James Fee
10-01-2004, 07:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.photofocus.com/article.php?aid=185' target='_blank'>http://www.photofocus.com/article.php?aid=185</a><br /><br /></div>"<i>If you own one of the dozen or so different brands and makes of digital camera that shoot RAW files, at some point in time you will need to convert those files into photos you can edit and print in Photoshop. While there are lots of different ways to do this, people who use the newest version of Photoshop CS (which stands for Creative Suite – also called Photoshop 8 ) have a free raw converter built right in to Photoshop. It’s called the Adobe Camera Raw (ACR)Plug-in. So now that you have this cool new tool, how does it work? I’m glad you asked. Adobe’s RAW File Converter takes an uncompressed AND unprocessed image and imports it into Photoshop. Most people will tell you that it works with an uncompressed file. That’s the part that most people understand. But it’s the other half of that sentence that is really important. RAW lets you work with an “unprocessed” photo. In other words, you are getting pure camera data at a high bit depth. Photoshop can boil this information down into a photo.</i>"<br /><br /><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/araw.jpg" /><br /><br />If you have been wanting to learn more about how the Adobe RAW converter works and how to better use the settings, Scott Bourne's article will show you how.