Locked lesson.
About this lesson
Raw filters essentially treat your image like a negative rather than a finished product. Raw filter in Photoshop offer an extended range of color adjustments to even regular non-raw images and has the added advantage of editing the photo in only one window (and no stacked Adjustment Layers).
Exercise files
There are no related exercise files for this lesson, or we cannot provide them due to copyright issues.
Quick reference
Topic The Raw Filters
Use the great extended range of RAW filters on regular JPGS.
When to use
Raw filters essentially treat your image like a negative rather than a finished product. Raw filter in Photoshop offer an extended range of color adjustments to even regular non-raw images and has the added advantage of editing the photo in only one window (and no stacked Adjustment Layers).
Instructions
Preparing your image
- Open up the image in Photoshop (CC and above);
- Convert it to a smart object;
- Menu/filter/camera Raw filter.
Use raw filters options
- General temperature (color tone)
- Exposure
- Contrast
- Highlights
- Shadows
- Clarity
In the Detail Tab you have options like
- Luminance noise reduction
- And sharpening
- The hues tab for specific color isolating and adjustments
- The spot-healing tab
- And the adjustment brush for detail specific work
Finish up
- Press OK to accept the filter settings.
Note: Because it’s a smart object you can go back into the filter and re-adjust any time you need to.
Login to download- 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.
Lesson notes are only available for subscribers.