

The best way to open images into Camera Raw is by using Adobe Bridge, so that's what I'll be using here. Then, we'll learn how to open JPEG and TIFF images.

We'll start with raw files since they're the easiest to open. For now, let's learn how to open our images directly into Camera Raw. We're going to cover Camera Raw is great detail in its own series of tutorials. We can make any changes we like, any time we like, and we can even restore the original, unedited version at any time. And, Camera Raw is completely non-destructive, meaning that nothing we do to an image is permanent. This makes editing images in Camera Raw much more natural and intuitive. Unlike Photoshop which is used by people in virtually every creative profession, Camera Raw was built with photographers in mind, using a simple layout that matches a normal photo editing workflow from start to finish. But Camera Raw has grown to include support for JPEG and TIFF images as well. That is, images that were captured using your camera's raw image file format. These days, especially if you're a photographer, you're less likely to open your images into Photoshop itself (at least initially) and more likely to open them into Photoshop's image editing plugin, Camera Raw.Ĭamera Raw was originally designed to let us process raw files. Yet even though Photoshop is still the world's most powerful and popular image editor, times have changed. And we learned how to open images into Photoshop using Adobe Bridge. We learned how to open images from within Photoshop itself. CR adjustments listed in metadata are only a receipe, the original image data stays intact in CR.So far in this series on getting our images into Photoshop, we've learned how to set Photoshop as our default image editor. That's because those adjustments are applied to the image data irreversibly when the new file is created. If you in Photoshop save your file with File > Save As, a totally new file is generated and it naturally hasn't CR adjustment list. Exit by Cancel does not cause metadata update. The metadata is updated when you exit CR. You can see its "last modified" -timestamp changes. You do not need to save the image in CR, the adjustments are inserted to its metadata automatically if the file isn't write protected.

If you have selected Camera Raw preference "Open JPGs with settings", Photoshop check the metadata and opens in CR those JPGs which have already got something in CR. If you have made adjustments in Camera Raw to a JPG, the adjustments are listed in metadata. JPGs have also non-image data which reveal used equipment, applied software, used settings and many other technical things.
