Photoshop Camera Raw Part 2
What are the basic adjustment settings?
Exposure : There are two different ways that we can modify exposure. You can either click and drag on the slider, as you can see here, we can use the controls in this area to brighten or darken the image in really dramatic ways; or you can also use the histogram above.
Contrast: When you drag this to the right it increases the whites and deepens the blacks, adding more contrast. When we drag this to the left it reduces or removes contrast.
Highlights: When we drag the highlights slider, you will work on the highlight, or the brightest areas. It’s darkening those as we drag to the left, bring it to the right, it’s brightening that area.
Whites: It’s darkening the entire area. , we’re gonna see something similar, except it’s limited a little bit more to the range of tones that it’s allowing us to modify. It’s darkening overall as drag to the left, and bring it to the right, it’s brightening the entire white tonal area.
Shadows. Drag to the right, we can brighten up shadows, drag to the left and we can darken those.
Blacks: We are working with the deepest tones. We can add more density to the image, or we can brighten up those deeper tones here as well.
White balance: correct the temperature change:
6500 K on a camera Flash – Cool
5500 K Studio Lights – Cool
3200 K Tungstem – Warm
1800 K Candle Lights – warm
Clarity: with increase in clarity you will increase contrast of colors. Decrease clarity will soften the color contrast and less details. You will use less likely clarity on people and possibley more on athletes or something you want to increase that contrast.
Vibrance: slider to the left you will desaturate the weaker color.
Saturation: slider to the left you will desaturate overall the image, or slide the right and we remove overall all color.
How to reduce digital noise?
Go to details panel by clicking on the tab, it’s the third tab over. Zoom in at a 100 percent. then adjust.
Sharpness:
Amount – Sharpening amount
Detail – If you have an architecture image, or if you’re photographing old peeling paint, and you want all the texture to be there, well then crank up the detail value.
HSL panel
Saturation: To remove color from different areas, we can drag these values down. To bring one of the Saturation values up, we can do so by clicking and dragging on any of these sliders up.
Luminance has to do with brightness. To darken the color drag these to the left. To brighten up one area drag to the right.
Hue give us ability to shift the hue of the image.