
We'll start with raw files since they're the easiest to open. For now, let's learn how to open our images directly into Camera Raw. We're going to cover Camera Raw is great detail in its own series of tutorials. We can make any changes we like, any time we like, and we can even restore the original, unedited version at any time. And, Camera Raw is completely non-destructive, meaning that nothing we do to an image is permanent. This makes editing images in Camera Raw much more natural and intuitive. Unlike Photoshop which is used by people in virtually every creative profession, Camera Raw was built with photographers in mind, using a simple layout that matches a normal photo editing workflow from start to finish. But Camera Raw has grown to include support for JPEG and TIFF images as well. That is, images that were captured using your camera's raw image file format. These days, especially if you're a photographer, you're less likely to open your images into Photoshop itself (at least initially) and more likely to open them into Photoshop's image editing plugin, Camera Raw.Ĭamera Raw was originally designed to let us process raw files. Yet even though Photoshop is still the world's most powerful and popular image editor, times have changed. And we learned how to open images into Photoshop using Adobe Bridge.

We learned how to open images from within Photoshop itself. So far in this series on getting our images into Photoshop, we've learned how to set Photoshop as our default image editor.
