ptg 78 Chapter 4 Adding a grain texture In the world of traditional lm stock, the faster the speed, the larger and more apparent the grain. By using the Grain controls in Camera Raw, you can simulate this grainy texture. Pick a photo that won’t suer aesthetically when its details lose denition. To add a grain texture to a photo: ★ 1. Click the Effects tab, and double-click the Hand tool to t the image in the preview. A 2. Under Grain, to control the amount of grain applied, choose an Amount value of around 50 to make the grain noticeable. 3. To emulate the ne grain of a slow lm speed or the coarser grain of fast lm speed, do as follows: Raise the Size value for the size of the grain particles. B When this value is greater than 25, a small degree of blurring is also applied, to help blend the grain with the imagery. Lower the Roughness value below the default value of 50 to produce a more uniform grain; or raise it to produce an uneven, coarse grain. C Zoom in to examine the grain, then readjust the Amount value, if needed. C We changed the Amount to 75, the Size to 60, and the Roughness to 65. e coarser grain (increased Roughness) further unies the highlights and background with the food textures. Please pass the Parmesan… B e r s t s e t t i n g s w e c h o s e w e r e G r a i n A m o u n t 5 0 a n d Size 80 (the Roughness control was left at the default value of 50). e food textures are starting to blend with the soft background. A i s p h o t o w i l l b e a g o o d c a n d i d a t e f o r t h e Grain eect in Camera Raw, because it con- tains soft, muted colors and the details don’t need to stay crisp. ptg Camera Raw 79 Using the Adjustment Brush Unlike settings chosen in the Camera Raw tabs, which apply to the overall photo, the Adjustment Brush lets you apply local adjustments to specic areas. For example, you could adjust the exposure, brightness, or color saturation of a few key details that you want to emphasize in a composition. You draw brush strokes in the preview to dene which areas are to be adjusted, then you apply the correc- tion by adjusting the sliders. If most of the sliders for this tool look familiar, it’s because they’re like the ones in the Basic tab. To apply Adjustment Brush edits: 1. After making adjustments in the Basic and Tone Curve tabs, A click the Adjustment Brush (K). e sliders for the tool display. You will paint over specic areas to mask them rst, then adjust the sliders for those masked areas. 2. To “zero out” all the sliders except one to make the tool operational, click the + or – button for one of the sliders. 3. Choose a Feather value of 60–95 to allow the edits to fade into surrounding areas. Set the Flow to 50 (for the smoothness of the stroke), and set the Density to 60 (for the level of transparency in the stroke). 4. Check Show Mask (Y), adjust the brush size by pressing [ or ], then draw strokes over the areas of the photo that need adjustment. B A tint covers the areas that you apply strokes to. ➤ e brush size is represented by the solid circle in the pointer, and the feather value is represented by the black-and-white dashed circle. A e o r i g i n a l p h o t o i s l i t e v e n l y . W e w a n t t o a p p l y l o c a l e x p o - sure edits to lighten and darken some of the areas in the center. B On the Adjustment Brush panel, we clicked New, zeroed out the sliders, then applied strokes to mask (mark) the areas to be darkened. Because Show Mask is checked, we’re able to see where the mask is being brushed on. Continued on the following page ptg 80 Chapter 4 5. Uncheck Show Mask, then move the various slid- ers to apply adjustments to the masked areas. A 6. To apply an adjustment to another area of the photo, click New, then repeat steps 2–5 ( A–B , next page). ➤ To edit an existing adjustment, click one of the pins that marks the rst location you clicked (a black dot appears in the pin), then add to the mask and/or change the slider settings. ➤ To show or hide all the pins, press V or check or uncheck Show Pins. To remove Adjustment Brush edits: 1. With the Adjustment Brush tool selected (K), check Show Mask (Y) to display the current mask. 2. Do either or both of the following: To remove adjustments locally, click an existing pin, click the Erase button, then apply strokes where you want to erase the mask. To remove an entire pin and its adjustments, click the pin, then press Backspace/Delete. ➤ To remove all Adjustment Brush tool edits and reset the mode to New, click the Clear All button. USING THE AUTO MASK OPTION WITH THE ADJUSTMENT BRUSH To mask a specifi c color area, zoom in on it, check Auto Mask, scale the brush to cover only that area, and start a stroke with the Adjustment Brush over that color. The mask will cover only the areas that match that specifi c color. We used this method to limit an exposure adjustment to the yellow of the fl o w e r s s h o w n a t r i g h t . A Our adjustment settings (shown at right) slightly darkened the shadow area around the food in the center. ptg Camera Raw 81 B We added one last pin, which we used to desaturate the red berries at the bottom of the photo. Because the berries are now subdued, the food and owers in the center command more attention. A We clicked New again, then masked the food and yellow owers in the center. We applied a lightening adjustment to the masked area, using the settings shown at right. We also clicked the color swatch and chose a yellow tint for the lightened areas. ptg 82 Chapter 4 4. From the Type menu, choose Heal to blend source pixels into the texture and luminosity values of the target pixels or Clone to copy the source pixels exactly without healing. 5. Optional: Lower the Opacity value to lessen the retouching eect. You can also drag the edge of either circle to resize both of them simultane- ously, or add more circle pairs to correct other blemishes. To hide the circles, press V or choose a dierent tool. ➤ e retouching circles will remain available even after you click Done or Open. To redisplay them, choose the Spot Removal tool. To remove a selected pair, press Backspace/Delete, or to remove all pairs, click Clear All. Retouching a photo e Spot Removal tool can be used to remove blem- ishes or other imperfections, such as spots caused by dust on the camera lens. To remove blemishes or spots: 1. Choose the Spot Removal tool (B), and zoom in on the area to be repaired. 