231: Thou shall work with Camera RAW image files

Commentary Adobe Camera Raw is, in a word, brilliant. If you shoot (or receive a shot) as a JPEG or TIFF it is what it is. You can adjust it, color correct it, resize it within reason, but that’s basically it. Camera Raw is like having an old-style film negative because you can go back to the original to create new versions from scratch. A Camera Raw file contains all the raw data recorded by the camera at the point the picture was shot. Camera Raw files aren’t compressed, nor are they subjected to any in-camera processing, so you can do a whole lot more with them right at the point when you first open them up in Photoshop’s Camera Raw plug-in. You can reset temperature (or white balance), tint, exposure, brightness and contrast, clarity, and vibran....TS