Adobe Camera RAW (ACR) presets

Tutorial: Part 1: Preview and apply a Develop preset

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Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw software works with Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After Effects, and Adobe Bridge. You can use Photoshop Camera Raw software to import and adjust camera raw, JPEG, and TIFF files.

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In this tutorial I will show how I can select images in Adobe Bridge and apply Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) presets within Bridge and then open those files in Adobe Camera Raw with the presets already applied. I can then either save the files, edit them in ACR or open the files in Photoshop. If you are processing 300 photos from the same session with similar lighting and camera settings then developing or applying a preset for one photo and applying it to similar photos may save hours of processing time. In the screenshots below you can see my workflow on four images selected in Adobe Bridge and edited with Adobe Camera RAW

Step 1: Bridge - What is it?

Adobe Bridge comes bundled with Adobe Photoshop CS2 and CS3. It works better on computers that have a lot of memory and hard disk space and is a great way to view and organise your files. It also allows you to view, rate, add keywords, add metadata - and best of all it allows you to apply presets and see a live preview of what your photos would look like with such presets.

Figure 1: ACR settings tutorial: Four files selected in bridge

Figure 2: ACR settings tutorial: Applying a purple duotone preset in bridge. I right-clicked on Develop Settings and then duotone_315 which is one of my presets available to download.

Figure 3: ACR settings tutorial: Four files selected in bridge with preset preview

Figure 4: ACR settings tutorial: Applying a brown preset in bridge

Figure 5: ACR settings tutorial: Applying a brown duotone preset in bridge

Figure 6: ACR settings tutorial: Clearing a preset in bridge

Figure 7: ACR settings tutorial: Clear a preset - back to no preset

Figure 8: ACR settings tutorial: Open file with preset in Adobe Camera RAW

Figure 9: ACR settings tutorial: Photos with preset selected open in Adobe Camera Raw (ACR)

Figure 10: ACR settings tutorial: Opening files with preset in ACR - finding the preset in ACR

Figure 11: ACR settings tutorial: Opening files with preset in ACR



Figure 12: ACR settings tutorial: Applying a purple preset in bridge



Figure 13: ACR settings tutorial: How I made Duotone_315 preset in Adobe Camera RAW (acr)

More information:

Preview - ACR: Photoshop Camera RAW 4 http://www.applelinks.com/index.php/more/preview_acr_photoshop_camera_raw_4/

http://www.adobe.com/go/learn_ps_camerarawhelp