Adobe Showcases New Camera Raw Features That Will Bring To IPad

The Camera Raw feature is an old plugin that allows editing of RAW images in Photoshop. (photo: doc. unsplash)

JAKARTA - Adobe plans to bring the Camera Raw feature to the iPad version of Photoshop. The preview was revealed by senior product manager for Photoshop on iPad, Ryan Dumlao ahead of Adobe's MAX event a few weeks away.

In a short video, Dumalo shows how the feature works. He shows how Camera Raw can be used to edit RAW and DNG photos directly imported from the camera.

Users can use Fujifilm or ProRAW cameras from iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro. Since RAW files are not compressed or processed like other file formats, the user will have complete control over the final product.

Compiled from The Verge, Wednesday, October 13th, the Camera Raw feature is an old plugin that allows advanced editing of RAW images in Photoshop, and it's also the technical foundation of Lightroom's processing engine.

Dumlao also shows how users can edit various exposure settings and parameters in Photoshop, including importing RAW files as smart objects for non-destructive editing that can be brought to the desktop version.

In his demo, Dumlao uses Photoshop's features to perform tasks such as removing tree branches with Apple Pencil and adjusting the color of certain strings in his photos. Choose it easily and does not require much precision. Deleting a branch only removes it in a new layer, so it can be added back or adjusted again later.

Seeing that the rope in the photo was too orange, Dumlao selected it and corrected the color without changing the bright orange of the Japanese-style torii gate itself. Users can adjust the saturation of certain colors, change the exposure, add textures, and more.

Now that many photographers use Lightroom as their primary editing tool, adding Camera Raw to Photoshop for iPad will expand photo editing capabilities for iPad owners who use Photoshop as a large part of their workflow. Adobe has not announced exactly when the feature will be released globally, they just said that this feature will be coming soon.