Camera RAW Filter in Photoshop

[Richard Crowe]

I almost always shoot in RAW because I like the control that RAW gives me over shooting in JPEG.

One of the things that I like best about shooting ij RAW is opening the images into Adobe Camera RAW (which is part of Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Bridge and Adobe Lightroom...

I didn't realize until recently (since I usually don't shoot in JPEG), that I have many of the same controls available when editing JPEG images by accessing the Camera RAW Filter under the Photoshop "Filters" drop down menu. However, I have done some shooting with my iPhone 6S+ which doesn't allow shooting in RAW and I have taken advantage of the Photoshop Camera RAW Filter.

There is a plethora of controls available within the Camera RAW Filter and I use many of these.  However, the two controls I like best are:

1.  The white balance Eye Dropper.  When placed on a white or neutral gray area of your image, the Eye Dropped will pretty well balance the color of light in your image.

2.  I love being able to rotate images and to correct distortion while seeing my corrections as I am making them.  Here is an example of correcting distortions on an iPhone image...

Original Image needing rotation and distortion correction...

Camera RAW filter

Final edit after Camera RAW and cropping

Here are some YouTube links regarding the Camera RAW Filter

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=camera+raw+filter+tuto...

[F, Calla & Luca]

I love Camera Raw and use it always when editing.

[Anne & Mr. Haley]

Like F, I always use Camera Raw for editing. Before I began shooting raw images I would use it for editing jpeg images. Then I began shooting raw and haven't looked back.

[Richard Crowe]

I started shooting JPEG (because my first digital camera (an Olympus point and shoot) did not have RAW capability.  When I bought my first DSLR (a Canon 10D - many years ago) I started shooting in RAW + JPEG because, at first, I just didn't trust RAW.  Shortly thereafter, I noticed that I was never touching the JPEG images I had captured and began shooting only RAW.  The only JPEGs that I edit are ones from our rescue volunteers and I edit these first with the Camera RAW filter.

There are many things that I like about RAW but, generally it is the control I have; whether that be control over light balance or the ability to adjust the perspective in the image.