Using Camera RAW in Photoshop CS
as Your Digital Darkroom, page 2

What's Camera RAW All About?, continued

This barticle dives into the world of photography as it explores the truly sensational Camera Raw capabilities built into Photoshop CS. Introduced as a plug-in with Photoshop 7, the newly integrated Photoshop CS Camera Raw format lets you open and professionally “process” your digital negatives. This processing lets you set the tone, color, and brightness of your photos without losing important image data. Also, you get better resolution.

Digital photography has come a long way in the past few years. Digital cameras have become more common and cameras with high-end features are becoming quite affordable. Many of these cameras can be set to save photos in either JPEG or Camera Raw format. Camera manufactures that make cameras that produce Raw photos include Canon, Fujifilm, Kodak, Leaf, Nikon, Olympus and Sony. To find out if your camera can use Photoshop’s Camera Raw features, go to Adobe's Digital Camera Raw web page for a complete list of the cameras supported by Photoshop CS’s camera raw interface.

Using the Camera RAW Interface

When you’re ready to open a Camera Raw image, you can open it by double-clicking on the image in the File Browser or by choosing File>Open and using the Open dialog box. The Camera Raw file format extension is .crw.

Which ever way you decide to open the image, the image automatically opens in the Camera Raw dialog box as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1: The Camera Raw dialog box is used to process digital negatives.

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