How To Open Jpeg In Camera Raw
https://www.shutterbuggs.com/ - Camera Raw’s interface and controls make it extremely easy to use in comparison to trying to achieve similar results using Adobe’s Photoshop. But, what if you don’t have a camera that shoots in Raw? Can you still take advantage of Camera Raw’s nondestructive editing?
Well, the answer to that question is yes. Even if your camera only shoots in JPEG or TIFF, you can still open and edit these files in Camera Raw and take advantage of most of the associated benefits.
Now, let me walk you through a couple of different ways of opening your JPEG and TIFF files in Camera Raw. As you can see, I have a folder open here, and it only contains JPEGs. Let’s now go and double click on one of these JPEGs. As you can see, it’s opened up in Adobe Photoshop which is not what we want.
Let’s go and close that. That’s generally what happens. What you can do instead of opening it directly from your folder there, if we were to open it in Photoshop you could actually go to open and open up the same folder. You’ll see they’re all JPEGs there.
I’m going to open this file here. But, instead of leaving the format set to JPEG, change that and set it to Camera Raw. We’re sort of tricking Photoshop into automatically opening up your JPEG file in Camera Raw as opposed to ordinarily opening it up in Photoshop.
We set that to Camera Raw, and then we go click open. As you can see, it’s now opened up in Camera Raw. That’s how you get around opening up JPEGs or TIFFs in Camera Raw using Photoshop.
Once you start making changes to your JPEG files you’ll notice that it starts to write those corrections to your JPEG’s metadata. So, it’s nondestructive.
It’s not actually physically changing the file, unless you want it to. In that case you’d need to go and save it as a new file or open it as a copy of your original JPEG in order to physically change the original file information. But, in this particular example any correction that I make to this file, it’s only getting stored in the metadata which is really neat –
especially if you ever want to jump back or come back directly into Camera Raw itself and make further corrections to your JPEG or TIFF files.
With that said, I mean you can do the majority of all the different adjustments that are available to you in Camera Raw to your JPEGs. I mean within reason. Because, obviously, your JPEG files aren’t Raw files. So, they don’t contain as much information as a Raw file does.
But, you do have available to you all of the actual panel options and all of the tools. So, you can primarily make the majority of adjustments that are available to you to your JPEG and TIFF files. So, you’re really not limited.
To make simple corrections you can go through and just work your way through the panel making slight corrections here and there. It doesn’t take you that long until you’ve got a result that you’re reasonably happy with. In comparison to Photoshop you have to set up different layers, use different filters and different adjustments like levels, curves, color balance, selective color, a whole range of things like that in order to try and reproduce similar color corrections that you can do in Camera Raw within a couple of seconds to a couple of minutes.
There’s a big difference in the ease of use using Camera Raw as opposed to actually trying to recreate the same results in Photoshop. That’s one of the main advantages of wanting to use Camera Raw to edit your JPEG and TIFF files.
The other main advantage is to use the batch correction feature of Camera Raw. You can open up multiple JPEG files and correct them all at once, and apply similar corrections if you wanted to, and even synchronize those corrections across a range of photographs – which saves you a lot of time instead of trying to do that in Photoshop.
I mean it’s very similar to using Adobe’s Lightroom, for example. That’s what you can do using Camera Raw with regards to opening up your JPEG and TIFF files.
Another way to go about this, if you don’t want to actually open up Photoshop, for example, you can use just Adobe Bridge. Because Camera Raw plug-in itself is actually built into Bridge. So, you don’t need to open up Photoshop in order to open up Camera Raw.
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