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[CS6]
Hello. My name is Russell Preston Brown, from Adobe Systems,
and this is a quick overview of a great new feature
found in Adobe Photoshop CS6,
and it's Adobe Camera Raw 7.0.
It's a great new upgrade to the Adobe Camera Raw feature set.
Casting our eye over here to my screen--
you can see that I've got a fairly dark image.
And I want to go through what has just happened, what has just changed.
The world has changed.
Now, the beauty of Adobe Camera Raw is that we can update
the way in which we interpret the raw data.
Now you have your Legacy capabilities.
You can maintain your Legacy controls
over images you may have processed in the past.
And we don't force you to upgrade--
but this new upgrade is really, really nice for some of your current images--
or even some of your older images.
Here's my original--now here's the way I can correct this image,
using the 2010 version of Adobe Camera Raw.
This is the best I can achieve
to pull out the Shadows and Highlights within the image.
But check this out:
here then, is the way I can interpret this same information
here in Adobe Camera Raw 2012.
I'll do that again--
before--2010,
and 2012.
Look how I can go in and bring out
much more control of the highlight information
And just to refresh your memory,
I started with that--
to get all the way to this--really amazing.
Here's another example:
here's a shot inside of a church--
darker regions, some Highlights up above.
Here's 2010.
Using my Fill Light feature, I can do some pretty amazing things.
But I was stunned to see what I can do in the
2012 version of Adobe Camera Raw 7.0.
Watch the shadows, in this case, as I click to the next image.
It's really beautiful--almost an HDR-like quality
in that I'm bringing out detail over here
in the arches, here in the shadows,
and I'm maintaining the highlight detail up here, above--really great.
Okay. Let's take a look at the details to this.
I'm going to go back here to my original image.
This happens to be a Smart Object,
which, of course--in this case, a Smart Object of a Camera Raw image.
You can double-click on that and open it up here,
inside of Adobe Camera Raw.
Over here, under the Camera Calibration item right here,
you'll see that I''m currently in the processing
of a 2012 processing of this image.
As I said earlier, you have the Legacy versions
of the way in which we process this data.
And if you have an image that you really, really like
and you processed it in one of these earlier versions,
I'd say leave it there and maybe try processing it in a new copy--
because you may want to use that or make a print of it,
and have it exist exactly as you remember it.
2012 is my choice here.
If I go over here to my basic settings--
right here--you can see the changes.
You now separate highlights and shadows.
In the past, we had something called Fill Light--but I really love this.
Notice how I can take the highlights
down or up.
Notice how it's isolating the sky from the shadow in the foreground.
Bring the highlights down, bring my shadows up.
It's just really, really nice--
the ability to split those 2 and separate them.
Let's bring up our Clarity a bit--
because that's also going to bring up my overall Lightness,
and then, down here, a little bit of Vibrance
just because it needed a little bit more color--just like that.
Now, basically, what I like to do is
start by maybe increasing the exposure.
Now I must admit, this particular image
was extremely underexposed
and I find the best images that work well with the light and dark
is a medium exposure--and not too bright, not too dark--
that you start with, as your beginning point,
to create a really nice dramatic, full range of shades.
Clarity, Vibrance, Highlights down--
once again, we can bring those right down and separate them.
And the beauty of this is, as I'm working with Clarity and the Brightness--
excuse me, the Highlights and the Shadows--
I don't see a lot of haloing, which I might normally expect to see.
So we've controlled the amount of halo that appears within your image.
A little bit more exposure--like this--
and--you know, just as another tip and technique--
when I'm working with images like this,
I like to go over to the HSL/Grayscale,
and I like to target the Luminance of particular colors in an image.
For example, the Red values found in the pagoda here--
I can go in and highlight those--
or even the Orange values.
Let's take a look at some of the Green values in the foliage in the background
or even the Blue values--we can make the sky darker or lighter.
So don't forget to go into your Luminance values,
in combination with your basic settings,
to really give your image a nice punch.
In combination with these great new features here
for adjusting the separation of Highlights and Shadows,
I also like the new capability, here,
of going in and adjusting the image with the Adjustment Brush.
We've added some new features here.
You can now go in and brush in the Sharpness and Noise Reduction
into the image, which is really fantastic,
as your working on an image and that's a great new feature.
So there you have my favorite capability.
It's definitely going in and bringing in that Highlight and Shadow
and if I just switch back to the past for a moment and show you this--
if we switch back over here, from the 2012 to the 2010--
take a look at the way the image changes.
Well that's pretty dramatic, but you see
that we just have the Fill Light.
We only have Fill Light, which is really like our Shadow Control.
But notice, in the past, we started with zero on the left and 100 on the right.
And in the future--in 2012 here--
all of our settings start here, at the zero point in the middle
and you can have negative values and positive values, which I really love.
It gives me the full range of control.
Let's click OK.
So there you have it--some great new additions
to Adobe Camera Raw found here,
inside of Adobe Photoshop CS 6.
Give them a try.
[Adobe]
