- [Voiceover] One of the best reasons to shoot raw is
because you can fix a lot of mistakes.
So here's one where I don't feel like
I exposed it very well.
I think I overexposed a bit on this panorama.
This is the one where we were shooting
near the Abraham Lincoln Memorial,
and I was more focused on being able to see Abe inside
than I was the surrounding area.
I'm going to adjust that along with other adjustments
and at the same time show you another way
to interact with raw
and apply the settings to all the images.
So what I can do here is take all of the images
that are going to make up my panorama
and if you recall, we had five bracketed images
and four camera positions, so a total of 20,
so that's my first four rows.
I've selected the first image
and I'll just go down and select the last image
after four rows.
I can even confirm that I've selected 20
down here in the lower left just to make sure
that I didn't forget something.
From here, I can go File, Open,
and it asks me, "Are you sure you want to open 20 files?"
and the answer is yes.
So now we see a little bit of a different look
in Adobe Camera Raw where it shows us
the film strip on the left.
Let's just start with what I was referring to as
where I think I didn't do a very good job.
If I zoom in to the Washington monument over there,
you can see that it's really hard to see.
It's over-exposed.
So in Camera Raw, we can recover some of that.
So I'm just going to go down here to the Exposure
and go minus one.
Then we'll bring the highlights down as well
to bring it back into view.
I'm going back to minus 1.5.
That really seems to do the trick, minus 20,
and while we're at it, let's bring up the shadows, too.
As we did before, reduce blacks slightly,
and since this is a having fun panorama,
we'll increase the clarity and the vibrance a little bit.
As usual, I want to add some noise reduction
using very kind of generalized settings, again,
because we're applying it to all.
I'm going to turn off sharpening for this step.
Going back over to my lens correction,
the very important Chromatic Aberration,
in fact let's zoom into the monument a little bit more,
check that box and see if we see a difference.
I can see a little bit of fringing is removed,
adding a little bit more defringe.
Okay.
So I've done that, fit to view,
for my most under-exposed image,
let's go ahead and sync those settings
with all of the images right here.
So I can click this little fly out menu
above the film strip,
choose sync settings,
and we'll go ahead and apply all.
Another setting that I need to synchronize
is the color temperate and tint,
because I had chosen the automatic white balance
on the camera,
and that's okay as long as you intend to
go ahead and do this in a camera raw.
What I like to do is take one of the better-exposed images,
so that's kind of an easy way to choose
a nice white balance for a situation,
I like to choose one of the sort of middle-exposed images
in my series and go ahead and use
the automatic white balance to see
what Adobe Camera Raw comes up with
for its white balance,
or I can choose my favorite one
from what the camera came up with,
or I can make my own,
but I think the 7500 is a good temperature.
It's kind of appropriate for a later evening shot
like the one we have.
So let's apply it to all the images.
I can just choose any one of them,
cmd + A to select all,
and then I just go ahead and key in the number,
and we thought we would use 7526,
7524 sounds fine as well.
So now that's applied to all the images,
I can hit cmd + D to deselect,
and then just click one by one
just to make sure that that worked.
Select all again, and I'll go ahead
and save these images right from here.
So instead of going to the other Adobe Bridge again,
we'll just go ahead and choose our settings here.
Some of our standard options here,
the destination, where I have set is fine,
I'll leave that up to you,
we can rename the file if we want to,
let's go ahead and take that opportunity
and go MemorialSteps, we'll make it a two digit number,
starting with a one, we'll go .jpeg again,
get that quality up to maximum,
actually we'll go the maximum maximum of 12.
Color space is fine.
We'll use an 8-Bit for channel bit depth,
and we do not want to resize nor sharpen.
Once I click save, it's going to save
all of those images with all of the raw settings
that we've chosen so that we can combine those
into our panorama.