created it-Seth put in too much work for me to just give it away, and he built this panel without the benefit of the documentation to which youve been referred. I simply offer it as a useful illustration of just how much you can accomplish with XMI? There are two significant points to note about this panel. The first is that by default, without any user intervention, a rights notice is embed- ded in every raw image thats opened in the File Browser-notice that the Rights Management popup doesnt include none as an option. The second significant point is that the entries from the Rights Management popup are embedded in any files derived from the raw image, in a form thats uneditable to anyone who isnt either a programmer or a possessor of the custom File Info panel-the File Info panel is the secret decoder ring for this private metadata and offers the only reasonable means of removing or changing it.Making Images Smarter Metadata has been around in one form or another for a long time, but in many ways its still in its infancy. Having a standard in the form of XMP is one factor that will doubtless accelerate its evolution, and the ready avail- ability of basic shooting parameters from the EXIF data is another.knowingthat their copyrightand rights management noticesare embeddedright in the image. In the future, you can reasonablyexpect to see softwarethat makes more intelligent use of metadata-automatically applying theright lens corrections based on focal length, or the right noise reductionbased on IS0 speed, for example. You can also look forward to seamlessintegration withXMP-compliant asset managers and databases. Youll doubtless encounter speed bumps along the way, but if you un-derstand how image metadata works, youll be in a much better positionto troubleshoot any problems you encounter than those who just treatthe whole thing as incomprehensible magic. I hope this chapter providesa starting point for further metadata explorations.T his page left blank Working Smarter, Not HarderThe goal of doing all the work Ive discussed so far in this book is to setup your raw images with the correct Camera Raw settings and the rightmetadata so that you can produce deliverable processed images with theminimum amount of effort. The minimum amount of effort, in this case,means taking full advantage of Photoshops rich automation features, sothat you can simply press a bunon, walk away, and let the computer doyour work for you. One of the great things about a computer is that once youve made it dosomething,you can make it do that same something over and over again,exactly the same way, automatically.Tapping the power of automation iskey to building an efficient workflow, so in this chapter Il show you how lto leverage the work youve done in the Fie Bmwser and Camera Raw toproduce deliverable images in a variety of formats. The Fie ~ r o G eserves as command cenaal for all the operations Ill rdiscuss in this chapter. They all boil down to a two-step process.b You select the images that you want to process in the Fie Browser.b You run one ...