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01/20/2008 01:32:37 AM · #1 |
I want to edit a photo and keep within Basic editing rules while editing in Camera RAW...
How can I go about doing this? If I edit the photo in Camera RAW to the point I am ready to take it into Photoshop do I hit "done" or Save as a JPG and then pick the file up in Photoshop? I am afraid of altering the original RAW...
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01/20/2008 01:40:52 AM · #2 |
You can't alter the original RAW file. ACR won't do it. ACR only changes some metadata held in a sidecar file. AFAIK no program will.
I would suggest clicking Open.
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01/20/2008 01:41:32 AM · #3 |
| I dont think it changes the original RAW image but lets hope someone who is 100% sure of this answers. |
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01/20/2008 01:41:41 AM · #4 |
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01/20/2008 07:43:21 AM · #5 |
Camera RAW, as others have pointed out, won't alter your original at all; Photoshop can't write RAW files, and by default when yous ave the RAW file it gives you a PSD file, which is what you should be working on until you resize and save for web, at which point you generate a small JPG. But DO be aware that there is at least one function of Camera RAW that is not legal in basic editing: you can't use the vignette function to lighten/darken the corners of your image for effect.
I think, but am not sure, you can use vignette as a "correction tool" (which is what it's designed for anyway) to compensate for cases where your lens naturally vignettes and you want to get rid of that. I don't have any lenses that vignette, so I have never had to do this. But in advanced editing I use vignette all the time to slightly darken the corners of my images and keep the eye contained within the frame.
R.
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01/20/2008 11:51:50 AM · #6 |
| thanks robert, I thought I remembered seeing an image dq'd for vignetting, so even though I wanted to use it I will steer clear of it for basic. |
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