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Xmp files and the Raw Spot Removal Tool in Adobe Camera Raw (ACR)

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Have you ever looked at your Raw images using Windows Explorer and wondered where those extra files came from, they seem to have just appeared by magic. They are Xmp files and can be more useful than we first think. Here we explain what they are and look at the parameters we are given within Photoshop to store them. Do we want these files retained as a side car file or kept in the Raw Database? We know, it all sounds like double dutch doesn't it, what does it all mean? Well Xmp files are those files that store the changes you have made to your Raw files and they are very useful. Here we try to explain not only what they are, but suggest the best way to store them via our preference settings.

A natural follow on to what we are talking about above is to make use of the Raw tools like the spot removal tool to remove nasty spots from the sky of a shot like this. Taken with a wide angle lens and stopped right down the those usual feint and tiny dust circles are now not so feint, or tiny, or few. They are caused by dust on the chip of our camera and they are all made worse by wide angle lenses and small apertures. In this video we look at dealing with them totally in ACR using the Spot Removal Tool. As usual we follow through and complete the rest of the work on this image too all in Adobe Camera Raw

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