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Photoshop Elements Tutorial: Problem Photos? Open JPEGs in ACR

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Photoshop Elements has an underutilized feature for folks who haven’t converted to shooting in Raw yet.  If you shoot in JPEG, you might think that you have to miss out on the easy exposure and white balance adjustments that Adobe Camera Raw provides. But that’s not true!  You can open any JPEG in Raw and [...]

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How Many Versions of Each Image Do You Save?

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Each time I teach a Photoshop Elements class, someone asks this question. And people are often surprised to learn that I save 4 or more copies of my favorite images. Yes, having multiple versions of the same image definitely takes up hard drive space.  That’s why I have two of these babies. I chose this [...]

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The Raw Conversion and Saving Files in PSE and ACR

April 20, 2009

Ok, so far in the Digital Photography for Moms series on shooting in Raw, we’ve covered the following topics concerning Photoshop Element’s Adobe Camera Raw: Why shoot in Raw? White balance Expsosure and color intensity Sharpening And now, the conclusion.  How exactly do you make the “Raw Conversion” and what do you do with your photos once [...]

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Processing Raw Images in Photoshop Elements/ACR

March 27, 2009

So maybe you read my post last week about the pros and cons of shooting your digital photos in RAW? And now I’ll tell you about what I do to process those RAW images, once I open them in Adobe Camera Raw (ACR for short). But first, a digression. I am a grammar fiend and [...]

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