Overview
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Learn the tools and best practices for measuring and correcting color in Adobe Camera Raw.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know before watching this course
- Using the exercise files
- Choosing workflow tools: Bridge, Camera Raw, Photoshop, and Lightroom
- Opening images in Camera Raw via Bridge and Photoshop
- Working between Camera Raw and Photoshop
- Working between Camera Raw and Lightroom
- Understanding Camera Raw's non-destructive tools
- RGB versus CMYK color adjustments
- Evaluating overall tone and color
- Evaluating overall brightness and contrast
- Identifying color casts by the numbers
- Finding and evaluating neutral areas
- Evaluating skin tones
- Challenge: Evaluating color cast as well as brightness and contrast
- Solution
- Correcting highlight and shadow areas
- Fine-tuning brightness and contrast
- Warming and cooling
- Making white balance adjustments
- Adjusting color using tone curves
- Adjusting skin tones
- Shooting and correcting product photography
- Quick and easy target-based color adjustments
- Target-based adjustments by the numbers
- Adjusting poor exposure
- Working with difficult images
- Adjusting tricky images
- Applying creative adjustments
- Adjusting multiple images
- Challenge: Identifying and correcting a color cast
- Solution
- Next steps
