After using this magic sequence I see that there is still sharpening, a tone curve and much more. The stated Adobe method to reset to Camera Raw Defaults is to use CTRL-R (CMD-R on Mac). Apparently it is pretty smart unless you let ACR do its automatic thing on a night image in which case the result will not be very pleasing. What I’ve called Default RAW Adjustments in my comparison photo at the top of this article is actually automatic adjustment – I was mislead! What is automatic? It is a roulette wheel whereby you let ACR take its best guess at what it thinks will look right. CTRL-U toggles between automatic and not automatic which is the clickable text Auto in the settings dialog. Unfortunately there are sites that claim that using the CTRL-U (CMD-U) sets all the values to default. That is how I discovered that the default, Default Camera Raw settings include both sharpening and color noise reduction.īasic does not show adjustments that are in the XMP file! Further Experimentsīefore I tried to set my own Camera Raw Defaults, I followed advice I found online. The good news is that mysaved defaults are NOT doing any sharpening or noise reduction whereas the ACR defaults (the default defaults?) do mess with those. It is also not clear whether it is applying a tone curve adjustment. But wait! There are still Brightness and Contrast adjustments listed even though I had set those values to zero. When I saved my own Camera Raw Defaults I turned on Chromatic Aberration and Lens Profile correction and overrode the white balance to “Camera Faithful” just to be sure that the new Defaults were actually using my saved default settings. The non-zero settings in the XMP file after saving my custom camera raw defaults and choosing Camera Raw Defaults included the following non-zero settings: crs:Shadows="5" XMP file – sometimes called a sidecar file – that I inspected to see what has been set. I set all the values to zero, then used Save Camera Raw Defaults, selected Camera Raw Defaults for the image and opened it using the Open Object button. Using the Camera Raw Defaults (first highlighted choice in the list above) doesn’t get what you might expect! So I went further. What CTRL-R actually does is remove adjustments to Exposure, Contrast, Highlights, Shadows, Whites, and Blacks. In my tests with ACR 7.0 CTRL-R – which theoretically is the same operation as selecting Camera Raw Defaults – did not remove hand applied adjustments to clarity, tint, noise reduction, sharpening, vibration or saturation, tone curve, and other settings. Adobe says that using CTRL-R (CMD-R on a Mac) resets to the defaults for a RAW file, but it doesn’t reset everything because the default settings do have adjustments! Below are the choices for selecting, saving and resetting Camera Raw Defaults – you find this menu in the upper right of the ACR display – see more illustrations below. As my experiments show, the “default” settings for ACR apply adjustments. Unfortunately it is quite complicated to remove the default Camera Raw adjustments due to conflicting details on web sites, including on Adobe’s own FAQ. I explain why this is so in my Down with the Noise Webinar, but for now, just take my word for it! Confusion Abounds Once you make adjustments, especially changes to contrast, tone curve, brightness, shadows or exposure you increase the visibility of gaps and noise. What you may not know is that I highly recommend stacking your star trail images without making any adjustments. And there is an Adobe Camera Raw Defaults setting that is automatically applied per each camera type unless the user chooses custom settings. Every time you open a raw file, it is actually opened by Adobe Camera RAW (ACR) which is an internal component common to Photoshop, Photoshop Elements and Lightroom.
ON1 PHOTO RAW SIDECAR FILES HOW TO
You may know that Photoshop does not know how to open raw files like NEF, CR2. See below and you will discover that there is some serious misinformation on the web about ACR adjustments. On the left is an “Auto” Adjustment while the same data on the right is unadjusted.
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