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Figure 5.1 Holding the Alt/Option key in Camera Raw changes the buttons from Open and Cancel to Update and Reset.

Figure 5.2
The Apply Camera Raw Settings dialog (this is the Photoshop
Elements version) lets you select which settings to use for
updating your RAW files.

7. Choose First Selected Image and click Update.

All the images you have selected in File Browser will have the settings from the
first image applied to them. From here, you can either open individual images in Cam-
era Raw for fine tuning, or you can move to the batch conversion step that I cover later
in this chapter.
Other options in Apply Camera Raw Settings will update the files with the pre-
vious conversion, which is useful when RAW files live in multiple directories, and Cam-
era Default, which returns the settings in the selected images to the default settings.

Note: Don't confuse Camera Default with As Shot. Selecting Camera Default will apply the settings
saved as the defaults that you have when Camera Raw opens a RAW file for conversion. Whatever changes
you've made through the Set Camera Default command will be applied to each image. As Shot will apply
the settings used by the camera at the time of image capture.