Bring excitement and pumped up color to your subject’s eyes by adding a Vibrance adjustment layer from the Adjustments panel (Window>Adjustments). Move the Saturation slider all the way to the left until it reads 100…
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Bypass Camera Raw and go straight to Photoshop
If you’re in Bridge and you want to open a RAW photo without going through the Camera Raw dialog, just press-and-hold the Shift key and double-click on the image. It’ll bypass the Camera Raw dialog,…
Press-and-Hold Alt to Reset
If you ever want to get back to the original settings that your photo had when you opened it in the Camera Raw dialog, just press-and-hold the Option (PC: Alt) key. You’ll see the Cancel…
Tinting a photo
Want a cool tint formula for a black and white? First, when you’re in Camera Raw, go to the HSL/Grayscale tab and turn on the Convert to Grayscale checkbox. Then, go to the next panel…
Straightening Based on a Vertical surface
Camera Raw has a Straighten tool to straighten your photos. What a lot of people don’t know is that if you don’t have a perfectly horizontal surface, such as a horizon line, to straighten your…
Opening a JPEG in Raw
Starting with Camera Raw 4.1, you can now open and process JPEG photos in the Adobe Camera Raw dialog. If you’re in Bridge, select a JPEG photo that you want to edit. Then go to…
Sharpening with Alt/Option key
Camera Raw 4.1 introduced some killer new sharpening sliders that let you get a lot more sharpening work done before you ever even get into Photoshop. One cool trick when using the sliders is to…
Before and After in Camera Raw
As you work on a photo in Camera Raw, you’re undoubtedly going to want to see what it looks like in comparison to the original. Well, Camera Raw doesn’t really have a side-by-side preview, but…




