[...]... understand just what a raw capture is 2 Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS What I s a Digital Raw File? Fundamentally, a digital raw file is a record of the raw sensor data from the camera, accompanied by some camera- generated mefadata (literally,data about data) I'U discuss metadata in great detail in Chapter 6, Metadata, but for now, all you need to know is that the camera metadata supplies... time Chapter 1, Digital Camera Raw, looks at the fundamental nature of raw images-what they are, and the advantages and pitfalls of shootingthem Chapter 2, How Camera RawWorks, looks at the specific advantages that Camera Raw offers over other raw converters In Chapter 3, Using Camera Raw, I look in depth at Camera Raw' s controls and how to use them to get the best out of your raw captures But working... combination of Photoshop' s File Browser and CameraRawplug-in offers a fast, efficient, and extremely powerful workflow for dealing with raw digital captures, but the available information tends to be short on answers to questions such as the following b What special considerationsshould I take into account when shooting digital raw rather than film or JPEG? xiv Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop. .. result, X3F files-Foveon X3 rawsdon't require demosaicing But they do needall the other operations a raw converter carries out-white balance, colorimetric interpretation,gamma correction, and detail control-so Camera Raw is as applicable to files from Foveon X3-equipped cameras as it is to those from the more common striped array cameras 6 Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS Exposure and Linear... various metadata schemes used by Camera Raw and the File Browser and shows you how to make them work for you Finally, Chapter 7, ExploitingAutomation, show you how to leverage the work done in Camera Raw and the File Browser to produce converted images that require minimal workin Photoshop and contain the metadata you want them to xviii Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop C S A Word to Windows... Digital raw files present a further bottleneck, since they require processing before you can even see a color image This book tells you how to deal with raw images quickly and efficiently, so that you can exploit the very real advantages of raw capture over JPEG, yet still have time to have a life The key is in unlocking the full power of three vital features in Adobe the Photoshop CS- Adobe Camera Raw. .. though, you have, by definition, captured everything the camera can deliver, so you have considerably more freedom in shaping the overall tone and contrast for the image You also produce a file that can withstand a great deal more editing in Photoshop than can an 8-bit per channel JPEG Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS Edits in Photoshop are "destructive"-when you use a tool such as Levels,... virtually all the cameras supported by the Camera Raw plug-in are of the type known as "mosaic sensor" or "color filter array" cameras ("virtually all" because versions 2.2 and later of Camera Raw also support the Sigma cameras based on Foveon's X3 technology-see "The Foveon X3 Difference," later in this chapter) The first key point is that striped-array raw files are grayscale! Color filter array cameras use... are most sensitive togreen light 4 Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS Other color filter array configurations are possible some cameras use a cyan, magenta, yellow arrangement instead of the GRGB configuration in the classic Bayer pattern, while still others may use four colors in an attempt to improve color fidelity But unless you plan on designingyourown cameras, you needn't wony about the... is the opportunities offered by metadata.Your camera already embeds a great deal of xvi Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS potentially useful information in the image-the date and time of shooting, the IS0 speed, the exposure and aperture settings, the focal length, and so on-but the File Browser makes it easy to enrich your images still further with keywords and other useful metadata and . shooting digital raw rather than film or JPEG? xiv Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS c What edits should I make in Camera Raw? c How and where are my Camera Raw settings. Detail and Noise 11 viii Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS Raw Limitations 11 Processing Time 11 FieSue 12 Longevity 12 Adobe Camera Raw 13 Universal Converter. Find us on the World Wide Web at www.peachpit.com. Peachpit Press is a division of Pearson Education. Realworld CameraRaw withAdobePhotoshop CSis published in association with Adobe Press.