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When to load preprocessed files

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When to load preprocessed files

You may decide that you want to process the images in advance. I don't care how you do it, but let me just show you using something simple like Adobe Camera Raw. I'll open up the raw files and we'll start with the base exposure. Let's zoom in here a bit. And I'd like to add some clarity to help pop some of the selective contrast. And I think my base exposure is just a tad hot, so I'm going to pull that down and then jump on into the details tab. Let's put a little bit of additional sharpening and pop the details, and I'm going to come back and add a little more clarity. Toggling that before and after, I like how that's turning out. Now, I'm pretty happy with that but I'd like to fix some of the perspective issues. The image is just a little bit crooked, well, remember Adobe Camera Raw has a great set of tools called lens correction. And, you could do things like fix perspective issues with just a single click before, after. In fact, I can go after just the horizontal or vertical lines…

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