With a raw file, all these – and many other values – are ‘floating’ and can be adjusted to give the look you want, rather than the fixed look the camera delivered. The values for the exposure, white balance, colour saturation, contrast and sharpening are all embedded in the file, and give the picture a particular ‘look’ – essentially, what you reviewed on the camera’s screen after taking the shot. With a JPEG or other ‘normal’ image format, lots of attributes that make up the image are fixed in place at the time the file is saved to the camera’s memory card. Just wanted all the options on the table.When you shoot raw files, you get the chance to change the white balance and other contrast and color settings in Adobe Camera Raw, even after you've taken the picture. Here is the link to this script (he no longer supports it).

Given that scripts often have issues when new OSes are introduced, I don't give this high probability yet he wrote this script so that in CS6, you could take any Layer and access the ACR editing tools. The second approach I have not tried out for a long time and is a script that was written by Dr Brown in the days of CS6. After the link is the cut and paste of the specific script to which I am referring: Just wanted all the options on the table. You can do this at any point when editing in PS yet only for this Layer you brought in from ACR. If you double click on the thumbnail of that image it will jump back to ACR for further editing. When clicking that button in this mode, a Layer will open in PS that is a Smart Object. This first one will work yet may not meet your needs.īring your JPEG in through ACR (as you indicated you did) and before jumping into PS, hold down the Shift Key and the button labled 'Open Image' will change to 'Open Object'. I wanted to add my thoughts here as there are two potential ways (one may not work) to access the Camera Raw editor from within CS6

What is camera raw in photoshop