Adobe Photoshop CS4 Studio Techniques

The Camera Raw 5.0 Dialog

Let’s start with a brief overview of the layout of the Camera Raw 5.0 dialog (Figure 4.1), and then we’ll dive deeper and look at each specific setting.

Figure 4.1. The Camera Raw 5.0 dialog opens when you load a raw image in Photoshop.

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Across the top of the dialog are a set of tools and rotation icons:

• Zoom and Hand tools. The Zoom and Hand tools navigate around the image, like elsewhere in Photoshop, but I find the following keyboard shortcuts to be more efficient: Hold down Command/Ctrl and press the plus (+) or minus (−) key to zoom in or out on the image, and hold down the spacebar to make ...