- Hi, I'm Glyn Dewis, and in this video, I'm gonna go
through some Photoshop, but something just a little bit
different, because this video is specifically
for those folks who do not have the latest and greatest
versions of Photoshop.
Alright, so it used to be that the only time you'd find
yourself using camera raw was right at the start
of your retouching, when you were opening your raw file.
However, going back a few updates now, Adobe introduced
camera raw as a filter, meaning that at any stage
in your retouching, you could dive in and out
of the camera raw filter and make use of everything
that it has available.
Now, of course, there are people out there who choose,
for whatever reason, not to be on the creative cloud
or the latest and greatest versions, so they're kind of
missing out on what is a fantastic introduction
into Photoshop, so I thought I'd put together
a bit of a workaround to show how you can overcome the fact
that you're not using the latest and greatest versions.
Now, it's not a perfect, there are a few steps to it,
but if you stick to watch the end of the video, you'll see
a way that I've also shown how to record an action
to streamline it even further.
Now, of course, you can't be having the filter there
as a one-click press, but I think this is
a pretty good workaround.
So let's dive in and I'll show you what I mean.
Okay, so let's start off, then, by going through how you use
the camera raw filter in the latest and greatest
versions of Photoshop.
So, if you the picture we've got on screen here,
this is a kind of partially retouched picture
of one of mine, called Rosa, and when we look in
the layers panel, the very top part here, we've got
a group, and this contains all the colour adjustments
I've done to get to this particular stage.
Now, for me to send this into camera raw, I can't send
the group, I need to have a merged layer, so we'll do that
by holding down the shift, control, alt, and E keys on PC,
which on Mac will be shift, command, option, and E.
That creates a merged layer at the top of the layer stack.
Let's just double-click on that to rename it, camera raw.
Then we'll go to the filter menu, over in the top
left-hand corner here, and we've got he option here
of camera raw filter.
Now, if you are gonna be working non-destructively,
this where you might want to choose, first of all,
to convert for smart filters, and that gives you the option
of adjusting any filters that you use at a later date.
Say, if you've done too much or not enough,
you can always alter it later on, but just for speed,
let's just drive straight in to the camera raw filter.
So here, we are able now to use everything that camera raw
has on offer, but just for now, we'll just choose
the radial filter, and we'll click and drag, drag that
around just a little bit, really position it just a touch,
and then just use exposure, just to control the lighting
in the picture.
So, just for something like that, and then we'll click OK.
And now we can then carry on with the rest
of the retouching.
But that's all well and good for those folks who have
the latest and greatest version with all the updates
of Photoshop, and they do have camera raw available
to them as a filter, but what do you do if you're using
older versions of Photoshop that don't actually have that?
First thing's first, we're gonna go to the image menu,
and we're gonna choose duplicate.
In the little dialogue box that appears here,
let's call this one camera raw, and then click OK.
So what we have now, then, we now have two tabs at the top
of the screen, the left-hand tab being the original picture
with all the layers, and the right-hand tab, the one
that we've just called camera raw, which is identical,
with all the layers as well.
But for this duplicate, we don't actually need
to keep all the layers.
So what I'm gonna do is go to the layer menu
and choose flatten image.
So you'll notice no difference in the picture, other than,
in the layers panel, all the actual layers now have been
compressed into one single background layer.
At this point, we'll go to the file menu, choose save as,
and I'm gonna navigate to my desktop, let's just go
to the desktop, and see here in the file name,
it's called it camera raw, which is what we
originally called the duplicate,
and we'll keep the same extension here.
I like to work in TIFF images in Photoshop.
You might just use PSD or whatever, but I'll just keep it
the same, and we'll click save.
Once it's saved it, we'll then close, let's just click OK
there, we'll just click close, 'cause we don't need
this duplicate anymore.
Now, the trick to open that file up in camera raw is this.
Go to the file menu and choose browse in bridge.
This will now open up Adobe Bridge,
and we can navigate to the desktop.
Here is our file that we've just saved on the desktop,
and we go to the file menu and choose open in camera raw.
So, at this point, everything looks like it did
when I first showed you how to do this if you had
the latest and greatest versions.
So, just like before, we can come in now.
Let's just choose that radial filter, click and drag out
that radial filter around Rosa, reposition it,
we can use the exposure just to control that lighting
just a little bit, and then we can click at the bottom
right-hand corner here to open image.
Now, you got a couple of options at this stage here.
You might be somebody who likes to work non-destructively,
like I mentioned a moment ago, where you can always go back
and alter filters if you want to at a later stage.
Now, you can send the image here into Photoshop as a smart
object, and there's a couple of ways you can do that.
The first way, if you look underneath the picture,
you got the information bar here, which tells us
what colour space we're in, the bit depth, dimensions,
the pixels per inch, and so on and so forth.
