MASTER the Camera Raw Filter In Photoshop 2020

[Music] hi guys today I'm going to show you how you can master the Camera Raw filter in Photoshop and I'm gonna start alright hi guys and welcome back to the channel my name is James and if it is the very first time to this channel and you want to learn all about Photoshop Lightroom and everything photography related start now by subscribing and hitting about so you don't miss anything so in this video guys we're going to be talking about the Camera Raw filter and this is my master class tutorial all about how to understand and master a Camera Raw filter so the Camera Raw filter is a cyber program built into Photoshop now the reason Camera Raw filter actually exists is because the Photoshop can't actually open RAW files so for instance if you took a photo on a Canon Nikon or Sigma or any kind of camera it will have a either a JPEG or a raw file that you can photograph now if you shoot JPEG it doesn't really matter what program you use any program can open JPEG but if you're shooting a raw file you will be able to use the Camera Raw filter to open up in Photoshop but what's special about the Camera Raw filter is you're allowed to utilize different sliders and tools before you open it up in Photoshop and that's what we're going to be discussing today so if you'd like to have a look at any of the pre-selected photos that I'm going to be using in this tutorial then go ahead to the link in the description but without further ado guys let's get started so the first thing I'm going to discuss is how you can actually access the Camera Raw filter so there's actually two ways of accessing the Camera Raw filter the first way is by shooting in RAW and using the Camera Raw filter when you opens up in Photoshop because again like I was saying that you actually need a subprogram in Photoshop to actually access the raw file information before you open it up cuz Fredrik are actually open law files and the second way is actually using it as a filter effect in your settings in Photoshop so today what I've done as you can see on my desktop I've got the one on the left hand side is a raw file I don't know what one on the right hand side is a jpg file now because I shoot Canon it's a cr2 file format but for instance if you show maybe Nick on Sony or any other camera brand other than Canon you're not going to be necessarily seeing the same file format you might be something slightly different but again they're all RAW files so as long as it's not JPEG or TIFF it will be probably a raw file on your computer so what I'm going to do is I'm just going to right click on the Camera Raw and I'm gonna go to open with and as you can see as set to my default is Photoshop 20/20 so if I go ahead and just click open as you can see it's opened up in Camera Raw and we can see that by the dialog box that is opened and the Camera Raw filter and as you can see I've got the 12.2 operating system so it's the most up-to-date at the moment so it's something to do bear in mind is you do want to keep your camera raw up to date as well as Photoshop if possible and then as you can see here you can see the camera that I shot which obviously I shoot a cannon 60 mark 2 now once we're in it as you can see it's broken up into three different sections so the ones at the top here at the left as you can see are basically a bunch of different tools on the right hand side here you can see firstly at the top you can see your histogram broken up obviously in highlights exposure and shadows and then obviously you've got all the sliders here but as well as the sliders you've also got these panels which allow you to change certain things and that's what I'm going to be predominantly discussing today and then as you can see at the bottom here we've got a few extra buttons these are prominently preview buttons to allow you to change between before after or kind of changing a bunch of other ways of displaying a photo on using the Camera Raw filter and then right at the bottom here you have got your color settings if you go ahead and click it will bring up with your workflow options and it allows you to change your color space so that is the RGB settings that you've chosen so for instance I shoot Adobe 1998 but for instance if you wanted to change it for uploading to Instagram you can always change it to srgb or prophoto RGB again that's something that you probably want to look into a little bit further and then again you've also got your bit depth so for instance you've got 8-bit and 16-bit and today I'm just going to discuss a little bit about bit depth in this tutorial but the moment I'm just going to keep it at 8 bit depth and then obviously you've got or resizing and everything like that but we're going to leave it to Photoshop to deal with all that what we're going to do today so I'm just going to color grade the photo and just add a few effects to show you what the Camera Raw filter can do so I'm going to go ahead and click OK so that is how you can use or open the Camera Raw filter shooting a raw file but what happens if you shot a JPEG file well what I'm gonna do is I'm just going to press cancel I'm going to do is I'm going to go ahead and open the JPEG file now so I'm gonna right click on that open with and I'm gonna open with Photoshop now I should receive because it's a JPEG file they just automatically opens up in Photoshop so how