Don’t Want To Save Changes In Browser, But…..

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Robert_Baron
Aug 26, 2004
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In PS CS, I have file browser open and I see a raw (Canon raw file) image I want a closer look at. I double click on the image and the processing window opens. It looks too dark so I increase the ‘exposure’ and click ok, so the image opens up in a ps window. I then decide I don’t want to fiddle with it now so I close the window without saving the changes. But in the file browser window the thumbnail retains the look of the increased ‘exposure’.

If I’ve explained this so someone can follow it, my question is Why, if I have not saved the changes I made (here, just increased ‘exposure’), is the changed image file being saved?

It’s not saving any cropping I may have done, just the increased ‘exposure’ setting.

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YrbkMgr
Aug 26, 2004
Of the thumbnail or the actual image?
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Rob_Keijzer
Aug 26, 2004
Robert,

You’re actually not saving anything to the file itself. You are saving the adjustments made with ACR in a seperate file.

Just reset them in ACR and you’re rid of them.

The RAW image is never overwritten with anything. It’s not even an image, rather I see it as a set of instructions.

The idea of this (I think) is that after you make tedious settings to the RAW file and later want to redo the whole thing, you don’t have to start from scratch with all the defects in the photo ( under/over exposure, chromatic abberation etc).

Rob
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Ian_Lyons
Aug 26, 2004
Just reset them in ACR and you’re rid of them.

Right click the image thumbnail and from the context menu choose Apply Camera Raw settings – a dialog opens. This dialog is all the available settings for camera raw. It can take two forms Basic or Advanced – basic will have ONE popup. If the dialog is the Basic form choose Camera Default from the popup and press Update – presto the thumbnail looks like crap again. If your dialog appears with the Advanced dialog then choose the popup labeled settings again pick Camera Default.

You can use the above method for one image or a selection.

You may wish to consider a book by Bruce Frasser called Real World Camera Raw for Photoshop CS. You can order it from Amazon.
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Robert_Baron
Aug 26, 2004
presto the thumbnail looks like crap again.<<

Now that’s something I can understand! Thanks.

btw, but on this subject: when the program is saving the ACR adjustments ‘in a separate file’, is it saving a whole image with the adjustments? If for example it is an 8MB raw file to begin with, is there another file of similar size being saved somewhere? The reason I ask is that I seem to be filling up my hard drive awfully fast and I’m looking for reasons (other than the obvious ones, of course).

book by Bruce Fraser called Real World Camera Raw for Photoshop CS<<

I had it on order from Amazon but they said it will be another month or so before it is available.

Thanks all,

–Bob
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Ian_Lyons
Aug 26, 2004
when the program is saving the ACR adjustments ‘in a separate file’, is it saving a whole image with the adjustments?

Nope! It saves the settings into the Camera Raw database (normally only a few MB’s) or XMP sidecar files (these are a few KBytes for each edited image and will be located in the same folder as the images). It’s you choice as to which is used! In Camera Raw you select the Preferences from the little flyout menu that’s to the right of the Setting popup. Your choices are: Camera Raw database or Sidecar XMP files. The latter is best if you intend to move the files from computer to computer or write them to a CD/DVD

The reason I ask is that I seem to be filling up my hard drive awfully fast and I’m looking for reasons (other than the obvious ones, of course).

It could be the File Browser cache. If you have lots of images and are generating High Quality previews then it can grow to a few hundred MB’s. On the box I’m using at the moment I have about 34GB or images and for these the File Browser cache files amount to about 330MB.
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Robert_Baron
Aug 26, 2004
Thanks! I’ll check the File Browser cache when I get home tonight.

(Now if I could just get the File Browser to save my custom workspace I’d be a relatively happy camper; I started an earlier thread on this but although several others reported the same problem no one seemed to know a fix.)

–Bob

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