ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS 7.0
User Guide
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To adjust the rendering of non-neutral colors in Camera Raw
Sometimes colors rendered by Camera Raw do not look as expected. The cause may be a difference between a
camera’s profile and Camera Raw’s built-in profile for that camera model. Alternatively, the photo may have been
taken under nonstandard lighting conditions beyond the compensating range of Camera Raw. The Calibrate tab has
Hue and Saturation sliders to adjust the settings for Camera Raw’s built-in camera profile to render non-neutral
colors differently. You can also specify whether to use the profiles built into Camera Raw or a profile built into the
file itself.
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In the Calibrate tab, choose a profile from the Camera Profile menu:
Important:
The options that appear in the Camera Profile menu depend on whether a camera raw file has a profile
embedded or whether it has been processed with a previous version of Camera Raw. Often, the Camera Profile menu
only contains the ACR 3.0 option.
ACR 3.0
Uses the built-in camera profile of Camera Raw 3.0.
Embedded
Uses the profile embedded in the camera raw file.
ACR 2.4
Uses the built-in camera profile of Camera Raw 2.4. This option is available for only certain cameras. If
you’ve fine-tuned your settings for the older Camera Raw built-in profile, you can select this option to use that profile
instead.
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Use the Hue and Saturation sliders to adjust the red, green, and blue in the image. Look at the preview image as
you make adjustments until the image looks correct. In general, adjust the hue first and then adjust its saturation.
Moving the Hue slider to the left (negative value) is like a counterclockwise move on the color wheel, and moving it
to the right (positive value) is like a clockwise move. Moving the Saturation slider to the left (negative value) desat-
urates the color, and moving it to the right (positive value) increases saturation.
Adjustments made in the Calibrate tab affect the selected image in the Camera Raw dialog box. If you want to save
the adjustments and make them the default image settings for the files from a specific camera, click the triangle next
to the Settings menu and choose Save New Camera Raw Defaults from the Camera Raw menu.
Camera Raw settings
Working with Camera Raw settings
In the Camera Raw dialog box, you can change the default image settings and save the adjusted settings as the new
camera default. You can always restore the original Camera Raw default settings for the specific camera (click the
triangle to the right of the Settings pop-up menu and choose Reset Camera Default from the Camera Raw menu).
Because Camera Raw can identify which camera was used to take an image, you can save different default image
settings for different cameras.
You can also save Camera Raw settings for a specific lighting condition and reapply them to images taken under
similar conditions. Alternatively, you can save only a subset of the Camera Raw settings. This lets you create presets
for custom white balances, specific lens settings, and so forth. In Adobe Bridge, you can also update all settings or a
subset.
When a camera raw image file is processed with Camera Raw, the image settings are stored in one of two places: the
Camera Raw database file or a sidecar XMP file. You can set a preference to determine where settings are stored.
After Effects and Bridge remember the settings for each camera raw image file. When you reopen a camera raw
image, all the settings sliders 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.
