Lesson 2 - Objectives 9-12 (Wednesday)
B02-09 Skill: A basic Camera Raw workflow for beginniing students.
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Objective:
As was mentioned earlier, Camera Raw features an intuitive and easy workflow. Start your adjustments with the Basics panel. Next, finesse the adjustments with the Tone Curve panel. Then, move to the next panel, the Detail Panel, where you can reduce noise and sharpen the image. Then on to the next panel - the HSL panel where you can adjust hue, saturation, and luminance for each color range. We'll cover the other panels later on. Watch the video, My Basic Camera Raw CC Workflow for Beginning Students, to see an example of this. (Captioned Version) |
Video: My Basic Camera Raw CC Workflow for Beginning Students (3:49)
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Apply: Exercise B02-09
Download B02-09_Exercise and try it for yourself! This is a RAW image file in .DNG format (Digital Negative). After you've adjusted the image, save the file as a jpg image as shown in the video above, and name it B02-09_Your_Name. |
B02-10 Skill: Reduce image noise in Camera Raw
Objective:
Camera Raw excels at removing noise from your digital images. There are two kinds of noise that camera sensors introduce: Color and luminance noise. Although Photoshop has noise removal filters, I have found that Camera Raw does an even better job at noise removal. Go through the tutorial, "Photoshop: Noise Reduction in Adobe Camera Raw" to see how this is done. (Captioned Version)
- Learn how to reduce luminance and color noise in images using Camera Raw. Then apply what you've learned to fix a noisy photo.
Camera Raw excels at removing noise from your digital images. There are two kinds of noise that camera sensors introduce: Color and luminance noise. Although Photoshop has noise removal filters, I have found that Camera Raw does an even better job at noise removal. Go through the tutorial, "Photoshop: Noise Reduction in Adobe Camera Raw" to see how this is done. (Captioned Version)
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Apply: Exercise B02-10
Download this image, B02-10-12.jpg, and try reducing color and luminance noise, while sharpening the details, and getting rid of color noise. When finished, save your finished exercise file as B02-10_Your_Name.psd. |
Tutorial: Photoshop: Noise Reduction in Adobe Camera Raw
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B02-11 Skill: Sharpen images in Camera Raw
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Objective:
Camera Raw has an excellent panel - the Detail panel - that allows you to sharpen an image or remove noise from an image (or both!) It doesn't really bring an image into better focus, but it tricks the eye into thinking an image is in crisp focus by highlighting one side of every edge with light, and the other side with dark. Watch the video "Sharpening an Image in Camera Raw CC" (Captioned Version) to learn how this is done. Please try it out yourself on an image, but you won't need to submit it with the lesson 2 assignment. |
Video: Sharpening an Image in Camera Raw CC (2:45)
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B02-12 Skill: Remove or reduce color fringing in Camera Raw
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Objective:
Color fringing is a lens aberration that adds green or purple edges to objects in an image. This video, Camera Raw - How to Remove Color Fringing (Captioned Version), will demonstrate how to remove those in Camera Raw. Watch how it's done! Practice on either of the two images below. Remember, you'll need to zoom in close to see it better. This doesn't need to be submitted in the lesson 2 assignment. |
Video: Camera Raw - How to Remove Color Fringing. (1:52)
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