1. Describe how using Camera Raw to adjust your color settings, sharpening and vignetting features to improved your images.
Camera raw makes it very easy to adjust color. The sharpening features seemed a bit more subtle and in the smaller images, it is hard to see the effects. But I'm sure it has a much bigger effect on a large, high res, print. Vignetting was a fun way to frame a photo with light or shade.
2. Describe how you will use the Preset feature in the future.
I think that preset will be very useful to automatically recreate a set of camera raw changes that you like.
3. What was your intent for results by using the dodge, burn and sponge
features?
The dodge tool was good at lightening up shady areas. The burn tool did the opposite and added darkness to areas. And the sponge tool could be used to either saturate or desaturate the colors. I was a little confused about when to use the midtones or shadows settings.
4. Explain how you decided which healing tools to remove imperfections of
images.
The spot healing tool was best for small blemishes or hairs where it was easy for photoshop to use content aware to fill the area. The regular healing tool worked better if you needed to pull that content from a specific area or a little farther away. The patch tool seemed to work like a lasso, maybe I wasn't totally understanding its best use? The red eye tool worked great in the book example.
5. What challenges did you experience in the process?
When I went back to save for the web, I had issues because I couldn't figure out how to get the originals to open in photoshop without all the camera raw changes applied. I had to rename the files to disassociate them with their xmp files. And with the jpegs, I couldn't do that and had to go back and recopy the photos from their original locations to show pre camera raw colors.
6. What keyboard shortcuts are you using regularly now?
C for Crop
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