How to Work with RAW Images in Photoshop

[@davidlenoir826]

My workflow with raw photos in ps was to "Open Image" from Camera Raw then convert to smart object then the go back into Camera Raw from ps to begin my adjustments. You have totally streamlined that process with the one tip. Super helpful! Thanks

[@DRei618]

This is absolutely helpful and at the same time mindblowing! Worked without adobe camera RAW for so long and i didn't notice the checkbox existed. I'm saved...

[@Madhuri7891]

i was editing a portrait in lightroom and brought it to photoshop for retouching...and suddenly thought about the advantages of camera raw and its clearly marked icons for brushes and other tools instead of having to create layers in the main photoshop page....and lightroom directly opens raw files to the main workflow page instead of camera raw... so i started searching...and this...this tutorial is the absolute god sent... not only you showed the most important tip of ensuring to make the base image as a smart object..but you also answered another important question i had for a very long time... LIGHTROOM IS FULL OF SLIDERS FOR WHICH A MOUSE IS MORE USEFUL THAN A PEN AND TABLET. ( of course ive got the Loupedeck + which made wonders for my workflow) THEREFORE WHY MANY PHOTOGRAPHERS SWEAR BY A TABLET TO EDIT ? Im sure you didnt intend for this in this tutorial but you have given me a major paradigm shift ....at my entire workflow. i already own a tablet and was struggling to use to edit in lightroom...and some of the portrait photographers and retouchers i met actually told me they use lightroom very sparingly and that kept puzzling me. This tutorial...this actually answers a TON of questions for me. Hereafter i am going to: cull my portraits through bridge import my images to LR Close LR Come back to bridge Open the image i want to edit in PS And carry on with the magic of camera raw Open as smart object in PS Do retouching (Frequency separation and Dodge and Burn) Then export as JPG Come to think of it, there is a good chance that i wont even need to use lightroom anymore!! If you have tips where i can still incorporate lightroom in this workflow...do let me know.. The word thank you is never going to cut it....but for the lack of a better word...THANK YOU SO DAMN MUCH!!!!

[@Unterhemdenmann]

Tony Stark sure knows how to Photoshop

[@TheUsworldwide]

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[@tazoedwan1824]

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[@BANANALANDMEDIA]

thank you!

[@TESSALACOMBATTANTE]

Thank you so much, you rock...

[@centurysfinest]

Bro you're a GOAT. Thank you so much for these tutorials. Really appreciate it.

[@joanobrienphotography1513]

absolutely amazing help thank you so much

[@gizwardu5773]

Thanks for this information. Never heard or seen it before. It's really helpful

[@sovu9399]

Very useful! Thank you!

[@arvindahir6437]

Thank you very informative for a beginner

[@BenConley]

Excellent thank you very much!

[@NathanMills1]

Thank you, Aaron. That was extremely helpful! It's these little things that make all the difference, and you are a master at delivering those!

[@andinurfadillah7243]

thanks man . you helped me so much thank you again

[@loutrujillo9606]

wow. you make it so easy. I like the way you teach. thank you very much. I love your videos.

[@toddeukel867]

Love PHLEARN and these tutorial series.

[@Ipehchan]

Amazing style... and info too

[@colinstalker]

Thanks so much I knew this was the right place to enquire. Love your work!

[@phlearn]

thanks for watching!

[@simomonster]

Thank you Aaron , you are one of a kind .

[@QuicknStraight]

Very helpful!

[@filmifreak3823]

To the point! Just what I needed.

[@gerhardmoeller774]

Thank you... Great start for dealing with RAW images!

[@ScotMorrisonKA3DRR]

Thank you for your instructive video as I'm an introductory-level editor just learning how-to edit my raw files. I enjoyed your snappy pace in this video. Straight-forward, and to the point.

[@wilsonricharda]

This is an excellent tutorial. Thank you.

[@stefansluyter1588]

Thank you, Aaron. That was extremely helpful!

[@blueart76]

Love your tuts! Thanks for posting.

[@jonnyspa27]

BIG HELP here! I'd been doing my RAW adjustments, then flipping to normal PS mode and losing all of my edits. Much appreciated for the tips!

[@taiark4840]

Exactly what i was looking for! Thnaks so much

[@SeijinLaw]

Great video !

[@busterbell871n]

Yes I would like much like many others some further explanation. I start with an image from lightroom that I edit and then transfer straight to photoshop if required to do whatever and when finished transfer it it back to lightroom to finish off and export.

[@nnadn9860]

thank you you were helpful

[@bashosquinoaa4191]

Thank you sir. Good stuff

[@UzumakiGarage]

that was cool thanks!

[@kenjiburtley2088]

Well done. Thank you for your support!!!!

