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Opening and developing a raw photograph

Opening and developing a raw photograph - Photoshop Tutorial

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Opening and developing a raw photograph

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- [Instructor] Now, anytime you open a raw photograph, whether it's a DNG file or otherwise, it's going to open inside Camera Raw. We're going to see what that looks like in this movie. So here I am inside Photoshop, and I'm just going to go up to the File menu and choose the Open command, and I'll navigate to the 12_camera_raw subfolder inside the Exercise Files folder, where I'll find, among other images, this file right here, called Alicia in hat.dng. And if I click the Open button, notice that the image doesn't open inside Photoshop, nor am I even asked how I want to open the file, it just automatically opens inside Camera Raw and that's because Photoshop doesn't know what to do with this image until it's developed. Now obviously this image is overexposed, which is why I'm going to start things off by decreasing the exposure value. By way of a little tip here, notice if you move your cursor over the central portion of the histogram, you're going to see the word exposure up there…

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