Camera Raw with Photoshop for dummies

324 Pages·2006·33.233 MB·English

by  Kevin L Moss

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Camera Raw
with Photoshop®
FOR
DUMmIES
‰
by Kevin L.Moss
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Camera Raw
with Photoshop®
FOR
DUMmIES
‰
by Kevin L.Moss
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Camera Raw with Photoshop®For Dummies®
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About the Author
Kevin Mossis a photographer, author, and expert in digital photography, per-
sonal computing, and the World Wide Web. An early adopter and long-time
user of Photoshop, Kevin has specialized in combining traditional photography
with the latest in computer and digital technologies. Kevin is also the author
of Photoshop CS2 and Digital Photography For Dummies,and 50 Fast Digital
Camera Techniques,2nd Edition.
Kevin specializes in fine-art landscape, abstract, and portrait photography.
For more information about Kevin’s photographic work, or to contact him
regarding this book, visit his Web site at www.kevinmossphotography.com.
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Dedication
For my wonderful wife, Amy, who has supported me all along in my new endeav-
ors, and our children Amanda, Emily, and David. You have all supported me
through this project, and helped me make it happen. Thanks for taking such
good care of me while I spent all those days and evenings writing, taking naps,
taking photos, and messing around with Photoshop. I love you all!
Author’s Acknowledgments
Putting a book together is a large effort, and the author isn’t the only one who
spends a lot of time and dedication moving it toward completion. I have many
people to thank for their hard work and dedication to this project. I especially
want to thank Laura Lewin from Studio B and Bob Woerner at Wiley for giving
me this opportunity. You are both a pleasure to work with, and I especially
appreciate your professionalism.
I would like to personally acknowledge my Project Editor Nicole Sholly, who
gave me tremendous support on a daily basis to help me through all the intri-
cacies of writing a technical manuscript, plus helping me keep on schedule
and always being available at any time when I needed some help.
I would like to acknowledge the copyediting work of Barry Childs-Helton.
Barry’s eloquent suggestions for tweaks to my otherwise-plain language have
helped me take my writing to a new level. Barry worked extremely hard making
sure words weren’t a tangled mess, explanations were understandable, and
humor was on--target. I think Barry worked as hard on this book as I did, and
I am very grateful for the effort.
Any technical book, especially one written about complex software
likePhotoshop, needs a great technical editor. My special thanks to Ron
Rockwell — whom I rely on to advise me about technical issues, offer great
alternatives, and help keep my techniques correct. It’s professionals like
Nicole, Barry, and Ron that make the editing process fun and productive.
I would also like to acknowledge the rest of the team at Wiley who get things
done behind the scenes, including Kevin Kirschner and Amanda Foxworth.
Thank you all for your efforts to make sure my writing, images, and figures
are all formatted, arranged correctly, and understandable.
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Table of Contents
Introduction..................................................................1
About This Book...............................................................................................1
Foolish Assumptions.......................................................................................2
How This Book Is Organized...........................................................................3
Part I: Getting Your Feet Wet.................................................................4
Part II: Image-Management Workflow with Adobe Bridge.................4
Part III: Working with Raw Images........................................................4
Part IV: Photoshop CS2 Image-Processing Workflows.......................4
Part V: The Part of Tens.........................................................................5
Icons Used in This Book..................................................................................5
Where to Go from Here....................................................................................5
Part I: Getting Your Feet Wet.........................................7
Chapter 1: Getting to Know Bridge, Camera Raw, and Photoshop . . . .9
Shooting in the Raw.......................................................................................10
Why raw?...............................................................................................10
Not all raw files are the same..............................................................11
Transferring Image Files To Your Computer...............................................12
Working with Images in Bridge.....................................................................14
Starting Bridge......................................................................................14
Browsing folders and opening images...............................................15
Using Camera Raw.........................................................................................17
Becoming familiar with Camera Raw.................................................19
Adjusting images in Camera Raw.......................................................19
Hello Photoshop CS2!....................................................................................22
What’s new?..........................................................................................22
Getting around Photoshop CS2..........................................................25
Making adjustments.............................................................................26
Chapter 2: Enlightened by Raw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31
What’s Raw?....................................................................................................32
Raw versus Other Formats...........................................................................34
Advantages and Disadvantages to Raw.......................................................36
Taking advantage of raw format.........................................................37
A few potential drawbacks..................................................................39
Introducing the Digital Negative (DNG)......................................................40