- [Instructor] I'm often asked when
and what types of edits should be made
in Camera Raw or Lightroom or Lightroom Classic,
and when should edits be made in Photoshop?
Well, when working with photographs,
especially raw files captured on a digital camera
or mobile device, it's best to make
as many corrections and adjustments to those photographs
using the technology found in Camera Raw
before opening them up into Photoshop.
As far as what types of edits should be made,
the Camera Raw technology excels at adjusting
and enhancing color and tone and contrast and images,
and it can be implied to the entire photograph
or to just a selective area within the photograph.
Let's take a look at three examples.
So the first image has been straightened,
it's also been cropped,
and some lens distortion has been removed.
In addition, the tonal and color values have been adjusted
and there have been some local adjustments,
some lightening and darkening
of just specific areas in the icebergs.
In the second image,
you can see that there's been some contrast added
by brightening the highlights
as well as darkening down the shadows
using more of the dynamic range of the entire image.
And the colors and contrast has also been adjusted
to create a little bit of separation using the blue
in the foreground and the yellow in the background.
And in the third example, we can see that there have been
certain areas that have been changed,
like the blue color range in the sky,
so it's been darkened and also desaturated,
and there's also been some local corrections.
The iceberg in the foreground has been saturated
and also made a little bit darker.
So fortunately, the Camera Raw technology is found
not only in Camera Raw, but also in Lightroom Classic,
Lightroom, and even Lightroom on mobile and web.
It just looks a bit different depending on the application.
For example, when you open a raw file from Bridge
or from the operating system into Photoshop,
the Camera Raw dialogue box is displayed,
and that's where you would find
all the Camera Raw processing technology.
When you're using Lightroom Classic,
the raw processing technology is found
in the Develop Module,
and when you're using Lightroom,
then you'll find the technology in the Edit Stack.
Now, there are three primary reasons
that you should make edits to your raw files
using the Camera Raw technology,
and the first is speed.
So the changes that you make are done
using a parametric imaging model,
and that just means that the application
quickly applies a set of instructions to alter
how the image is displayed on screen.
And this type of editing can be significantly faster
when compared to a pixel editing application
such as Photoshop.
The second reason would be
that the Camera Raw technology is streamlined
for making edits to photographs.
So it provides very powerful,
yet really easy to use tools for adjusting color
and tone and contrast and images, both globally,
meaning to the entire image,
or locally, so just to a selective area.
And most adjustments can be made
by simply selecting a preset
or choosing a profile or by moving some sliders.
And they can be refined and re-edited as often as needed.
The third reason would be quality.
So the Camera Raw technology never changes the original data
in the file, and this means that regardless
of how many times you make edits and refine them,
you'll always be working
with the highest quality file possible.
It's really only when you move to Photoshop
that those enhancements that you make are applied
to the original and a new document is created.
However, there are lots of things that Camera Raw cannot do,
and that's when the power of Photoshop really shines.
So let's take a look at a few examples.
So the first would be advanced retouching.
So if you need to remove distracting elements
and combine multiple images and remove objects
or backgrounds, then you really want to go to Photoshop.
Likewise for complex compositing,
so if you have a really tricky selection
or you need to make an intricate mask
and you want to composite multiple images together,
then definitely, Photoshop is the tool that you want to use.
You can also add filters and special effects,
like you can add motion, like what was done
in the foreground of the image on the right here,
and you can also do things like quickly replace skies.
Finally, if you're going to add some design elements,
for example, some text or maybe some shapes to your images
or maybe you want to paint and draw on them
or mock up screen designs, anything like that,
again, Photoshop is going to be the tool of choice.
So we're going to take some time to walk through
the Camera Raw technology and the workflow
later in this course,
but first, let's jump in and get acquainted with Photoshop.