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Sharpening, Luminance Noise Reduction and Color Noise Reduction settings. The problem with saving too many attributes is that although the global settings may have worked great for one image, there is no knowing if they will work as effectively on all other images. It is therefore a good idea to break your saved presets down into smaller chunks.

Copying and synchronizing settings

If you have a multiple selection of photos in the Camera Raw dialog, you can apply synchronized Camera Raw adjustments to all the selected images at once. For example, you can -click or -click to make an image selection via the Filmstrip, or click on the Select All button to select all images. Once you have done this any adjustments you make to the most selected photo are simultaneously updated to all the other pictures too. Alternatively, if you make adjustments to a single image, then include other images in the Filmstrip selection and click on the Synchronize… button, this pops the Synchronize dialog shown in Figure 3.78 . Here you can select the specific settings you wish to synchronize and click OK. The Camera Raw settings will now synchronize to the currently selected image. You can also copy and paste the Camera Raw settings via Bridge. Select an image and choose Edit Develop Settings Copy Camera Raw Settings ( ). Then select the image or images you wish to paste the settings to and choose Edit Develop Settings Paste Camera Raw Settings ( ).

Figure 3.79.

In this example, I made a selection of images via the Filmstrip and clicked the Synchronize… button, which opened the dialog shown in Figure 3.78 .

Figure 3.78 When the Synchronize dialog box appears you can select a preset range of settings to synchronize with, or make your own custom selection of settings to synchronize the currently selected images.

Working with Snapshots

As you work in Camera Raw you can now save favorite Camera Raw settings as snapshots via the Snapshots panel that is shown in the following steps examples. The ability to save snapshots means that you are not limited to applying only one type of Camera Raw rendering to an image. By using snapshots you can easily store multiple renderings within the image file's metadata with minimal overhead, since the Camera Raw snapshots you save will only occupy a very small amount of file space.

Lightroom snapshots

Snapshots can be created via Lightroom and as long as you have saved and updated the metadata to the file, these can be read by Camera Raw. Similarly, snapshots applied in Camera Raw can also be read in Lightroom. The only limiting factor is whether the Develop settings are compatible between your current version of Camera Raw and Lightroom.

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The Snapshots panel can be used to store different versions of Camera Raw settings that have been applied to an individual image. When you visit this panel you may already see a snapshot called Import, which will be the setting that was first applied to the photo at the time it was imported. What you can do here is make adjustments to the photo using the usual Camera Raw controls and use this panel to create new saved snapshots. For example, here I adjusted the Camera Raw settings to produce an optimum adjustment for the foreground and rocks in the middle distance. I then clicked on the Add New Snapshot button (circled) to save this setting as a new snapshot called Optimize foreground.

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I then adjusted the Camera Raw settings, but this time to create an optimum adjustment for the sky and clouds, and saved this as another new snapshot called Optimize sky.

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I opened the Camera Raw adjusted image as a Smart Object (see page 158) and used the Layers panel contextual menu to select ‘New Smart Object via copy’. I was then able to use the quick select tool to create a selection of the sky and from that make a layer mask. Finally, I was able to double-click the Smart Object layers and apply the foreground snapshot for the lower layer and the sky snapshot for the upper layer to produce the final version shown here.

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