Processing an Image Using Camera Raw

With our image-editing workflow in mind, we’re ready to start. To get the most out of these editing examples, open a raw image of your own and follow along with the descriptions of each control. Getting a feel for the controls is an important part of learning which parameters are good for which types of adjustment.

Before getting to work adjusting the color and contrast of your image, though, we’ll start with our geometric adjustments.

Geometric adjustments

As outlined earlier, your image-editing workflow should begin with any geometric adjustments that you need to make. These are any edits that might result in a cropping of your image. The idea is simply that you want to know the final crop of your image ...

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