Camera RAW: The Easy To Use Parametric Curve

Both Camera RAW and Lightroom have lots of horsepower to optimize RAW files

Russ Burden

Updated July 27, 2016

Although different in looks on the outside, the engines that drive exposure, color, sharpening, noise reduction, and other enhancements are identical

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Originally Published September 22, 2014

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