ACR - SnapShot

[Black Pearl]

You may all be doing this already and I may be the only one who didn't know this was possible but just in case:

 

When you open a RAW file in Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) - thats the RAW converter in Photoshop - and start adjusting your image you can create SnapShots in the same way you can in the main programme within the History Panel. I found this out in another forum I visit and had to do a quick search (YouTube came to the rescue - see below) to find out how. It turns out to be dead simple and frankly astonishingly clever. You can open a RAW file ACR, make a few adjustments and save the adjustments (not a new file so you're not eating up your hard drive) make a few more and save that edit too. Have a look at the video, I honestly didn't know you could do that and it will save me vast amounts of disk space as I tend to fiddle with effects/versions to see what final image I want.

 

[ChrisLumix]

I'd always understood that this was a feature of Lightroom and Aperture, so I suppose it's no great surprise to me that it exists for ACR too. Nifty though, the way it saves a set of adjustments (like the later iPhoto, though that's a far less capable app) so that your disk doesn't fill up with full size file edits.