Adobe® Photoshop® CS2 Studio Techniques

The Camera Raw Dialog Box

Let's start with a brief overview of the layout of the Camera Raw dialog box (Figure 9.1), and then we'll dive deeper and look at each specific setting.

Figure 9.1. The Camera Raw dialog box. (©2005 Ben Willmore)

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Photoshop's RAW format isn't the same as Camera Raw format. The names sound almost identical, but Camera Raw files can only originate from a digital camera, and Photoshop cannot change the file at all. Camera Raw files are locked because they are designed to contain only the information ...