Adobe After Effects CS4 - Manual (Page 140)

134 USING AFTER EFFECTS CS4
Importing and managing footage items
Last updated 12/21/2009
Camera Raw settings
Save image states as snapshots in Camera Raw
You can record the state of an image at any time by creating a snapshot. Snapshots are stored renditions of an image
that contain the complete set of edits made up until the time the snapshot is created. By creating snapshots of an image
at various times during the editing process, you can easily compare the effects of the adjustments that you make. You
can also return to an earlier state if you want to use it at another time. Another benefit of snapshots is that you can
work from multiple versions of an image without having to duplicate the original.
Snapshots are created and managed using the Snapshots tab of the Camera Raw dialog box.
1 Click the New Snapshot button at the bottom of the Snapshots tab to create a snapshot.
2 Type a name in the New Snapshot dialog box and click OK.
The snapshot appears in the Snapshots tab list.
When working with snapshots, you can do any of the following:
• To rename a snapshot, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) it and choose Rename.
• Click a snapshot to change the current image settings to those of the selected snapshot. The image preview updates
accordingly.
• To update, or overwrite, an existing snapshot with the current image settings, right-click (Windows) or Control-
click (Mac
OS) the snapshot and choose Update With Current Settings.
• To undo changes made to a snapshot, click Cancel.
Important: Use caution when clicking Cancel to undo snapshot changes. All image adjustments made during the
current editing session are also lost.
• To delete a snapshot, select it and click the Trash button at the bottom of the tab. Or, right-click (Windows) or
Control-click (Mac OS) the snapshot and choose Delete.
Snapshots applied in Photoshop Lightroom appear and can be edited in the Camera Raw dialog box. Similarly,
snapshots created in Camera Raw appear and can be edited in Lightroom.
Save, reset, and load Camera Raw settings
You can reuse the adjustments that you’ve made to an image. You can save all of the current Camera Raw image
settings, or any subset of them, as a preset or as a new set of defaults. The default settings apply to a specific camera
model, a specific camera serial number, or a specific ISO setting, depending on the settings in the Default Image
Settings section of the Camera Raw preferences.
Presets appear by name in the Presets tab, in the Edit > Develop Settings menu in Adobe Bridge, in the context menu
for camera raw images in Adobe Bridge, and in the Apply Presets submenu of the Camera Raw Settings menu in the
Camera Raw dialog box. Presets are not listed in these locations if you don’t save them to the Camera Raw settings
folder. However, you can use the Load Settings command to browse for and apply settings saved elsewhere.
You can save and delete presets using the buttons at the bottom of the Presets tab.
❖ Click the Camera Raw Settings menu button and choose a command from the menu:
Save Settings Saves the current settings as a preset. Choose which settings to save in the preset, and then name and
save the preset.