If you know what part of the Histogram you want to adjust, but you’re not sure which slider affects that part of the Histogram, you can click and drag directly within the Histogram itself - right on the area of the Histogram you want to affect, and drag it left or right. Just head over to the Color Mixer panel click on the Luminance tab up top, and then drag the Red and Orange sliders to the right to brighten your subject’s skin.
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(3) Easy way to brighten your subject’s skin
All you have to do is turn this feature on: At the bottom of the Adjustment Brush panel you’ll see a checkbox for ‘Reset sliders automatically.” That’s the one, and now when your sliders are all over the place (like you see below center), and you come back to the Adjustment Brush, they’ll all be reset to zero (like you see below right). If you use the Adjustment Brush and you move a lot of sliders (which we tend to do) you can have Camera Raw automatically reset all those sliders when you’re done, so the next time you come you back here, all the sliders are set back to zero. (2) Automatically Resetting the Adjustment Brush Sliders You choose it by right-clicking on your image and from the pop-up menu that appears, under ‘Background Options’ choose Draw Image Frame (as shown here) to add that black stroke, or uncheck to see your image from now on without it. This is one of those features that Adobe kind of snuck into Camera Raw while nobody was looking, but you can choose to have a thin black stroke around your image, or not. You also get access to tools which aren’t available in Photoshop such as Clarity, and the Graduated Filter, Adjustment Brush and Radial Filter.It’s a great day for some ACR tips - let’s go! (1) Putting a Black Frame around your image preview This lets you limit the areas of the image which are sharpened to just the edges in the image and not areas of flat color. One is that you can use the filter to sharpen an image and take advantage of the Masking slider when sharpening in ACR. The Camera Raw filter offers some real benefits to Photoshop users. The benefits of using the Camera Raw filter This reopens the layer in ACR so you can make changes to the settings. You can also alter the Camera Raw Filter settings at any time by double clicking on the Camera Raw Filter entry in the layers palette. This feature is useful for adjusting the effect of a Gradient Filter where there are objects which fall inside the area affected by the filter that you don’t want to be affected by it.
Paint with black on the mask to remove them and with white to reapply them. Notice that the Smart Object layer in Photoshop has its own layer mask so you can, if desired, use the layer mask to adjust the effects that you just applied to the image. Once you have made your changes click Ok to apply the changes to the image and return to Photoshop. The ACR filters are also available so you can use the Gradient Filter and the new Radial Filter to adjust the image. Other useful adjustments you can make include adjusting Highlights, Shadows, Whites and Blacks and Clarity – settings which are easy to access in ACR and less easy (or not available in the case of Clarity) in Photoshop. This is a fix that isn’t as easy to make in Photoshop itself. So you can, for example, adjust the white balance by clicking on the White Balance tool and click on something in the image which should be neutral gray. Now you can make your adjustments to the image using any of the tools in ACR. To apply the Adobe Camera Raw filter choose Filter > Camera Raw Filter. If you have multiple layers that you want to apply the filter to, then select those layers in the Layers palette before converting them all to the one Smart Object. Using Smart Objects ensures that the adjustments that you are about to make can be edited later on. To do this either right click the layer and choose Convert to Smart Object or choose Filter > Convert for Smart Filters.Įither way the result is the same and you will have a layer converted to a Smart Object. So that you can revisit and edit the changes made by the filter, start by converting the layer that you want the filter to act on into a smart object. To see how the Camera Raw filter works open any image in Photoshop CC.