do you access the Camera Raw filter well what I'm going to do first I'm just going to press command J on our keyboard this would allow us to revert back to the original image just in case you make a mistake in the Camera Raw filter and then what I'm going to do is I'm going to go up to filter and then as you can see we've got the Camera Raw filter in our filter settings or Photoshop so we'll go ahead and click Camera Raw filter and then again the dialog box opens there's you see a few bits of information on Missy so we'll look at the top here as you can see it just says Camera Raw and then the file photo name which we've got as you can see all of that workflow information is missing and that is what the benefit of shooting raw is you have a lot more information and you can also change the bit-depth and also the workflow and color space all within the Camera Raw filter before you open it up in Photoshop now of course you can change all that information in Photoshop there's obviously no there's no much of a difference but what's great about the Camera Raw is you can change it before it opens in Photoshop so any effect that you want to apply you can always apply it before you open it which is and really handy and this is why I really like using the Camera Raw filter for this particular instance so there we go so there are the two ways of accessing the Camera Raw filter either using a raw file or a JPEG file now I'm going to move on to it's just a bunch of the kind of different techniques and filters that you can use in Photoshop so obviously I like shooting in RAW so I'm just going to use raw as an example but you can follow along with a JPEG file is all of the stuff that I'm going to be doing from now on you can either do using a raw file or using a JPEG file it makes absolutely no difference but today because I like shooting in RAW because you have more information in highlights and shadows you can kind of stretch the information a bit more in the photo that's why I like shooting shooting loss and that's what I'm gonna be using raw in this particular tutorial so I'm going to do is I'm just going to go right click on the raw file open with and then I'm just going to open with Photoshop so like I was saying previously it is split into three separate sections so at the top here you've got a bunch of tools on the right here again you've got predominately sliders and then you've got the information at the bottom but the two areas that I'm going to be focusing on in this particular tutorial is at the top here where you've got all of the tools and then predominantly all of the information on the right hand side the sliders is why you would use the Camera Raw filter so firstly let's talk a little bit about the sliders on the right so as you see the main or what you would call the basic panel which is the main panel that you can see here is broken up into three separate sections so at the top here you've got white balance now this changes the temperature of your photo but also can you can change the tint to get the whites in your photo as perfect as you would like next you've got exposure now again you've got an auto button just above here that allows Photoshop for instance the Camera Raw filter to automatically change it for you if you want to change it manually you can don't just have to change the exposure you also got contrast highlights shadows whites and blacks and instead of for instance Photoshop which you only have usually an exposure and contrast slider for instance if you use the exposure and contrast adjustment layer this allows you to change a lot more information and again because we shot in RAW there will be more information in the shadows so you could really bring up the shadows and then lastly we've got the last section here and this is predominantly sliders for effects so for instance you've got texture clarity D haze but you've also got two colour sliders so for instance you've got vibrance which is how kind of vibrant or pure the color is and then you've got saturation which is all to do with the intensity of the color so again you've got those sliders there as well so if we go ahead and we just want to increase the brightness of this photo we can do so just a little bit so as you can see it works in points so we've got a 0.5 of a stop brighter so for instance if I shot a hundred ISO but I want you to bright up by 0.5 I'll be 150 next what we do is we get interest increase the contrast ever so slightly like so but as you can see the highlights are quite bright so all you need to do is you've got the highlight section here we can just lower the amount of brightness in the highlights and that is without affecting the rest of the photo and again with the shadows what we can do is actually raise the information in the shadows lovely look at that now obviously we've got whites and blacks this is to do with the point of where the exposure of the white or how much of the white is in the photo so for instance if we raise that up as you can see that increases the amount of white in the photo and it's very similar to blacks so that's the main difference between highlights and shadows is highlights and shadows perfect a large fan of the highlights and a large pan of the shadows where blacks and whites affect the tip of the very end of the exposure so if we look at our histogram and we move the whites as you can see it's