Adobe Camera Raw vs ACR as a Filter

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[moondark]

How can this video not have millions views. Blake, you adress serious depth on how PS works. Very imortant knowledge if we want to get the best out of our images, PS and time we spend on our work. Amazing stuff!

[jimbembinster]

Follow up to this video. I tried it the next morning and the difference was incredible. This new workflow has added some very nice detail to my photos. Thanks, again.

[deBurrows]

Well I feel I just learned something quite important, as I always use ACR as a filter. Very well shown, thanks a lot.

[DLMlive]

Simply amazing... Great information and so well explained. Thanks much!

[Jack-seiz]

Great explanation and information. Sounds like it’s definitely best to start in PS as ACR, and finish in LR if needed. Thank you!

[LBofcourse]

Important information. Thank you for the time you put into this video content.

[TPToE]

Thanks for this - I'd wondered exactly the same thing for some time now (and intuitively always knew the answer would be as per your findings).

[JMSteger]

Blake, Very informative video as always. I had not idea that ACR as a program has more features than the Adobe Camera Raw Filter in PS. I use Lightroom as my raw file editor, but there have been occassions when I will take multiple images into PS for focus stacking without doing any edits other than lens corrections and removing chromatic abberations (I now have a preset to do this when importing from my CF card). I then edit the merged file with the ACR Filter. I was glad you confirmed that there is virtually no difference between the raw file and a DNG. This is because I import my raw files as DNG to save space. I will second Blake's comment about f.64 Elite. Check it out as it contains great content. Thanks again!

[jimmyhuajh]

thanks, this video explained all my questions, subbed

[vladimirkurganov]

Thanks Blake! I learn a lot from your videos. I also made an action with some of your tricks. which makes my workflow much faster. Your chanal is most informative and helpful about photoshop. Thanks again!!!

[blaisemontfort]

Thank you so much for that very helpful information Blake!
Best regards

[Greg.Mika.]

Hey Blake! What workflow would you recommend when working on a composite with several pictures?
Currently I use the script “Load files into stack”, then edit the base photo in Camera raw filter, then apply the settings to the other photos.
Is there a way to load files into stack while editing in ACR as a program as well?
Cheers ^ ^

[iamtheoceanr]

Great video. I had suspected this for some time. Good to see a proper comparison.

[Eigil_Skovgaard]

It's worth mentioning that when we double click on a smart object saved from ACR, the file opens in ACR with all adjustments present, i.e. the sliders are positioned exactly as they were just before the jump to Photoshop. Further, if adjustments are made in Photoshop to the initial smart object and those 10-20 adjustments are packed into a new smart object, a double click on the new smart object will open a psb file showing all layers and adjustments so far - AND a new double click on the original smart object will reopen the file in ACR with all initial ACR adjustments. So everything is preserved non destructively with smart objects. I think the ACR filter in Photoshop is predominantly an option to edit jpeg images that were loaded directly into Photoshop.

[josephcole]

Thanks Blake now i need to go re edit my whole catalog .... 🤣

[davidvandevelde]

thank you for the good information ! I don't get where are the Tiff files coming from? You open the raw files in ACR and then how do they convert into Tiff files?

[stephenwoodburn]

Great information, Blake. I am brewing a pot of coffee and about to watch both of your videos on ACR that you did for the Virtual Summit that Dave Cross put on.

[JOHNW]

Totally agree, at the end you were a little looking like Inspector Montalbano - Italian/Sicilian TV detective series, good relaxing stuff. My only fear is that IG and FB will take AI as the benchmark and algorithm accordingly, thus reducing art...

[refugioflores]

that was a very informative video i kinda knew some things, my editing process is i open the raw file and i edit the basics on it such as exposure and contrast then i open it as a smart object 16bit and pro RGB profile.. then on potoshop i add a camera raw filter to the smart object photo to work the color grading i like this way cuz i use more than one camera raw filter to get my final result do you thing this will be affecting my image quality? should i do both color grading and light correction from the beginning on the camera raw program? im kinda confused now . or i can go and work with the smart object and add the camera raw filters and once im done with the color correction i can save the settings and reopen the same raw file and apply those settings on the raw program?

[rainman]

Thanks for the ACR video. Very detailed. You mentioned the many ways of opening ACR and those were very insightful. However, as you know many of us use Lightroom then transfer to Photoshop. You didn't mention anything about how to open ACR - not the filter - in Photoshop from Lightroom without using the "open as smart object" option. Nor did not mention anything about opening ACR directly from Lightroom before heading over to Photoshop. Any comment on that would be greatly appreciated.