Adobe Camera RAW Adjustment Video Tutorial – Camera Calibration and Presets
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Camera Calibration
This adjustment dialog’s primary use is to calibrate various cameras you own so the colors come into Adobe Camera Raw consistently.
This dialog gives you the ability to adjust Shadow tint (same tint slider as on the Basic Adjustment Tab but affects only the shadow portion of the photo) and shift the hue and saturation of the three primary colors.
To adjust for a particular camera, you want to work on a photo that has no adjustments made to it, and has not been adjusted before. The premise is to go each of the three primary colors, adjusting them to taste—it’s suggested that you work with the color first, before you adjust saturation.
Once you’re satisfied with the adjustments, you can save them by left clicking on the icon circled in red and click "Save New Camera Raw Defaults" These settings will now be applied by camera serial number which is contained in the EXIF information for each individual shot. Note that EXIF info can be stripped from JPEGs given certain editing software used, and if you pull a JPEG with that serial number in which has been previously worked on another computer or pulled in from a different source file than the original (in other words, ACR will not have a sidecar file associated with the file) it will apply the camera settings again, so you would have to reset those settings manually by zeroing the values out on this tab.
While I don’t use this function as of yet, as I only have one camera that shoots outright color photos (I have a D70 converted for IR), Adobe claims that these settings will be applied each time to each photo (JPEG or RAW) with the given serial number contained in the EXIF data.
Adobe Camera RAW Presets
Though most don’t use this powerful tab, careful thought and use can save you a lot of time used judiciously.
Let’s go through a scenario:
You have a photo you’ve fully worked and know that this is the type of photo you will often work with like settings. Once all the adjustments you feel the photo needs have been made, you can do one of two things; left click the dropdown menu icon to the right of the word "Presets" at the top right of this image, or click the "New" Icon, which just in the rest of Photoshop and across the Adobe Suite is represented by what sort of looks like a sheet of paper and is always located in the lower right of any pallet you use, and is always one left of the rightmost "Delete" icon, which is an icon of a trash can.
If you just the upper menu dropdown, you will need to select "New Preset" from the menu, conversely, by clicking the "New" icon in the lower right, you will be presented with a presets dialog box which gives you the opportunity to choose to include or not include any of the individual settings available. Whether you’ve adjusted a particular setting or not, it is checked by default. The three settings that are not checked by unless you’ve converted the photo to grayscale.
You can save as many different presets as you want on this screen, but practically speaking, it would be hard to keep up with too many presets (for me at least), but given the obvious workflow enhancements possible with the saving of presets, I suggest you play around with it as much as you feel necessary until this methodology is actually doing what’s intended, which is saving you time. Note that presets can be overwritten, so you don’t have to name a new one and delete an old one. That offers real benefit as you begin using a preset, if you find yourself making the same adjustments over and over again with a given preset, the logical thing to do would be to overwrite it with the settings you keep on making.
The dialog box to the right is what you see when you save a preset.
Each checkbox represents a different adjustment available in Adobe Camera RAW. You can uncheck boxes as you feel necessary, however, if you only make the adjustments you want to use as a preset adjustment, you don’t need to worry about unchecking anything.
The thing you need to understand though is by applying a preset, you overwrite any changes you’ve made to a particular photo thus far, so it’s a good idea to apply presets first before you make any adjustments other than crop, red eye or healing. Those should not be overwritten, because they cannot be saved as a part of a preset.
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