Fixing an image’s grey balance is like building a strong foundation for a house-everything depends on it. If your image has any grey, in it you can do a quick colour balance using the White Balance Tool (eye-dropper in the top left corner) and click on a grey area to adjust the grey balance.
There is also the Auto option-it may not fix every image, but it is often a great start. As well, there are adjustment tools available in Camera Raw that are not in Photoshop, such as lens vignetting, noise reduction during sharpening, advanced tone curves, and the ability to adjust images’ vibrancy rather than just their saturation. The great thing about using Camera Raw as opposed to opening an image directly into Photoshop is that you have a one-stop-apply-everything-in-one-move approach instead of making multiple hits on an image-the former approach translates into less destruction and image degradation. Not only that, but the correction was faster and more intuitive. When I compare the images, one corrected in Camera Raw and the other in Photoshop, I see a few distinct differences: the amount of detail in the darker areas, the overall neutrality, the realism of the ski colour and the mountains, and the amount of pop are much improved in the Camera Raw correction. To correct this using the tools in Photoshop would have taken me significantly longer and would not have turned out as well. Look at the image to the right, taken through a green-tinted window.
I know, JPEG is not a raw format, but having the options and the power of this import filter is huge. There are a few areas in this upgrade that make me go “wow,” and one of them is the option to open a RGB, jpeg, or tiff directly into Adobe Camera Raw. The main enhancements and changes are a significant interface update (which takes a bit of time to get used to), support for Intel Macs (Universal Binary), big changes to the Bridge, improvements to Camera Raw, and other selection and colour correction tool enhancements. I do not recommend using this release for production work, but it is a great way to test some of the new features. I have been test-driving the new release and have seen some very exciting changes.
Photoshop CS3 will be available soon, but before its release, you can download a relatively stable beta version from.
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