{"id":60661,"date":"2024-11-01T17:22:39","date_gmt":"2024-11-02T00:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/photoshopcafe.com\/?p=60661"},"modified":"2024-11-01T17:22:39","modified_gmt":"2024-11-02T00:22:39","slug":"adobe-camera-raw-17-in-photoshop-2025-new-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/photoshopcafe.com\/adobe-camera-raw-17-in-photoshop-2025-new-features\/","title":{"rendered":"Adobe Camera RAW 17 in Photoshop 2025 new Features"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Features In Adobe Camera RAW 17 \/ Photoshop 2025<\/h2>\n

Lets have a look at the new features in ACR 2025 aka ACR 17. Camera Raw comes with Photoshop and is accessablw either through Bridge or as a filter in Lightroom. There is a slight difference between the 2 and we will see what that is in a sec. Other thing, Lightroom Classic uses ACR as its processing engine. In this case, we have a couple of beta features in ACR that haven’t found their way into lightroom yet.<\/p>\n

How to update Camera RAW<\/h2>\n

Let’s update to the latest version.<\/p>\n

Launch the Creative Cloud app.<\/p>\n

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To update ACR, you update Photoshop. The latest version is part of the Photoshop installation.<\/p>\n

When you update Photoshop, its a good idea to NOT remove old versions. I would make sure everything works first, and then uninstall the old version after a week or 2 when you are sure you don’t need it any more. Yes, you can have multiple versions installed at one.<\/p>\n

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You can Launch ACR as. filter in Photoshop. Filer>Camera Raw filter<\/p>\n

But notice the crop tool and geometry are missing. So are the image sizing options at the bottom.
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If you want to run the “full” version of Camera Raw, either open a raw file from File open.. or you can launch a jpg, RAW, Tiff or png from Adobe Bridge. Right-Click\u00a0 and choose Open in ACR.<\/p>\n

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Enabling the Beta Features<\/h2>\n

Some of the new features are turned off, lets enable them.<\/p>\n

Launch the full ACR. Click on the gear in the top Right.<\/p>\n

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Go to Technology Previews>Turn on New features from Technology Previews<\/p>\n

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Denoise<\/h2>\n

The ai denoise may be the best feature in ACR.<\/p>\n

Here is an image at 25,000 ISO and its very noisy (grainy).<\/p>\n

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In the detail tab there is a Denoise option.<\/p>\n

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It removes the noise really well. Whats new about this and\u00a0 Raw Detail and Super Resolution, they are non destructive and a new file isn’t created any more. They work on the original file.<\/p>\n

Its still limited support for file types, but more RAW formats are included now including Apple Pro Raw (iPhone) and google Pixel raw.<\/p>\n

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Adaptive Profiles<\/h2>\n

The new Adaptive profiles are great, especially for HDR images. This is an unedited, but merged HDR image.<\/p>\n

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Here you can see its using the default Adobe Color.<\/p>\n

Change it to adaptive.<\/p>\n

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Immediately, the image looks better, this is before we have applied any adjustments yet.<\/p>\n

Profiles arwe appl;ied before image adjustments, more about ACR \/ Lightroom Profiles here<\/a><\/p>\n

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Generative Expand<\/h2>\n

Normally, when you straighten a photo, it crops in to the photo and you lose some content around the edges.<\/p>\n

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If you turn on Enable Expand..<\/p>\n

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Now you can outcrop<\/p>\n

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Click on Generative Expand<\/p>\n

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All the transparent areas a filled with generated content. Now you can straighter or an image without losing and of the content.<\/p>\n

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Lets try it on a larger image. This is a stitched panorama.<\/p>\n

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As you can see, it can generate large areas with ai.\u00a0 Be careful with this though, because the generated pixels are lower resolution, so this doesn’t match too well on a large image. You can see the grain mismatch around the edges. Hopefully this improves in the future.<\/p>\n

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Extending an image. We are adding more to the left and top of this image.<\/p>\n

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In this case, it looks pretty good. It helps when the extended area is smaller and less detailed.<\/p>\n

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Generative Remove<\/h2>\n

Gen Remove isn’t brand new in ACR, but it got some updates.<\/p>\n

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Turn the options on, like before<\/p>\n

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Now you can circle select<\/p>\n

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It will detect the object<\/p>\n

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And it nicely removes the back sign.<\/p>\n

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For the front one, we will use the other new feature, scribble select<\/p>\n

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It detects it nicely<\/p>\n

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And ai removes it.<\/p>\n

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You have 3 variations to choose from. You can see in the video.<\/p>\n

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Ok, thats our ACR updates this time around. There are also some new Adaptive Presets and a couple of other little things.<\/p>\n

Hopefully you found this tutorial useful<\/p>\n

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