2. Position the pointer at the center of the area that needs repair, then drag outward to scale the target circle so it surrounds the blemish A (the Radius slider will readjust). When you release the mouse, a green and white source circle appears (which is linked to the red and white target circle), and the area within the target circle is repaired. B 3. Drag inside the target or source circle to reposition them, if necessary. C C To control where source pixels are sampled from manually, drag to reposi- tion the source circle. Pixels within the target circle will update instantly. A With the Spot Removal tool, drag a target circle around the blemish to be removed. B Camera Raw will display and position a linked source circle in a suitably similar area, and will use pixels from within the source circle to repair the blemish within the target circle. ptg Camera Raw 83 Saving and applying Camera Raw settings After carefully choosing custom settings for a photo in Camera Raw, you’ll be happy to know that you can save those settings as a preset, which you can apply to other photos, such as photos from the same shoot that need the same or similar corrections. You can apply a preset to a single photo via Camera Raw, to multiple photos via Camera Raw (see the next page), or to multiple selected thumbnails in Bridge via the Edit > Develop Settings submenu (see the tip below). To save Camera Raw settings as a preset: 1. With your corrected photo open in Camera Raw, choose Save Settings from the Settings menu. e Save Settings dialog opens. A 2. Check which categories of settings you want saved in the preset. Or to lter out the number of checked boxes, choose a category (tab name) from the Subset menu, then recheck any boxes, if needed. 3. Click Save. A dierent Save Settings dialog opens (yes, this is confusing). Enter a name (preferably one that describes the function of the preset), keep the .xmp extension and the location as the Settings folder, then click Save. 4. e saved settings preset is now available in the Presets tab for any photo (see the instructions below). You can apply a user-dened preset (saved collection of settings) to any photo in Camera Raw. To apply a Camera Raw preset: With a photo that needs correction open in Camera Raw, do either of the following: Click the Presets tab, then click a preset name. From the Apply Preset submenu on the Settings menu, choose a preset. ➤ To apply a Camera Raw preset to one or more selected photos in Bridge, right-click one of the selected thumbnails, then from the Develop Settings menu, choose the desired preset. A In the Save Settings dialog, specify which of your custom Camera Raw settings are to be saved in a preset. TAKING SNAPSHOTS OF YOUR EDITS If you save an editing stage of your photo (and the current Camera Raw settings) as a snapshot, you will be able to restore the photo to that stage at any time. Snapshots save with the Camera Raw fi le. ➤ To create a snapshot of the current settings, click the Snapshots tab, then click the New Snapshot button at the bottom of the tab. In the New Snapshot dialog, enter a name, then click OK. You can continue editing the photo. ➤ To restore the photo to a snapshot version at any time, click a snapshot name in the Snapshots tab. (If you need to restore your last custom settings, choose Custom Settings from the Settings menu.) ptg 84 Chapter 4 Synchronizing Camera Raw settings When you open multiple photos into Camera Raw, they are represented by thumbnails in a lmstrip panel on the left side of the dialog. After adjusting one photo or choosing a settings preset, you can click Synchronize to apply those settings to all the open photos. In practice, it’s unlikely that every single adjustment that is needed for one photo will work perfectly on all the rest, even if they’re from the same shoot. e Synchronize option is useful, however, for applying settings incrementally. For example, you could apply an adjustments preset or some adjustments in the Basic tab to a whole group of photos (perhaps to correct the white balance and exposure), click Synchronize, then select smaller and smaller batches for more targeted adjustments. To synchronize the Camera Raw settings of multiple photos: 1. In Bridge, select two or more image thumbnails, preferably for photos that were shot under the same lighting conditions and that require the same type of correction (they should be all raw les or all JPEG les). Double-click one of the selected thumbnails. 2. A lmstrip panel displays on the left side of the Camera Raw dialog. A Click one of the thumbnails. 3. Make the necessary adjustments to the selected image, including cropping if all the images are to be cropped in exactly the same way. You could also click a preset in the Presets tab. 4. Click Select All at the top of the lmstrip panel or Ctrl-click/Cmd-click the thumbnails that you want to apply the corrections to, then click Synchronize. e Synchronize dialog opens (it looks like the Save Settings dialog, which is shown on the preceding page). 5. Either manually check the setting(s) to be applied or choose a category from the Synchronize menu (and check any additional boxes). 6. To apply the current settings in the categories you checked to all the selected thumbnails, click OK. ➤ To cycle through the photos in the lmstrip panel, click the left or right arrowhead below the preview (in the lower right). If more than one thumbnail is selected, Camera Raw will cycle through only those photos. A When you open multiple photos into Camera Raw, the thumbnails for those images display in the lmstrip panel on the left side of the dialog. . coarser grain of fast lm speed, do as follows: Raise the Size value for the size of the grain particles. B When this value is greater than 25, a small degree of blurring is also applied, to