If your not shooting a million shots in one session you might consider shooting RAW if your not doing so already. RAW offers you the equivalent of film based cameras “negative”. RAW has so many advantages over shooting just JPG, and just one disadvantage. I might modify that statement and replace “disadvantage” with the word “inconvenience”.

So in this article for those who are not familiar with shooting RAW, I’m going to show you how to get the correct exposure for your shot when converting the RAW file to JPG using the Adobe’s RAW dialogue box in PS CS2.

There are many RAW converters on the market, some better than others. I prefer to use Adobe’s, and that’s what I’m using in this article. If you have Adobe, you can follow along with me here.

1. Exposure

2. Shadows

First we’ll deal with getting the correct exposure.

1. Hold down the ALT key, and move the the slider to the right until noise just starts to appear in the dialogue window.

2. Now move the slider back to the left until the noise just disappers. STOP.

Now the Shadows

Hold the ALT and slide the slider left. When all the noise disappears, STOP.

Your DONE!

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