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Using Camera RAW in Photoshop CS
as Your Digital Darkroom, page 4

Looking at the features, continued

Do yourself a favor and rename your
digital photos

Have you noticed how inscrutible digital photo file names are? Take CRW267_0359.CRW for instance. One would never know that this is a picture of seashells.

Everytime you take a camera load of pictures and download them, do yourself the favor of renaming them while you still know what they are. Put them in a folder with the day’s date or a quick descriptive word, whatever. You’ll thank yourself two weeks later when you’re looking for that great surf photo you took.

The image itself is viewed in a large Preview Pane. The Preview Pane is dynamic, so every time you make a setting change the preview updates to let you see what you have done.

Also, notice that there are three tools at the upper left as shown in Figure 2: The Zoom, Hand, and Eyedropper tools. As you may have guessed the Zoom tool is for magnifying the image and the Hand tool is for moving the image around in the Preview Pane. The Eyedropper tool (actually called the White Balance tool in this dialog box) is for setting the options that compensate for various lighting conditions. I’ll discuss its use later in "Setting adjustment options."

The lower left area of the dialog box contains four drop-down lists that are used to set color space, resolution, and size. These drop-down lists will be discussed in "Setting resolution and color space."

Below the OK and Cancel buttons at the upper right area of the dialog box are two radio buttons, one labeled “Basic” and the other “Advanced.” When Basic is selected, only the Adjust and Detail tabs are shown in the Settings area. If you select Advanced, you’ll have access to two more tabbed panels of settings, Lens and Calibrate.

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