predominately affecting the very very right hand side of the histogram so you want to kind of treat the whites and blacks is a very last resort bringing back the information from the very evil highlights or the shadow now I often try and take the photo or the exposure correct at the point of shot so obviously when I took the photo so I don't often change the white or black points but again if you either under shot or overexposed your photo that is possible to change and then again obviously we've got our texture and clarity now texture is the amount of texture in the photo and what it does it just enhances it it's all we can do is we can just simply increase the texture a little bit and as you can see it's brought a little bit more of the pores of the information what it does is it leaves all the blurry or out-of-focus areas alone clarity is very similar to contrast but what it does is it increases the difference between it close to the edges of where that contrast lies so for instance if we whack it up all the way as you can see the difference between the highlights and the shadows within the eyes especially as you can see has have been increased so I often try and just very carefully increase this slider but but not too much because it cannot be a detriment to the photo and D haze that kind of says it what it is on the tin it just removes any of haze or fog enos from the photo and in this particular photo as you can see there isn't much of haze in it so I often leave that slide and then again you've got vibrance and saturation now this is something again I often change in Photoshop but you do have the ability of changing it in Camera Raw it's all we can do is go to art in the next section and this is tone curve and you've got to you've got point curve books I've got parametric and it is again very similar to the basic sliders you can see on our exposure but this allows you to change it using the histogram overlay if you've ever used the curves adjustment layer now again I often leave this alone and just focus it working on the basic panel but again you have got that opportunity if you are that type of photographer again this is all about your workflow this is my particular work fountain how I like using the Camera Raw but it once you start using the camera wall a little bit more you'll understand your own workflow and how you would like to work so today I'm just going to try and show you absolutely everything and then you can decide on what bits that you like the most and you can utilize that in your own workflow so after we've got tone curve we've got detail now this is a great slider and it's a lot better than the sharpening or any of the other effects you can get within Photoshop so what we can do is we resume in so we've got sharpen but instead of just sharpen we've got a mount radius detail and we've also got masking and then we've also got reduced noise as well so you can sharpen it and reduce noise in the same effect and again you've got obviously the luminance but you've also got color color detail and color smoothness so for instance if you shot a high ISO what it can do is it can remove all of those kind of red green and blue blotches you might get either in the shadows or highlights if you either under or over expose the photo now again I like to raise it just ever so slightly in my presets just to kind of sharpen up the areas that need it but again I always try and shoot as perfect as I can at point of shot so a lot of these effects are just minor tweaks so we can obviously increase the noise and I like increasing the smoothness of it just listen to remove as you can see in the background we've got this kind of RGB kind of effect going on and that's again probably quite a higher so so that's something again you can affect with noise reduction next we've got is probably one of the most powerful sliders in Photoshop Camera Raw filter this is what you would call the HSL adjustment hate yourself stands for hue saturation and luminance so you've got three different panels here's you've got hue you've got saturation and you've also got luminance now what's great about using the HSL slider instead of for instance using the hue and saturation adjustment layer is because you've got more colors to use so for instance in the hue and saturation adjustment layer you've got reds yellows greens scions blues and magentas but in this you got reds orange yellows greens aquas blues purples and magentas so as you can see you've got more colors to use and to slide around so you have more customizable way of changing the colors in the photo so for instance in this particular photo I'm probably going to want to change the blues to more of a cyan create a bit more of a split complementary color thing so I can do is go into the blue section here and we can move it over to the left and as you can see that has changed the colors from blue into more of a cyan teal color and again we can do the same with the aqueous so you see we can move these sliders around now again obviously equals skin tones a prominently found in the reds and yellows obviously we've got the advantage of using orange as well so we've got reds yellows and oranges to change to change the skin tones so we move the Reds you can do that a little bit we can also move the oranges now I'm guessing the oranges is predominately where the skin tones are found so we can do it like