Camera Raw Filter

Quick reference

• 00:04 Hey everybody, Howard Pinsky here, taking a look at one of Photoshop CC's newest
• 00:09 features, and one of my favorite features that came in Photoshop CC, the ability to
• 00:14 add camera as a filter, which would allow you to open your JPEGs or your layers in
• 00:19 Camera Raw, and use all the Camera Raw adjustments that you are familiar with.
• 00:25 Now of course in bridge you can open up a JPEG in Camera Raw, but
• 00:29 now having it within Photoshop itself is something that I absolutely love.
• 00:35 So let me show you how this works.
• 00:36 So this image here is a standard JPEG, it's not a raw file.
• 00:40 So when I do open up Camera Raw, I'm not gonna be editing the raw data, but
• 00:43 I will be able to use all the same adjustments that I've used before.
• 00:47 Before you apply your filters,
• 00:48 you always want to convert your layers into a Smart Object that will allow you to
• 00:52 go back and make changes to that layer later on if you need to.
• 00:56 So over in the Layers panel, I can right click on the layer and
• 00:59 then convert to Smart Object and
• 01:01 I have my Smart Object thumbnail at the bottom right hand corner of that layer.
• 01:05 And now if I go to my filter menu, I now have access to the new Camera Raw filter.
• 01:11 And when it opens up, you can start editing just like you would to a raw file.
• 01:14 And again, you're not editing raw data because it doesn't exist within a JPEG.
• 01:19 But now you don't have to apply five, six, seven adjustment layers to
• 01:22 get the result that you're looking for, you can do everything within Camera Raw.
• 01:27 So for this in specific, the temperature's off a little bit.
• 01:30 It's a little bit too cool for my liking.
• 01:32 So I can simply go over here to the right and
• 01:34 increase the temperature, so that it's a little bit warmer.
• 01:37 The exposure looks pretty nice, but
• 01:38 I do want to increase the contrast a little bit just like that.
• 01:41 The highlights are going to decrease to get rid of some of those blown out areas,
• 01:45 and then I'm going to increase the shadows a little bit to brighten up some of
• 01:48 the darker areas.
• 01:49 And then down below, one of my favorite adjustments is clarity to sharpen up
• 01:53 those mid-tones and of course I'm gonna boost the vibrance a little bit to
• 01:56 really pop the sky and the grass, just like that.
• 02:00 So with a few simple adjustments, we have our before, and we have our after.
• 02:04 To achieve this effect without the Camera Raw filter,
• 02:07 I would've probably had to add one, two three, maybe four adjustment layers to
• 02:11 this document in order to get a nice looking image.
• 02:14 But it doesn't just stop there.
• 02:16 Just like when you're editing a raw image, you can hop into the detail tab and
• 02:19 if you introduced a little bit of noise when you increased the shadows or
• 02:22 the exposure, you have luminance noise reduction right at the bottom.
• 02:26 So I can increase this just a little bit to deal with some of the noise that I
• 02:29 introduced when I did increase the shadows.
• 02:32 And if you want to keep a little bit of detail in the photo, you can go ahead and
• 02:35 increase the Luminance Detail slider.
• 02:37 And now I can jump into the Hue Saturation Luminance tab and
• 02:40 adjust my colors on a more specific level.
• 02:43 So if I want to tweak the color of her vest a little bit,
• 02:46 I can simply increase or decrease the reds, make it a little bit more purple.
• 02:50 I can hop into saturation to bring down the saturation of
• 02:52 the reds a little bit just like that.
• 02:55 And finally, just like when editing your raw photos,
• 02:58 you have the tools available to you at the top.
• 03:00 You have the spot removal tool and you also have the adjustment brush.
• 03:04 So if I zoom in over here to this area back here,
• 03:07 there's a little bit of a clump or a rock that I want to get rid of.
• 03:10 So I can grab my Spot Removal tool and
• 03:12 then brush over top of this rock in the foreground, just like this.
• 03:16 And Photoshop's gonna estimate where the sampling should take place.
• 03:18 But of course if you don't like it like I don't right here,
• 03:21 I can just grab this, move it over here and it will have a much better heel.
• 03:25 Now to finish off the edit,
• 03:26 I'm gonna brighten up the girl's face just a little bit.
• 03:29 She has a little bit of shadows on the left side of her face.
• 03:31 So I'm gonna grab the Adjustment Brush, I'm going to zoom in just a little bit,
• 03:35 and with my left square bracket key, I can decrease the size of my brush and
• 03:38 then over on the right, I have all of my adjustments.
• 03:41 So for this example, I'm gonna increase the shadows and then I'm going to
• 03:44 simply brush over the top of her face to deal with those shadows on the left side.
• 03:49 And now her face is looking a little bit brighter and if I need to,
• 03:52 I can adjust these even after I've done my brushing, so I can increase the contrast.
• 03:56 And if I did introduce a little bit of noise, I have noise reduction as well.
• 04:01 And all of these edits have been applied to a JPEG using the new Camera Raw filter.
• 04:06 And because I made sure to convert that layer into a smart object,
• 04:10 at any point in the future I want to tweak the adjustments that I made originally,
• 04:13 I can simply double click on the Camera Raw filter right underneath my layer and
• 04:17 up comes Camera Raw with all of the adjustments that I made previously.
• 04:21 And that's the new Camera Raw filter within Photoshop CC.

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