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Changing color space in Camera Raw

Changing color space in Camera Raw - Photoshop Tutorial

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Changing color space in Camera Raw

If you're working in Camera Raw, there's a very important raw setting that you're going to want to double check. This is an image you saw earlier when were sharpening, you saw the finished version of this image, this is my original raw file of it. And when I open it up, if I look down at the bottom here I can see that the camera has tagged it as an sRGB image, I didn't have my camera set properly. I can also see that it's currently being converted into an 8-bit image at these pixel dimensions with this resolution setting. I am going to click on this here, because I need to alter these workflow options, which is what Adobe calls this particular set of parameters. First of all, my camera shoots 12 to 14 bits of data per pixel, that's a really nice big number, but as Camera Raw is converting it, it's chopping those done to 8-bit numbers. This does not affect my total range of colors, but it does affect the amount of intermediate colors that I have. That means that as I start to edit, I'm…

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