Week 4- Lecture

Introduction to Adobe Camera Raw

Lightroom vs. Bridge

The Cache file contains the thumbnails, there is no application that is used to open this information it is just stored in a folder. This is the information about the metadata and general image info as well. TOOLS > CACHE (in bridge)
Adobe Bridge allows you to double click on an image and open it directly in camera raw or photoshop.
CTRL+R (open in Camera Raw) Command+R (macs)
ALT (makes the cancel button a reset button.

RAW Workflow:
Open Camera Raw.
Lens Corrections (fix the chromatic abberations)
Straighten/crop tools (use the ratio options)
White balance & Temperature. (Use the white balance eye dropper to select the neutral mid tone grey which will give a correct rendering of white balance.
Synchronise settings.
In bridge highlight/select the images you want then in raw- can open and edit one and sync the settings to the rest.
Lightroom uses "develop" to alter the images.

Additive and Subtractive Color Models

Questions from sheets

Part One:
What is the keyboard shortcut for creating a new document? Command N
What is the size of the image in megapixels: 2480 x 3508 Megabytes: 24.9
What is the keyboard shortcut for the marquee/ellipse tool? M
What key forces the ellipse to be a circle? Shift Key
What is the shortcut to fit the image to the screen? or enter full screen mode? F
What color appears after the images for each circle?
Red: Cyan
Green: Magenta
Blue: Yellow
What is the keyboard shortcut to group layers? Command G
What color are the after images for each circle in the subtractive color model.
Cyan: green
Magenta: red
Yellow: blue

What is the size of the psd file? 1.2mb

Part Two:
What is the keyboard shortcut for opening an existing document? Command O
What is the keyboard shortcut for the paint fill tool? G
What is the keyboard shortcut for the move tool? M
The Blue green and red circles simulate the ADDITIVE color system.

Changing the blending mode to difference simulates the SUBTRACTIVE color system.

Metadata

Adobe defines Metadata as 'a set of standardized information about a file.' That includes things like, the creator, location, name, resolution, color space, copyright, keywords, and camera data. Most digital cameras immediately attach some simple metadata to your images before it even leaves the camera, such as height, width, file format, and the time the image was taken.

Metadata is stored in the XMP file (Extensible Metadata Platform) which almost all adobe programs can read. Adjustments made to the raw file in camera raw are remembered in the XMP data.

Week 1- Lecture