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Step Three:
Of course, you could choose the
2012 (current) process version from that
pop-up menu and your image will be up-
dated to the current processing power,
and all the new, improved sliders will
appear in the Basic panel. But, I'd only
do that if I were charging by the hour,
because there's a much quicker way to
do it. When you open an image edited
in a previous version of Camera Raw, you'll
see a warning icon in the bottom-right
corner of the Preview area (actually, it's an
exclamation point, shown circled here in
red). To instantly update to the latest ver-
sion, just click directly on that exclamation
point and it's updated.
TIP: Getting Fill Light
& Recovery Back
If you ever decide that you just can't
live without the old Fill Light and/or
Recovery sliders, just go to the Camera
Calibration panel and from the Process
pop-up menu up top, choose
2010
, and
they instantly reappear (but you'll be
using the old processing technology
now, as well).
Step Four:
Now your image is updated to the
latest processing technology, and
it's been my experience that just by
converting to the new process ver-
sion, my photos look instantly better
(well, in the vast majority of cases—in
some cases, they look the same, but I've
never had one I thought looked worse).
However, if you didn't apply any Basic
panel adjustments to your image pre-
viously, there's nothing for it really to
update, so you're not going to notice a
change when you update. In this image,
once I updated to the 2012 process
version, I was able to increase the Clarity
more (without creating halos), and I
bumped up the Exposure a bit, too.
