Inside Photoshop there are tons of tools that you can use to make the most of your images. Some of these tools (although not simple) have very specific functions that you use for specific tasks (for example, Unsharp Mask ). The Photoshop Camera Raw Filter is different.

This filter opens up the use of (almost) full Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) functionality anywhere in Photoshop during work. If you have ever used Lightroom for processing the raw file, you know exactly how many possibilities this tool has.

In normal cases, you would use ACR to process photos early in your workflow during raw processing, but the Camera Raw Filter opens these tools whenever you want them.

What is the Photoshop Camera Raw Filter?

This filter allows you to use the features of the ACR interface at any time within Photoshop. Ovo vam omogućava da u bilo kom trenutku tokom radnog procesa unesete bilo kakva prilagođavanja unutar ACR-a, umesto da njegovu upotrebu ograničite na sirovu fazu obrade na samom početku.

While it’s possible to import your file into Lightroom to make the same set of adjustments, it’s faster to do it in Photoshop and speed up the whole work process. U Photoshop lets you use these tools effortlessly.

Finding the Photoshop Camera Raw Filter. Camera Raw Filter možete pronaći u meniju filtera. Da biste pronašli Photoshop Camera Raw Filter, simply select Filter – Camera Raw Filter.

Before doing this, you may want to select all layers by pressing Ctrl + Shift + Alt + e (Cmd + Shift + Alt + e). This will combine all your layers into a new layer for you to work on.

Some of the options in the Camera Raw Filter

Filter a Single Layer – If you only want to filter an image layer element with a single pixel in the image, you can simply select that layer and choose Camera Raw Filter from the Filter menu , just like you would apply any other type of Photoshop Filter-a. If you want the filter effect for that layer to be variable, select “Convert for Smart Filters” first.

B&W Conversion Tool – Camera Raw certainly offers more sophisticated ways to convert to B&W compared to Photoshop. Umesto da dodate lejer podešavanja crno-bele na vrh, sve lejere slike možete grupisati u pametni objekt, primeniti filter Camera Raw , and then choose one of the many black and white conversion options in the Camera Raw Filter .

Add a creative sharpening layer – To make images sharper, use Camera Raw you can apply additional detail sharpening adjustments that reveal more detail where it’s needed most. You can then edit the smart object’s layer mask to limit the sharpening to only those areas that require additional sharpening.

Photoshop Camera Raw Filter is a very powerful tool that you can use to process images with many different effects. In this text, we talked about only some of its numerous options.

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