so add a little bit more of a yellowy tinge to it and then again we've got the yellows as well so we'll probably increase the yellow orange a little bit bring out a bit more of a balanced skin tone effect this will go for something maybe go for ten for the oranges lovely now after you've changed the here you could obviously change the saturation so for instance if you wanted a particular color gone or you want to increase the saturation of that color you can simply do that but again because you've got more customizable sliders and have more opportunities of changing the colors in the end run so again this is the advantage of using the camera roll over using certain adjustment layers in Photoshop and again obviously you've also got luminance which is the brightness of that photo so for instance in this particular effect I would probably want to increase the decrease the yellows and then I'll probably increase the Reds ever so slightly again this is just skin toning effects so I would go for something like a so lovely I'm loving this photo so far I'm really liking what we're doing so what we're going to do now is I'm just going to move over to the next slider now this is a great slider and I must say I would say is very underutilized as I see most photographers don't use its buy absolutely love split toning now split toning is a way of splitting the highlights and the shadows and adding a color or a hue to them independently from each other and then you've obviously got the balance in between highlights and shadows so this is a way very similar to for instance if you've ever color graded you can add a certain cube to the shadows and then you can do add a different hue to the highlights so if you've ever used a gradient map before this is very very similar but what's great about this is again it's just built into Camera Raw filter so you can change it or adapt it as much as you like so we're going to do is I'm just closing out as you see we've got a great selection so you've got highlights in the main kind of portrait model here but you've also got some shadows so I'm going to do is I'm going to add in a blue for the shadows but add more of a warmth time to the so as you can see what highlights here we've got hue and saturation slider so we're gonna do is will be a change the hue to let's go for do to do let's go for 45 which 45 is kind of an orange color then all you'll need to do to add that effect just simply increase the saturation and as you can see it has added a nice orange time to it so I'm going to go for a saturation of 20 now again if you'd like to add more blues or any other color for instance into the shadows we can do the same using the hue slider so you want to change choose the color so we'll choose a blue and then to add the blue increase the saturation so we'll increase the saturation like so now as you can see is adding it to the whole photo and it's not necessarily adding it just to the shadows so what we can do is use our balance slider here and just simply move it over to the left and as you can see that will increase the blue or increase the orange you can move that slider around to get the right balance in your photo lovely now this is a lens correction now in particular you shootin Camera Raw you have the lens information built into the photo but if you have a jpg file you won't have that information built in so again this is the using the difference between raw and JPEG there's loads of pros and cons but the pro of shooting raw is you have more information now with this obviously you've got profile so you can set the profile to the camera and lens that you've used and it will change or remove bowel distortion and chromatic aberration and if you do this both by enabling profile correction which is obviously shooting what camera you've used and what lens of use so as you can see automatically it already knows I've shot Canon my model was EF 50 mil 1.4 which is the lens that I used and obviously then it's got the profile which is the lens again and obviously you've got distortion and vignetting and what this will do is it will actually remove it for you but if you were using for instance the JPEG format and you don't have that information available you can always use a manual setting so again you can change the distortion here you can change the vignetting here and then you can also change the amount of fringing or for instance another word for that is chromatic aberration which is some blues or purples that appear on contrasting edges you mostly notice it for instance if you took a photo of a window sill you might know just kind of like a purple haze and this is just to do with light bouncing around in your lens creating these kind of fringing effects and you can remove this using the lens correction feature in the Camera Raw filter which is really handy and it's probably the only way of actually changing this as you'll find that this isn't actually possible using it in Photoshop so this particular effect is really really handy so once you've changed all of that and you've changed to instance the amount of distortion we can move on to the next now this is effects there are two effects in this particular tutorial there's grain and there's also post cropping vignetting now for instance grain is obviously kind of what it says on the tin you can add grain but obviously what's the difference between adding