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Introducing Camera Raw

Introducing Camera Raw - Photoshop Tutorial

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Introducing Camera Raw

- As I've mentioned a few times now Photoshop includes a plugin called Camera Raw. One day it should probably just be fully integrated into Photoshop. Don't ask me how. It should just be part of the program. But for now Photoshop and Camera Raw are separate and distinct. Imagine that the act of editing an image is somehow like being a passenger on an airplane. In which case Photoshop is the pilot and Camera Raw is, well, not exactly the copilot but a really great flight attendant. Camera Raw's primary purpose is to take a raw photograph and develop it. Now you may be thinking, what's a raw photograph? It's all the pixels that your digital camera captures without doing anything to them. Not processed or purified, just raw pixels. The idea is this. You can let your camera capture a plain old JPEG file, in which case your camera will do the image editing for you. The photograph will be cooked. It will be baked. And if…

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