Chapter 3

How to Use Camera Raw Like a Boss

Part One

Many photographers are surprised to pick up a book on Photoshop and see so much emphasis on Camera Raw, but to be honest with you, this is where most of our basic editing work is done today. Later in the book, we do cover a little bit of Levels and Curves, but for the way today’s photographers process their images (whether they shoot in RAW format or not), using Levels and Curves is really kind of old-fashioned. Really “old school.” Now, you’re probably familiar with the phrase, “Ain’t no school like the old school!” but that phrase is actually referring to something much different than Photoshop. Just in case, I went online to Urban Dictionary to see how they described the phrase “old school,” ...

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