Welcome to my "Art of Photography Blog. Today I am posting a new tutorial entitiled: "Basic Raw Image File Processing In Adobe Camera Raw" This tutorial is for anyone who is new to Photoshop and Camera Raw, the Photoshop raw image file processing tool that is included with most of the more recent versions of Photoshop. If you are new to digital photography, you may not know the reason it is common knowledge among photographers that shooting raw image files from your digital camera will produce an image with more potential uses now and in the future. While it may be tempting to shoot jpeg or tiff files because you can skip the initial processing that a raw file requires, (which really only usually takes about 1 or 2 minutes max), you will be rewarded with a file that is much richer in pixel data - and this ultimately translates into an image that has a much broader potential for commercial and high-end printmaking.

Please keep in mind if you are using the tutorial that this is just a basic workflow for processing a raw image file, and there are a multitude of additional adjustments and refinements that can be made while in Camera Raw. I suggest that you try experimenting with some of these too, so you will gain your own knowledge about what this powerful image processing tool can do for you. The steps I am showing here are the steps I use consistently on a daily basis to prepare my raw files for further processing and final output in Photoshop.

That's it! Your raw image is now ready to be saved (usually as a .psd or .tiff )

I will be posting more tutorials soon that will cover further processing of the

image in Photoshop. While the image may look quite good already, you may be

pleasantly surprised how much better it can look with some additional targeted

"tweaking".

Thanks for viewing my tutorial. I hope it was useful to you.

Keep shooting!

Best Regards,

Chuck Underwood