RAW photographyUnderstanding RAW Part 1 – YouTubeWatch enhancing intro DVD tutorial

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Camera RAW layout

1 – BASIC – EXPOSURE, TEMPERATURE, FILL, CONTRAST, SATURATION AND WHITE BALANCE CONTROLS

2 – TONE CURVE – SIMILAR TO “LEVELS”

3 – SHARPENING – VERY PRECISE SHARPENING, NOISE REDUCTION CONTROLS 4 – HSL / GRAYSCALE – INDIV. COLOR CONTROLS

5 – SPLIT TONING – HUE / SATURATION CONTROL

6 – LENS CORRECTION – VIGNETTE CORRECTION, LENS SPECIFIC SETTINGS

7 – CAMERA CALLIBRATION AND PRESETS – NOT NEEDED

Working in Camera Raw5.0 (Adobe)The advantage and challenge of working in RAW is that the camera is not Automatically doing preset image corrections for you. You need to correct / adjust image settings manually.

1 – Lens Correction-Adjust sliders to correct / apply dodging or burning of the corners to counter the vignetting created by creating a square photography with a round lens.

2 – BASIC- Work on White Balance and Exposure correction and possible fill light adjustment

3 – TONE CURVE- Use the curves graph to correct the value of the histogram

4 – SHARPENING -Control the amount of Sharpening and noise control in the image

5 – HSL / GRAYSCALE AND SPLIT TONING- Adjust color, saturation and luminance for every color hue

6 – Use the adjustment Brush to adjust exposure, bright / contrast / saturation, sharpness, etc… with a brush tool7 – Before pressing “Open Image”, be sure to adjust the image resolution so that the RAW resolution won’t be compressed. (Try 300ppi or greater!)