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

879 Hiding the Filmstrip in Camera Raw

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

879 Hiding the Filmstrip in Camera Raw

- Hey gang, the is Deke McClelland welcome to Deke's Techniques. Alright, starting in Camera Raw 11 and continuing into version 12 and I presume later, you now see the film strip panel on the left side of the screen, even when just one photograph is open. Which is nuts, because the entire purpose of this panel is to let preview and select multiple photos. Camera Raw offers no command or option to close it, and yet there is a way, as I'm about to show you. - [Deke] Alright, for starters here I want to show you what version of Camera Raw I'm using. And so, here I am inside Adobe Bridge, at which point I'll go into the Edit menu and choose Camera Raw Preferences and we can see up here in the title tab the version number which is essentially 12.1, but it's very possible you may be working with an earlier or later version of this plug-in. Anyway, I'm going to go ahead and cancel out. Notice that they're both raw photographs that I have converted to the .dng format, which is Adobe's digital negative format by the way. And now, I'll go ahead and right-click on this thumbnail and choose open in Camera Raw, in order to host Camera Raw inside Bridge. You also have a keyboard shortcut of CTRL+R here on the PC or CMD+R on the MAC. Now notice I have Camera Raw set up so that it fills the entire screen, you can change that however by clicking on the toggle full screen mode icon right here, you also have a keyboard shortcut of F. At which point notice, I'm once again seeing the version of Camera Raw up here in the title tab. Alright, but I want to go ahead and fill the screen, so I'll just go ahead and press the F key. Alright, so notice even though just one image is currently open we're still seeing this vertical film strip panel over here on the left hand side of the screen. And Adobe's reasoning is that this fly-out menu is the only way you can get to the enhanced details command. Now, I for one never use that feature, it would be great if there was another command that was right here that said close panel, or something along those lines. But notice, even if I right-click inside the panel, I just see that same fly-out menu. Alright, notice this vertical bar right here between the base of panel and the right hand side of the screen and the image preview, if I hover my cursor over that vertical edge, it just change to a black arrow and nothing more. So in other words there's nothing I can do with this vertical bar. There is something I can do with this one however, notice the one that divides the film strip panel from the image preview, when I hover over it, I can see a scale cursor, at which point, I can increase the size of the film strip panel if I wanted to or I could decrease its size all the way to non-existent like so. Another way to work, is to double-click on this vertical bar, so double-clicking will bring the bar back, as we're seeing right here. I don't want it to be that thick however, so I'll go ahead and reduce its width. Double-clicking again will make that panel disappear, and now all I have to do is click any of these buttons down here, including cancel will work just fine, and Camera Raw will remember what I've just done. So, if I select this other raw image and right-click on it and choose open in Camera Raw or even if I just choose the standard open command in order to switch over to Photoshop here, which is now hosting Camera Raw, notice the plug-in is remembering that I don't want see the film strip panel. Alright, I'm just going to go ahead and cancel out. Now, as I said I'm in Photoshop, so if I want to switch back to Bridge I need to go up to the file menu and choose browse in Bridge, and now lets say I select multiple images just by marqueeing them like so, and I right-click in either one of them and choose open in Camera Raw. Then this time around because Camera Raw recognizes that we're opening multiple images at a time, it displays the film strip panel. Which makes a lot of sense because now, I might want to switch back and forth between these images. You still have the option however, to hide the panel just be once again double-clicking on its vertical bar. And that is how you hide the film strip panel or bring it back, here inside the most recent version of Camera Raw. - Say gang, did you notice that shot of all those sea lions dipping down into that deep blue water? This guy right here, I shot that, but not well. And yet, I was able to utterly transform it into something not nearly so horrible in Camera Raw as I'm about to show you next week. Deke's Techniques each and every week. Keep watching.

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