[@johnkeating3891]

Excellent as always!

[@AlainLafleche1]

Thanks. it help a lot.

[@Ladymusicc]

This is incredibly useful, helpful and insightful. And also you have such a great personality. I loved how you spoke and educated the viewers. It was actually enjoyable to watch and listen. Thank you so much for the video. Wow.

[@xlauranatalie]

Thank you! This was confusing me so much and I couldn't find any other help online that made it as simple as this tutorial! Nice work! Instant subscribe!

[@rachelmillerarts]

This video really helped me a lot. Thank you!

[@sarathskumar9129]

Loved it.

[@backeditor4724]

Thanks its really help me out 👍😳

[@Game_bugs001]

You are so professional !

[@sleepyricky4826]

Thank you SO MUCH for THIS!

[@Dennisblackstorm]

Totally awesomeness

[@mixerinc]

Thank you so much for this- super helpful

[@sequentialable12]

Thank you very much better than half hour tuition with zoom in teacher

[@sc85photography75]

Great video. I am brand new to photo editing and have no odea what im doing. This was a huge help to get me started

[@imspectra147onroblo1]

Amazing video! I have been shooting in .jpeg for a year or two and have never touched The RAW setting until I found this video!

[@gaiam.c.cittati7066]

Fantastic and useful tutorial. Thank you!

[@bestbass42]

Man o man! What a bloody rigmarole to edit a photo!!! Just imagine if you shoot 300-400 in a day-which most people do with digital cameras, it'll take forever editing them!!! You'd of thought in this day and age there would be a way of saving the 'raw' file so its just like a jpeg that you can edit as easily as a jpeg.

[@BOSSVISUALS]

Is there a way to use the same settings you created before importing the photo into photoshop for all other photos shot on same day?

[@OliverHenaineOficial]

GREAT TUTORIAL! GREAT CHANNEL.

[@IssueBoyStefan]

Nice one! I usually open the raw files as smart objects holding shift on the keyboard, but this one seems to be more flexible.

[@sebastianvangen]

Thank you!!! You learned me to take my next step in photo.

[@sxxx73]

amazing stuff..thnx

[@andritj5385]

very very helpfulllllll👍

[@muddyexport5639]

Question: I am confused. Converting to a smart object I thought means that you are working on the math of the object, so to speak, and not the image itself. So why go back to Camera Raw to make adjustments? Can you just make those adjustments to the Smart Object and still get back to the original image? What am I missing in the need to revert back to keep the flow proper?

[@ige8621]

same question!

[@iamsiddhantsahu]

When saving as a "psd" or "tiff" we have the option to select "layers" and "save as copy". What are those for? Loved this video and the video on ICC color profiles.

[@sum1sw]

Great tutorial, thank you very much. Can I adjust the levels while in the RAW editor?

[@davidgambin2551]

Finally someone clarified that to me!!! 🎉

[@lovephotography1966]

You're amazing 👏

[@theo.rivera]

This was a pretty cool short tutorial... I needed to learn this. Sidebar Question - How do I get that "spot healing brush tool"? I would love to learn more about that tool. Thank you kindly.

[@zillaquazar]

thank you Sooo much, I was going through lightroom and often something goes wrong along the way. You are amazing

[@BrodyLando]

Thanks Aaron! Learned a lot from this once again! Love your content

[@elzo_smid]

Thanks, this was very helpful.

[@RNAbarton]

Thank you

[@DesignsbyJonathanUSA]

Great info thanks!

[@santoshedke5527]

Thanks

[@samuellechuga5139]

Awesome thank you (out of curiosity is there any way you can save the image as a raw file instead of tiff? or is that the standard photoshop)

[@graphicspacechannel9177]

Ohh nice 1 ❤

[@bhavikbhavsareditzz]

Y u great photoshoper 😁😁😁 always new learn wid u

[@gregwoolliscroft6255]

Thank you this was great to watch....but when I did exactly as you said, once bringing into PS I can't use certain tools, it says to rasterize the image but there is no option to do that.....something is missed out...

[@phlearn]

Hey there! if you send us an email to support with a screenshot of your PSD file and layers our team will do their best to guide you 🤗

[@Bob-Horse]

Interesting video, thanks. Questions for you, anyone - * I mostly shoot Fujifilm, so I switched from Lightroom over to Capture One Pro as I saw Lightroom RAW conversions left worm-like artefacts in the image, but Capture One Pro did not. I assume they anyone can just use Photoshop on its own for all editing? Also, * As Photoshop is from the same Adobe stable, does it also have those worm-like artefacts? Finally, * I’m not sure why you have to keep jumping back to Camera Raw to change things like WB, why can’t you change that in Photoshop? Any help or advice much appreciated.

