How To Bring Up Camera Raw In Photoshop

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*Updated December 2020*
I recently wrote an introduction to Camera Raw in Photoshop, briefly outlining what Camera Raw is, and what the raw file format is. In this follow-upwards tutorial, we'll take a look at how to open images in Camera Raw.

We can work with Raw, JPEG and TIFF files in Camera Raw. This gives united states of america access to very powerful and rapid tools for paradigm editing.

Y'all can change anything from improving exposure to making colour adjustments to converting your picture to Black and White. You can remove haze in your photos or sharpen a moving picture and so much more.

All of this with but a few clicks of the mouse and a drag of a slider.

The best thing nearly using Camera Raw is that we can edit photographs non-destructively. The edits you lot make are saved as a series of instructions.

The edits are not applied permanently to your photo, and then y'all tin come dorsum at any time to edit and re-edit your images.

Opening Files In The Camera Raw Interface

Earlier we tin can practise any of this absurd editing though, nosotros need to get our prototype files INTO Photographic camera Raw.

You tin open a raw file in Photoshop, in much the same way as you would open up any other type of image file. The difference is, the raw file opens in the Camera Raw interface instead of the main Photoshop workspace.

If yous need it you lot can Download a Photoshop Free seven Day Trial which includes Camera Raw.

How To Open up Raw Files From The File Browser

To open a raw file from your Windows File Explorer, or Mac Finder, you tin can practise any of the post-obit:

Double-click the file's icon. If Photoshop isn't already open, your estimator volition launch information technology and so open the Camera Raw window.
In the example below, the .ORF files are raw files from my Olympus camera in the Windows File Explorer.

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Ctrl + Click (Mac) or Right-Click (Windows) on the file then choose Open With > Adobe Photoshop. This will open Photoshop if it'south not already open up and and then open up the Camera Raw window.

As Camera Raw was originally made to procedure photos taken in raw format, if you double-click on a raw image on your calculator it SHOULD automatically launch Photoshop and open the image within Photographic camera Raw.

If the raw file doesn't open, check that y'all have the latest version of Camera Raw from Adobe's Creative Deject if you're using Photoshop CC. Or check the Adobe website for updates if you lot're using an older version of Photoshop.

How To Open Images in Camera Raw From Bridge

It'due south elementary to open Raw, JPEG and TIFF files from Adobe Span.

Here are iii different means to get your photo from Bridge to Photographic camera Raw:

Double-click a raw file thumbnail image in the Content panel. The epitome opens in Camera Raw.

Click once on whatsoever thumbnail image of a Raw, JPEG or TIFF file, then press Ctrl + R (Windows) or Cmd + R (Mac).

Click one time on any thumbnail image in the Content console and then choose File > "Open up in Camera Raw."

How To Open up JPEG or TIFF images in Camera Raw

You lot tin open up JPEG or TIFF files from Bridge (as mentioned above). You can as well open a JPEG or TIFF from Photoshop, direct into Photographic camera Raw, past doing the following:

In Windows: From Photoshop'due south File bill of fare, choose Open As. Scan through your folders to observe the JPEG or TIFF image you want. Click on the file you're interested in, then change the pop-up carte at the bottom right to Camera Raw, and then click Open.
On a Mac: From Photoshop's File bill of fare, choose Open. The Open up dialog appears. Browse through your folders to find the JPEG or TIFF image you desire. Click on the file you want. In the Format pop-upwardly menu at the bottom it will say JPEG (or TIFF if you chose a TIFF file), now click on that menu, then choose Camera Raw. Then click the Open push button and your epitome will open in Camera Raw.

How to Make JPEGs and TIFFs Always Open In Camera Raw

If you lot'd like to ready upward so that every time you open up a JPEG or TIFF, it opens directly in Photographic camera Raw, you tin can do that in the Photographic camera Raw preferences.

Note: This might be useful for photographers, just I don't recommend it for designers. It could get pretty annoying if all your design files automatically opened in Photographic camera Raw.

1. Go to Photoshop > Preferences > Camera Raw (Mac) or Edit > Preferences > Photographic camera Raw (Windows)

2. Click on the File Treatment section on the left-hand side.

Nether JPEG and TIFF Treatment, ready both JPEG and TIFF to Automatically Open All Supported JPEGs and Automatically Open up all Supported TIFFs, respectively.

three. Click OK. Note that this change won't kick in until the side by side time you start Photoshop.

How To Open Multiple Files At A Time In Camera Raw Using Adobe Bridge

You can open up multiple files in Camera Raw from Bridge. You can and so use the same edits to multiple files simultaneously.

This can be really handy if you take a pile of images that were all taken in the same environment and crave the same sort of adjustments, such equally creating more contrast or removing color casts.

To open multiple files from Span, into Camera Raw, do the following:

1. In Span, open the folder holding your photos.

2. Shift + Click all of the images you want.

three. Choose File > Open In Camera Raw.

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Your images open up in Camera Raw.

Notice the film strip of thumbnail images forth the lesser.

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How To Edit Multiple Images Simultaneously In Camera Raw

1. Choose any photo to edit by simply clicking on the thumbnail. Or choose more than than ane photo by holding down Shift and clicking on the thumbnails of the pictures you want to edit.

In the instance below, I selected all of the thumbnails, then applied a Black and White preset to convert them. All four images are converted to Blackness and White using the same settings simultaneously.

We'll talk well-nigh Camera Raw presets in a time to come tutorial.