![]() In other words, use the Color noise reduction option to reduce high frequency color noise, and use the Color Smoothness option to reduce low frequency color noise.ĭuplicate an Adjustment Brush pin. When a local adjustment is already maxed out, a popular workaround is to add another adjustment pin and paint over the same area again. Notice how the large areas of color noise become much less visible. In the example below, the left image is set for a Color Smoothness value of 0, and the right image is set to a value of 70. Now you can leave the Color setting the same and increase Color Smoothness instead. In the past, the only way to address the splotchiness was to turn up the Color noise reduction value even more, but that could reduce color detail that you wanted to preserve. ![]() Some features are new to both Camera Raw 8.2 and Lightroom 5.2.Ĭolor noise reduction smoothing. Applying color noise reduction can reduce the effect of fine color noise, but larger splotchy areas could still exist. New features for both Camera Raw and Lightroom When you convert raw to Photoshop you usually want to preserve maximum image quality for further Photoshop editing, but when you save a finished file from Camera Raw you usually want to downsample it, compress it, apply output sharpening to it, and convert it to sRGB color, especially if it’s for a web site or for final presentation on a display. (A Save preset applies when you save to a finished image file directly from Camera Raw, while a Workflow preset applies when you convert an image from Camera Raw into a new Photoshop document.) This distinction is important because the requirements of saving vs Photoshop conversion are very different. ![]() This makes it possible to use Save options that are different than the Workflow options. To make this practical, Adobe added the Color Space, Image Sizing, and Output Sharpening options to the Save Options dialog box. Save options presets. You can also create presets for the settings in the Save Options dialog box. To set up workflow option presets, click the blue linked workflow text at the bottom of the Camera Raw window, customize the options in the Workflow Options dialog box that opens, and at the top of the dialog box use the commands in the Preset menu to create or update workflow presets. To choose a workflow preset in the main Camera Raw window, right-click the blue linked workflow text at the bottom of the window. Now Camera Raw has a similar capability in the form of workflow presets. Lightroom users have had it much easier, because if you saved a Lightroom export preset you could reproduce the settings of a previous export instantly and exactly. If you wanted to output more images using the settings from an export before the most recent one, you would have to enter those settings all over again. Up until now it has been a bit of a hassle to use Camera Raw for direct output to different media because it could remember only the last settings you used. Note that this icon does not necessarily mean a CMYK profile is selected, because it will appear if the printer profile you’ve selected is RGB-based. This is consistent with the new soft-proofing capability. In the example below, the second zone from the left is dragged and the readout shows that zone affects the Shadows value.īy the way, if you’re new to Camera Raw 8, notice that when you select a printer profile in Workflow Options the usual highlight and shadow clipping icons at the top left and top right corners of the histogram are replaced by a single Gamut Warning icon in the top right corner (the one that looks like a printer). When you drag in the histogram, the corresponding slider moves and a readout below the histogram tells you what’s being changed. For example, dragging the far left side of the histogram (the darkest tones) adjusts the Blacks slider. You can drag ranges of the Camera Raw histogram left or right, and each range corresponds to a slider in the Basic panel. The features below add to those in the June release of Camera Raw 8.1 and were already part of Lightroom, such as soft-proofing and making the crop aspect ratio independent of output dimensions. This time it looks like Adobe wanted to sync up the feature sets more tightly. ACR catches up to LightroomĪdobe keeps ACR and LR in sync for format compatibility, but Lightroom has historically had more efficiency and workflow features than Camera Raw. (Version 5.2 of Lightroom was released at the same time.) Both have been available as public release candidates (test versions), but these are now the final versions. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom has traditionally had a few more productivity features than Adobe Camera Raw, but the improvements in the September 2013 release of Adobe Camera Raw 8.2 bring Camera Raw closer to parity with Lightroom.
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