Farmington Continuing Education

Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) was originally designed for processing RAW images (most 35mm cameras save an image either as a JPG or RAW image – a RAW image is a more robust format and is preferable for serious digital editing). There are three reasons Adobe Camera Raw may be preferable to Photoshop for digital editing:

• Photoshop is complex and difficult to master. Adobe Camera Raw, though still demanding, is considerably easier to learn and use.
• ACR has an extensive variety of editing tools. It has more than enough resources to meet the requirements of most amateur and professional photographers.
• ACR is designed to edit not only RAW images, but also JPG, TIF, and other image formats.Editing is almost mandatory for making a picture look the same as what the naked eye sees, can benefit from some editing, and be used to transform photographs into something entirely different and unique.

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