First Look: Inside Photoshop CS3
Posted 03/25/2007 at 1:43pm
| by David Biedny
Camera Raw Talent
The RAW format has become the standard for digital photographers who take their craft seriously, and Adobe has added some truly useful new tweaks to the Camera Raw screen. If you’ve ever had to adjust the overall exposure of an image to bring out dark shadow detail, you already know what happens to the light regions of the image—they tend to wash out, losing significant detail. The Fill Light slider does wonders in brightening up the overall picture, while Recovery restores the detail to the bright areas that lose their fine detailing when Fill Light is used a bit too eagerly. Vibrance does a lovely job of pumping up overall color values without pushing the image too much into clipsville, and is a good way to add life to a flat photograph.
An integrated red-eye removal tool and basic retouching brush have been added to the Camera Raw dialog, though it’s hard to justify not simply doing these tasks inside of Photoshop itself.

Recovery, Fill Light, and Vibrance work together to make our subject look, er, lovely.
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