Just recently I’ve found that any raw images that I open in Camera Raw for preparation to bring into Photoshop appear almost completely black. The histogram in the corner reflects this, but not the one embedded into the curve editor. Messing with some clipping indicators reveals that there is a tiny bit of information still there, but it’s all…

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I’m trying to create an effect similar to the attached image as a ‘magic’ effect coming from the hands of an actor in some tracked footage. More ‘light’ or ‘energy’ based effects as we’re all used to seeing in films these days are simple enough but this has more of a ‘paint-like’ quality to it. I’m doing some experimentation to try and find… Read more