Adobe Camera RAW 8.7 question

Posted on January 25, 2015 by Oleg Volk

Older versions of Camera Raw had a setting for changing midtone brightness (gamma) during the image import. I don’t see a way to do that now other than with curves — but curves do not work with gradations or paintbrush adjustment tools. Does anyone know the workaround for affecting just the midtone brightness?

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3 Responses to Adobe Camera RAW 8.7 question

  1. Paul Koning says:
    January 26, 2015 at 4:23 pm

    Does painting on an adjustment layer do what you’re looking for?

    • Oleg Volk says:
      January 26, 2015 at 4:37 pm

      In Photoshop, yes — but I want this to happen before the import.

      • Paul Koning says:
        January 30, 2015 at 10:35 am

        I missed that. I thought the whole point of raw is that you import exactly what the camera sensor saw, and do all tweaking afterwards. Adjusting during import seems to make the thing more like parboiled, not raw.

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