If you click on that information bar there,
this dialogue box appears, and in the bottom left-hand corner,
you can put a little tick in this checkbox that says,
open in Photoshop as smart objects.
Once you then click OK, every time you work on a picture
in camera raw, it will always send it to Photoshop
as a smart object.
Now, I don't actually do that, let's just cancel that,
all I tend to do is choose as and when I want to have
the picture as a smart object by coming down to where
it says open image, and if I hold down the shift key,
it changes to open object.
See, that's without the shift key, where it says open image,
hold down the shift key, it says open object.
So now, when I click on that, it'll then send that file
over into Photoshop, and you can see here, in the bottom
right-hand corner, it's a smart object.
Now, I get my move tool, press V on the keyboard,
get my move tool, click down on the picture, drag upwards,
on top of the tab that contains the original picture
with all the layers in, I keep my button held down,
I drag into my picture, hold down the shift key,
and then release.
Now, the reason I keep the shift key held down is because,
when we release, it puts that file perfectly centred,
so everything lines up.
So you can see now, if we go before, after, before, after,
everything is lined up perfectly, and the great thing about
this is, it looks just like it did if you had
the latest and greatest versions of Photoshop,
but because we sent it as a smart object, if I double-click
on the thumbnail, it'll then give me the flexibility
of coming back into camera raw, and if I wanted to,
I could actually then change any of the things
I did previously set.
Any of the actual settings that I messed about with
in camera raw, I can come in and change these in real time,
click OK, send it back into Photoshop,
and then carry on with the retouching.
So now that we've gone through that workaround,
let's look at how we can streamline it and make it
much quicker by recording an action.
So, first of all then, let's just get rid of this
layer at the very top there, 'cause we need to now record
every step again into an action, so we'll go to
the window menu and choose actions.
I've got a folder here called Glyn's actions.
We'll click on the icon at the bottom to create
a new action, and we'll call this one camera raw filter,
and then press record.
So now there, every single step I go through is being
recorded into this action for us to use later.
So, the workaround.
Let's have a look at all the steps we went through.
We started off by going to the image menu,
and then duplicate.
And in the dialogue here, we called it camera, whoops,
camera raw, and then clicked OK.
So now we've got the duplicate copies.
We didn't need all the layers, so we go to the layer menu
and choose flatten image.
That then completely flattens all those layers.
Then we went to the file menu, choose save as,
opens to the file name, it's what we called the duplicate.
I keep the extension exactly the same as what it is
that I'm originally working on, which, for me, is a TIFF.
You can use whatever you want.
And we navigate to the desktop and then just click save.
And once it's saved, we then, actually, just click OK there.
Once it's saved, we then just close down the duplicate,
'cause we don't need that anymore.
Then we go to the file menu and choose browse in Bridge.
So now that Bridge is opened, there's nothing more that we
can record in this action in Photoshop, so let's go back
to Photoshop and just stop the recording just there.
Let's just close that down.
But you can see all the steps in the action just here,
but let's just close it down so it doesn't get too big.
Alright, so now let's have a look at how much quicker this
makes this whole process, now that we do have an action.
But before we do that, let's just get rid of that camera raw
TIFF file on the desktop and start from scratch again.
Alright, so.
Now then, in the layers panel, we're at the stage
where we want to use camera raw as a filter,
but we don't have the latest version,
but we do have this action that we've now recorded.
So let's just click on this action and press play.
So what's gonna happen is, Photoshop will create that
duplicate, it'll rename it camera raw, it'll flatten
all the layers, it'll save it to the desktop, and then
it'll bring us into Bridge, where we can actually
see that file just here.
Now, we don't actually need to go to file
and open in camera raw.
To help things go even quicker, we can do a keyboard
shortcut now of holding down the control key on PC
or command key on Mac and pressing R on the keyboard
to send that straight into camera raw,
so this is really quick.
And let's just go and do that radial filter,
or whatever it is that you wanted to do in camera raw,
but we'll just kind of keep everything the same here.
So, radial filter, I'll send it over as a smart object
by doing the shift key and clicking on open object.
It sends it over into Photoshop.
We get the move tool, we click down, drag across on top of
the tab containing the original picture, keep the key
held down, drag it into the picture, hold down the shift
key, then release, so that it is lined up perfectly,
and then we can go before, after, before, after,
and now we can carry on with the retouch.
And so, with that action and that keyboard shortcut,
it's actually quite a quick streamlined process.
So there you go.
There's a few steps involved there, but the reason I've
recorded this video was because I'd had a few emails
from folks who got my Rosa tutorial that I released recently
and they kind of said that they don't have the latest
version of Photoshop, so how can they still do
the steps that I do when I go to camera raw as a filter
to do these kind of lighting effects.
So I'm kind of hoping that that works there.
But like I said, it's not perfect, but recording that action
definitely makes a difference.
But that's all I've got for you in this video.
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