From the course: Mastering Adobe Camera Raw

One technology, many ways to access

From the course: Mastering Adobe Camera Raw

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One technology, many ways to access

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- The Adobe Camera Raw engine is the root of all the photographic processing that Adobe does. Whether you're accessing it through tools, like Photoshop, the consumer Photoshop Elements, under the hood, it's using Camera Raw. In fact, both Lightroom and Lightroom Classic as well as applications like Bridge and After Effects also use Camera Raw. When there's an update to Camera Raw, it generally unlocks features in all of these other applications, and it really just comes down to the user interface. The sliders might be in a slightly different place inside of Lightroom, but they're still the same controls, and you can access them when you launch Camera Raw, Photoshop, or Bridge. As such, taking the time to learn about each of these controls is really going to unlock some very powerful tools, no matter where you like to work. And there are a few features that are pretty hidden. For example, when you launch Camera Raw from Photoshop or Bridge, it'll actually show you more controls than Lightroom makes visible, or even Lightroom Classic. This'll give you advanced options for creating presets as well as refining image details. Now, that's not to say that you can use one tool over the other in all cases. It really comes down to your personal preference and your workflow. But in this course, we're going to explore the many different ways to see this technology. For the most part, I'm going to work with Photoshop and Bridge, but if you're using Lightroom or Lightroom Classic, you'll still have these same tools for the most part. In this section of the course, I'm going to walk you through the many different options that you have on how to find Camera Raw. So let's take a look at some of the most popular Adobe apps, and I'll show you how to access Camera Raw.

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