[@WFTSCLIENTPROOFS]

Very helpful. Thank you! Btw, what kind of camera did you use for this?

[@mohammadzahri9782]

great channel this makes learning FUNNNNN one question here, how about doing few editing in lighrtoom then editing it as smart object in photoshop

[@Malro87]

That was super informative! Thank you!

[@ChronosCooper]

Is it any different from going to Filter-> Camera Raw Filter? And thanks Aaron, Adobe shouldnt hide such thing there

[@howdareyou41]

Yes it's different because that's applying edits to the PSD, using a smart object applies edits to the original RAW file

[@user-hk2vp5lf6m]

Loooover YOU!!!! AWESOME its was my main qestion. now i can do more things than before. now i can find new answers on questions like a how edit this is all and work with layers and other other other! Thank you dear!!!!

[@Taz66]

Great tips!

[@paulm8157]

Instructive (nice verbal sound effects, too 😁). I’ve been using LR and then PS as needed, before going back to LR. Haven’t had any issues. However, this vid gives me another option - always good to have several workflow options.

[@paperpapier1]

Great tutorial.

[@emirchan6516]

Thank you so much you fixed my biggest problem with editing Raw files in photoshop. 👍😂👍

[@joannamcgaughey6241]

I have learned so much from PHLEARN!! So right now I import and cull in lightroom saving as .tif files. Adjust white balance etc. before working in Photoshop. Should I be keeping these initial lightroom files as .DNG so I keep the RAW info going into Photoshop?

[@mutlunun]

It is a very basic tutorial but sometimes it is good to make a recap.

[@msturi2002]

Thank U !!! You just saved me a huge headache.. Now, back to editing 😃

[@VijayMarsonia99]

Good bro

[@accentontheoff]

Just out of curiosity, what format does Photoshop convert the photograph into when it imports said photograph. Thanks.

[@JG124_]

Nice

[@charliethebubbles]

Thank you very much.

[@dr.chrisfragiskatos8341]

Awesome, thank you. I was wondering how to get back to raw from ps.

[@speedfox1989]

Actually from my point, I think ProPhoto RGB is way too huge color space. It cannot be perfomed well in any standard screen, projector, printing, etc. Why you recommend to use that color space while we cannot use some color gamut outside of Adobe RGB, sRGB and certainly CMYK (if we go for printing)? Could you explain it for me please Aaron @phlearn ?

[@oIMADMANIo]

If you allow me to give an Idea here - i guess its the Point that for retouching and develop a Picture you are doing this with the most Infomation you can get - like 16-Bit and the largest Colorspace - to have these space to work with and "walk" with your picture in there. Informations always gets lost, as you say, so why lose them if you don´t have to. greetings & have fun :)

[@Borsting89]

@Tom Wang Michael K is absolutely right. It`s not about being able to perceive and distinguish every colour, but rather being able to tweak/adjust/saturate/hue-change/light-change without ending up with a bad colour gradient. Search for "bad color gradient 8 bit" on google and you`ll understand what I mean.

[@ahmadzaatiti3838]

Hi , mr Aaron i realy like the channel and i've seen many tutorial specialy with you doing it And you make me smile every time i watch you :) I have 1 question : Recently i bought a new desktop for my photography and design work but i still have an OLD SCREEN So what type and brand of screen do you recommand for this type of work Thank you so much keep making tutorials we love you ❤

[@crilauriola]

it would be cool a video about drawing tabs, i just got mine and i would like to know something about it, how to set it and how to use it, how to improve etc..! (also i'm the third )

[@leapulse7874]

Hello i need urgent help... Everytime i import photo in Photoshop . Camera raw change my profile . How do i fix ? Please

[@txxcaptain38]

your video Are very good but your style which keeps changing with every video is also very good.

[@nco6893]

finally a video that covers this.

[@TheFrogmanTV]

You can open images as a smart object from Lightroom. The Lightroom camera raw interface is much nicer and the management of multiple photos is much easier. I really don't think telling people this method is better than Lightroom > Photoshop is always accurate. Nor is it always destructive. Maybe this is preferable for a single image in some cases. For photographers who have libraries with thousands of photos, using Lightroom and Photoshop in combination is a much more tolerable workflow.

[@nurb2kea]

Instead of opening different dialogs to get the info on color space, dimensions etc. just open the 'info' panel and set it up once in the panel options. This way you save time and have all the info handy at all time. ;-)

[@emrahy.849]

great...thnx a lot dude

[@akoldrone5874]

hey i like you video i have a question i been doing this way for my editing but while im in photoshop the prophoto profile looks good nice and punchy but when i export i know i need to convert to srgb i end up losing my look the saturation i work on disappears any way to compensate? should i work in srgb instead?