From the course: Deke's Techniques (2018-2021)

871 Developing your panorama in Camera Raw

From the course: Deke's Techniques (2018-2021)

871 Developing your panorama in Camera Raw

- [Instructor] All right, here's that DNG file that I merged back in the previous movie. Now what I'm going to do is show you at least one way to crop and correct this image, once again inside Camera Raw. So, notice it's a DNG file, meaning that it's still raw. It still contains, in this case, 14 bits of data per pixel per channel, which is a lot more than your standard eight bit per pixel per channel image, which means that we have a lot of wiggle room. And so, what I'm going to do here, in Adobe Bridge, incidentally, is right-click on this image and choose Open in Camera Raw, or you can press Command + R here on the Mac, or Control + R on the PC. And now, notice that the Temperature and Tint values are absolute numbers. That tells us that we're still working with the raw image data. Now, first thing I'm going to do is switch over to Lens Corrections. Now, even though Camera Raw automatically lens corrected each and every one of the original images before it merged them all together, this version of the image has not been lens corrected. And so, I'm going to turn on this checkbox, Enable Profile Corrections, which makes a slight difference as you may have seen onscreen. This is before, and this is after. And then, I'll just go ahead and turn on Remove Chromatic Aberration, because after all, why not? All right, now I'll switch back to the Basic panel, and I'm going to make a few adjustments here. I'm going to take the Exposure value down to 1.25. I just know this happens to work from, of course, trial and error experience. I'll take the Contrast value down to zero. Now, these are not going to be subtle modifications. I'm going to take the Highlights value all the way down to negative 100, and I'm going to take the Shadows value all the way up to positive 100. The reason being, I really want to see some distinction in this fog. All right, now I'm going to Alt + drag, or Option + drag, on the triangle for the Whites slider, and notice that I'm seeing some clipping appear in the 50's, and so I'll go ahead and take that value down to plus 40. And then, I'll Tab to the Blacks value, and just take it down to zero. Then, I'm going to crank the Clarity value up to its absolute maximum of plus 100. Now, you can fool around with the Dehaze value if you want to. Actually, it's having quite the effect here. I didn't even play with that before, so I'll just go ahead and take it up to plus 30, let's say. And then, I'll Tab to the Vibrance value and take it up to 70. And, I'm just not happy with a Saturation value of one. I'm going to take it down to zero. All right, now I want to create still more contrast between the sky and that fog right there. And so, I'll switch over to this fourth panel in, HSL Adjustments. I'll click on the Luminance tab right there. And then, I'll go ahead and switch to the Targeted Adjustment Tool, and I'll drag inside the sky to the left until I end up with a Blues value, as you can see over in the right-hand side of the screen, of negative 70. That's going to make that sky nice and dark, and you know what? I'm going to take the Aquas value down to negative 70 as well. All right, that's it for this panel. Now, notice, if I go ahead and switch back to the Zoom Tool, which I can get by pressing the Z key, and I click on this truck a bunch of times right here, in order to zoom in on it, you can see that it's quite noisy. And so, I'm going to go ahead and switch to this panel, Detail, and I'll take the Luminance value up to, let's say 50, in order to smooth over that noise. Now, we also have a bunch of color noise in here. And so, I'm going to crank the Color value up to 50. And, notice that we have a bunch of color modeling under the car in the shadow detail there, and so, I'm going to take the Color Smoothness value up to its maximum of 100. Now, I want to sharpen the detail, so I'll go ahead and take the Amount value up to 100. And then, notice we have all this wormy stuff going on here. That's 'cause of the Detail value. To get rid of it, take it down to zero. Never been a fan of this value. Notice it just micro-sharpens the heck out of everything. All right, so I'll go ahead and take it down to zero. And then, I'll go ahead and press the Space bar in order to get the Hand Tool, and pan over to this palm tree. And, you can see that it still has a fair amount of noise in it, but I want the detail to be even spikier. Now, the Sharpening function is going to increase the sharpness of the high frequency data, which is the tiny edges. If I switch back to the Basic panel, you can crank up the Clarity value for the low frequency data, which are the big edges. If you want to sharpen the stuff in between, then you want to go with Texture. And so, I'm going to take this guy up to 50, in order to create some nice, spiky palm fronds. All right, now I'll press Command + Zero, or Control + Zero on the PC, in order to zoom out. The last thing I want to do is crop, because after all, I don't really want these balconies to be in the shot. And, if you check out the detail on the far left-hand side, well actually, it's looking pretty good now. Some stuff must have gotten auto-cropped away, but I don't want this little bit of balcony in the top left corner. And so, I'll switch to the Crop Tool, which I can get by pressing the C key, and I'll just go ahead and drag like so, in order to keep all the stuff that's not balcony. And then, I'll just switch back to the Zoom Tool, in order to crop that image. And now, I'll just go ahead and click the Open Image button, in order to open the image inside Photoshop. Now, this is a very large image, so it is going to take a few moments for Photoshop to open it. But, a moment later, we will see the image in all of its glory. And now, to fill the screen with the image, I'll press Shift + F, in order to switch to the full screen mode, and I'll go ahead and zoom on in as well. And that is at least one way to color correct and crop a merged panorama DNG file inside Camera Raw.

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