Creative Adobe Suite 5 Manual

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Chromatic aberration is caused by the failure of the lens to focus different colors to the same spot. In one type of 
chromatic aberration, the image from each color of light is in focus, but each image is a slightly different size. Another 
type of chromatic artifact affects the edges of specular highlights, such as those found when light reflects off of the 
surface of rippled water or the edges of polished metal. This situation usually results in a...

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Vertical Corrects perspective caused by tilting the camera up or down. Makes vertical lines appear parallel.
Horizontal Corrects perspective caused by angling the camera left or right. Makes horizontal lines parallel.
Rotate Corrects for camera tilt.
Scale Adjusts the image scale up or down. Helps to remove empty areas caused by perspective corrections and 
distortions. Displays areas of the image that extend beyond the crop boundary.
3Under Chromatic...

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Radius Adjusts the size of the details that sharpening is applied to. Photos with very fine details may need a lower 
setting. Photos with larger details may be able to use a larger radius. Using too large a radius generally results in 
unnatural-looking results.
Detail Adjusts how much high-frequency information is sharpened in the image and how much the sharpening 
process emphasizes edges. Lower settings primarily sharpen edges to remove blurring....

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Color Reduces color noise.
Color Detail Controls the color noise threshold. Higher values protect thin, detailed color edges but may result in color 
specking. Lower values remove color speckles but may result in color bleeding.
For video tutorials about reducing noise in Camera Raw, see:
Better noise reduction in Photoshop CS5 by Matt Kloskowski
Lens correction and noise reduction with Adobe Camera Raw by Russell Brown
Photoshop CS5 - Camera Raw 6.0...

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Photoshop CS5 - Camera Raw 6.0 (video) by Justin Seeley
Vignette and grain effects in Camera Raw
Simulate film grain
The Grain section of the Effects tab has controls for simulating film grain for a stylistic effect reminiscent of particular 
film stocks. You can also use the Grain effect to mask enlargement artifacts when making large prints.
Together, the Size and Roughness controls determine the character of the grain. Check grain at varying zoom...

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For a video tutorial about creating postcrop vignettes in Camera Raw, see Vignetting in Camera Raw CS5 by Matt 
Kloskowski.
1Crop your image. See “Crop images” on page 61.
2In the Post Crop Vignetting area of the Effects tab, choose a Style.
Highlight Priority Applies the postcrop vignette while protecting highlight contrast but may lead to color shifts in 
darkened areas of an image. Appropriate for images with important highlight areas.
Color...

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Important: Use caution when clicking Cancel to undo snapshot changes. All image adjustments made during the 
current editing session are also lost.
To delete a snapshot, select it and click the Trash button  at the bottom of the tab. Or, right-click (Windows) or 
Control-click (Mac OS) the snapshot and choose Delete.
Snapshots applied in Photoshop Lightroom appear and can be edited in the Camera Raw dialog box. Similarly, 
snapshots created in Camera...

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You can set a preference to determine where settings are stored. When you reopen a camera raw image, all settings 
default to the values used when the file was last opened. Image attributes (target color space profile, bit depth, pixel 
size, and resolution) are not stored with the settings.
1In Adobe Bridge, choose Edit > Camera Raw Preferences (Windows) or Bridge > Camera Raw Preferences 
(Mac
 OS). Or, in the Camera Raw dialog box, click the Open...

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3Choose one of the following: 
Image Settings Uses the settings from the selected camera raw image. This option is available only from the Camera 
Raw Settings menu in the Camera Raw dialog box.
Camera Raw Defaults Uses the saved default settings for a specific camera, camera model, or ISO setting.
Previous Conversion Uses the settings from the previous image of the same camera, camera model, or ISO setting.
Preset name Uses the settings (which can be...

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You can specify workflow options settings by clicking the underlined text at the bottom of the Camera Raw dialog box.
Space Specifies the target color profile. Generally, set Space to the color profile you use for your Photoshop RGB 
working space. The source profile for camera raw image files is usually the camera-native color space. The profiles 
listed in the Space menu are built in to Camera Raw. To use a color space that’s not listed in the Space...