grain and Camera Raw versus Photoshop is you can change the size and roundness of the grain so for instance if I added in grain its add in let's say 50 who zoom in and as you can see we've added in grain here now Photoshop that's all you can do but what's great about this you can add change the size so for instance we make the grain quite large so for instance if you're after more of a vintage feel to your photo you can make quite large grain and you can also change the roundness of the grain which obviously is how round the grains spots are on the photo so for instance you can make them nice and sharp to reduce it down to zero and you could add the size all the way up to 100 and it adds this kind of weird kind of effect but again depending on what photo you're chosen and depending what type of grain you're after but I don't really like rain so I'm gonna do just take it all the way to the left and that'll just turn the grain feature off and then you've also got post crop vignetting which again obviously vignetting is the edge of the photo either it's white or black and again what we can do is if we slide it to the left as you can see it's adding in a dark vignette but if we add it to the right a lot of white vignette began what's special about the camera raw filter again you've got what's really kind of special about the camera is it got all of these sliders and I'm gonna probably saying this for every single feature that we're talking about every single effect has extra sliders to it you've got more customized ability in Photoshop so again we're gonna add a little bit of a post cropping vignette again you can change the vent all around this feather you can also even change the highlights so this is what I love about the Camera Raw filter is you've got so many different sliders to retweet your photo yet the exact effect that you're after [Music] and then they've all got is the very last kind of effect here and this is calibration and this is to do with again the white balance you can change the white balance using the tints hues and then you've also got greens and blue primaries and this again goes a lot more in-depth to kind of changing the exact white balance now obviously you've got the traditional white balance which is just simply temperature and tint but this obviously breaks it down into a lot further options so for instances it's kind of like a little bit like the hue and saturation adjustment layer where you're able to change the hues but we've got the sliders don't obviously have such large of a range of color so it allows you to adapt each color independently from each other so for instance obvious you've got blues greens reds and then obviously you've got the shadows with that and obviously you can change the version so obviously I've got the latest version but obviously you can predate it if you're for instance got an old photo and then the very last one here are presets so what you can do is after you've changed all of this what you can do is go down and click this little button here and what this will do is it will save it as a preset so if you ever used a Photoshop action before or if you've ever used a Lightroom preset for instance if you took lots of photos like for instance your a wedding and you want a very similar style to it but you don't want to go in and constantly keep changing all of the sliders a lot of work just talked about what you can do is create a preset do is right-click on that and as you can see we've got the name of the preset now again you've got all of the profiles that we've changed so this is everything that we've changed in the photo so you've got texture blacks white shadows highlight all of this make sure is all of them that you've changed or ticked name it so I'm just going to name this test 1.0 and then all you'll need to do is click OK as you can see in user preset you've got test 1.0 and you can have as many as you want you can also favorite them as well so if we click that as you see it pops up in your favorites so again if you ever want to add this particular effect in the camera roll again you can always use the effects filter preset and then the last one here is kind of just snapshots and this basically has all of the photos that you're editing at the same time that you can compare them using the kind of large thumbnail on the right-hand side so what we can do is once we've done all of that all you'll need to do is simply go ahead and just open image and what that will do is that will open all of those effects it will read the camera RAW format and it will open it up in Photoshop and that is how you can use the Camera Raw filter to change a bunch of different effects techniques and even color grading in Photoshop using the Camera Raw filter again all you'll need to do is if you do shooting JPEG or you'll need to do is press command J to duplicate that layer and then go up to filter and then you can access a camera raw filter using jpg and again all of what we've just talked about is possible in JPEG format as well [Music] brilliant and there we go guys so that is how you can understand and master the Camera Raw filter and I must say is one of my favorite ways of either color grading or just changing the exposure of a photo again guys if you want to like comment 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Length: 27min 51sec (1671 seconds)

Published: Sat May 16 2020