349 Mixing a low-color photo with Camera Raw

Hey, gang, this is Deke McClelland.…Welcome to Deke's Techniques.…This week, we're going to take this photograph…of my girlfriend Colleen, which is okay insofar as it goes,…in that it has a nice composition,…but she's not really a Smurf,…so we're going to adjust the colors…in order to produce this really great version of the photo,…which makes it look like I'm an actual photographer,…especially when I print it at poster size like this right here.…And we're going to do so using the Camera Raw filter…in Photoshop CC.…

But here's the thing:…if you're clever enough, you could make this same technique…work in an older version of Photoshop or even Lightroom.…Here, let me show you exactly how it works.…All right, here is where we're going to start…and here is where we'll end up,…just so you have a chance to see the effect on screen.…I've already developed this image and saved it off…as a jpeg file.…Now, we want to modify the image using the Camera Raw filter…here inside Photoshop CC.…If we want to apply Camera Raw nondestructively,…