WWF Raw: The Essentials of Camera Raw - The Adobe Photoshop CC - page 2

after a movie title, song title, or TV show, and while “ WWF Raw ” may not be the ideal
name for a chapter on Camera Raw essentials, it's certainly better than my second choice,
“Raw Meat” (named after the 1972 movie starring Donald Pleasence. The sequel, Steak
Tartare , was released straight to DVD in 1976, nearly 20 years before DVDs were even
invented, which is quite remarkable for a movie whose French version wound up being
called Boeuf Gâté Dans la Toilette , with French actor Jean-Pierre Pommes Frites playing
the lead role of Marcel, the dog-faced boy). Anyway, finding movies, TV shows, and song
titles with the word “raw” in them isn't as easy as it looks, and since this topic has not one,
not two, not three, but...well, yes, actually it has three chapters on Camera Raw, I'm going
to have to do some serious research to come up with something that tops “ WWF Raw ,” but
isn't “Raw Meat,” and doesn't use the same name I used back in the CS4 edition of this
topic, which was “Raw Deal” (from the 1986 movie starring California Governor Arnold
from Happy Days . See, that was a vague reference to the guy who played the diner own-
er in the '70s sitcom Happy Days , starring Harrison Ford and Marlon Brando). But what I
really can't wait for is to see how the people who do the foreign translations of my topics
translate this intro. C'est magnifique, amigos!
Working with Camera Raw
Although Adobe Camera Raw was originally created to process photos taken in your cam-
era's RAW format, you can also use it to process your JPEG and TIFF photos. A big ad-
vantage of using Camera Raw that many people don't realize is that it's just plain easier
and faster to make your images look good using Camera Raw than with any other meth-
od. Camera Raw's controls are simple, they're instantaneous, and they're totally undoable,
which makes it hard to beat. But first, you've got to open your images in Camera Raw for
processing.
Opening RAW Images:
Since Camera Raw was designed to open RAW images, if you double-click on a RAW im-
age (whether in Bridge or just in a folder on your computer), it will launch Photoshop and
open that RAW image in Camera Raw (its full official name is Adobe Camera Raw, but
here in the topic,I'll just be calling it “Camera Raw” forshort, because...well...that'swhat I
call it). Note: If you double-click on what you know is a RAW image and it doesn't open in
Camera Raw, make sure you have the latest version of Camera Raw—images from newly
released cameras need the latest versions of Camera Raw to recognize their RAW files.