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Double processing a RAW file

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Posted by Darren White on June 16, 2007 at 10:38 PM
I have heard mention of this in several peoples posts.

so bear with me and see if I have this right or am I missing something

after I work my image in ACR in CS3 it creates an XMP file as a copy to the orig....when I go back to open the orig file, it always opens the XMP file....

so how do I get the orig file to open again...I must be missing something here.....

thanks

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Posted by David Schwaegler on June 18, 2007 at 6:29 PM
Darren,

The XMP file just holds your settings -- exposure, contrast, etc. You are free to change those. To get back to the original settings in CS2 ACR you can pick "Camera Raw Defaults" from the Settings drop down box.

Sometimes I make a copy of my original RAW file so that I can maintain two independent settings.

Hope this helps.