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Using Camera RAW in Photoshop CS
as Your Digital Darkroom, page 3

Using the Camera Raw Interface, continued

Opening images directly from the camera
in Windows XP

Depending upon your camera, you may be able to open photos directly from your camera without downloading them first. To do this choose File>Open. Use the Look In drop-down list to find “My Computer” and select it. Your camera should be included in the list of drives and folders. Double-click on the camera icon to see the images currently saved in the camera.

The Camera Raw dialog box has a lot of options to select from, but you don’t need to reset them every time you open a raw image. The dialog box has what is called “sticky settings,” meaning that it saves the settings that were last used and opens with those settings selected. Also, after tweaking settings for your camera, you can save the settings and apply them to other raw images.

The rest of this section walks you through the many features and settings available in the Camera Raw dialog box. You can use as many or as few of these settings as you need to get the results you want. If there’s a specific setting you need, just skip to the topic below that covers it.

Looking at the features

Before you do anything, take a look around the dialog box. Notice that the camera type, file name, and camera settings such as F-stop, exposure time, and lens diameter are listed in the Title Bar of the dialog box (Figure 2).

Title Bar

Figure 2: The Title Bar lists camera information as well as the image’s file name.

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