Tool reference

Four workspaces, one catalog, and edits you can return to.

• A first session that teaches the workflow
• Welcome to OmaRAW
• The workflow
• Finding your way
• Where things live
• Finding commands
• Using an agent

Choose the photos, decide where they live, then add them to your catalog.

• Decide where the photos should live
• Importing
• Browse and import in the Library
• Other ways in
• Auto-apply presets
• Sidecars
• Smart Previews
• Automatic subject tags

Choose a session folder and connect a supported camera over USB.

• Prepare a session before shooting
• Capture

Compare frames, add stars and flags, and narrow the library to a useful selection.

• Separate choosing from organising
• Library
• The layout
• Views
• Selecting photos
• Albums
• Transferring adjustments
• Finding photos
• The status bar
• Automatic tags
• Catalog maintenance and browsing speed
• Culling and rating
• Stacks
• Variants
• Duplicates and batch metadata

Group photos for a job without copying the originals.

• Albums collect references to your photographs
• Organising
• Albums
• Smart albums
• Quick Collection
• Files on disk
• Catalogs

Find supported subjects, correct detections and organise automatic collections.

• What automatic tags do
• Enable, scan and review
• What tags are saved and shared
• Know the detector's limits
• Automatic subject tags

Start with light, compare the result, and use Undo as you work.

• Work from the whole photo towards the details
• Develop
• The layout
• Working with sliders
• The first edit
• The viewer
• History, undo and snapshots
• Presets
• Settings across photos
• Soft proof
• Editing Smart Previews
• White balance, light and curves
• Exposure
• Shadows and highlights
• Contrast
• Tone mapping
• Film tone
• Highlight recovery
• Dehaze
• Tone equalizer
• Scopes and RAW clipping
• Curves
• Curves
• Tone regions
• Lab colour curves
• RGB levels

Set the frame and level the photograph without replacing the original.

• Correct geometry before judging the final framing
• Lens & composition
• Lens profile
• Lens corrections
• Orientation
• Defringe
• Transform
• Crop
• Automatic geometry and guides

Push colour in a direction you can see, then refine tone and saturation.

• Choose a colour tool by the change you need
• Colour grading
• Creative profile
• Colour wheels: Lift, Gamma, Gain and Offset
• Colour
• White balance
• RGB primaries
• Vibrance and saturation
• Adjust skin or another selected colour
• Image Match
• HSL by colour
• Lab colour
• Selective colour
• Advanced colour controls
• Camera profile
• Black and white
• LUT
• RGB primaries
• Negative conversion

Try a look while keeping useful points to return to.

• A saved look, an editing step and a snapshot are different
• Colour grading and finishing effects
• Print stock
• Grain
• Glow
• Halation
• Vignette

Match a reference with independent exposure, colour, tone and grain controls.

• Match a reference without losing the rest of the edit
• A reference-to-target workflow
• Controls that are easy to confuse
• Match a selection
• Full component and grain reference
• Image Match

Inspect sharpening and noise where the pixels are large enough to assess.

• Judge detail at the right scale
• The AI and automatic tools do different jobs
• Prepare
• Detail
• Sharpening
• Capture sharpening
• AI denoise
• Noise reduction
• Clarity
• Texture
• Chromatic aberration
• More tools

Transfer selected adjustment groups from an edited photo to the rest of a batch.

• Copy only the adjustments the other photos need
• Copy and paste
• Sync one selected batch
• Understand what travels

Choose the right selection method, understand coverage and make local colour, tone and detail corrections.

• What a mask actually does
• Choose a mask type
• A dependable first workflow
• The six folding sections
• What each local adjustment changes
• Display, bypass, reset and delete
• If the result is unexpected

Place light with a soft ellipse or a graduated transition.

• What this lesson demonstrates
• Radial
• Gradient
• Separate locals or one combined selection?
• Review and save

Paint a correction or trace a precise, editable outline.

• Brush, Pen and AI brush have different jobs
• Brush
• Pen
• Draw and close an outline
• Edit points and curves
• Feather and opacity
• Combine and keep editing

Sample a colour, inspect the selection, then adjust only that range.

• Select colour, then decide how to change it
• Give skin more colour without guessing
• Which colour control should I use?
• Understand width, softness and precise ranges
• Check the result rather than a target colour

Build a selection from shapes and ranges, then control its edge.

• Build the selection in layers
• Shape combination modes
• A practical combination: protect the face
• Luminance, Hue and Colour ranges
• Finished-mask edge refinement
• Copy a complete local
• Common problems

Select an object with points, a box or AI brush, then create editable paths.

• What AI object masking does
• Setup and local processing
• Select object: points and a box
• AI brush
• Paint for exact draft corrections
• Refine, invert and clear
• Create the editable mask
• Example: a local colour push
• What the film records

Use a greyscale image to restrict supported global adjustments.

• What an external mask does
• Prepare the mask image
• Import and connect
• Shared mask behaviour
• Troubleshooting
• Recording scope

Choose a repair tool, inspect the source and review the result.

• Choose the repair method by the problem
• A careful spot repair
• Retouch
• AI object removal
• Heal, clone, blur and fill
• Brush and polygon shapes
• Frequency separation
• Keeping the original after AI

Select a distraction, inspect generated pixels and save an editable repair.

• What removal changes
• Select the complete distraction
• Preview before applying
• Apply and continue
• Save rendered DNG is a separate choice
• Quality, source and performance limits
• What the film records

Understand the RAW preview, strength and separate editable DNG result.

• What AI denoise is for
• A complete working sequence
• What the comparison includes
• Sensor detection, ISO and GPU
• Disk space and versions
• Recording scope
• Local AI denoise
• Preview and apply
• Support and performance
• Photo versions
• Sources and licences

Choose a destination, a format and a size, then export the selected photos.

• Export a deliberate deliverable
• Output
• Format and size
• Naming and destination
• Finishing
• Resolution, alongside, metadata
• The queue
• Templates

Make a sheet for choosing photographs or prepare one photograph per page.

• A contact sheet and a print PDF are different outputs
• Print and contact sheets
• Contact sheet
• Print layout
• Soft proof

Find a command quickly and make the interface comfortable to use.

• Find the command or explanation at the point of use
• Preferences and colour
• Memory and cache
• Colour management
• Keyboard

Read the integrity report, keep backups, and understand the preview cache.

• What to check before changing storage settings
• Read an integrity result
• Back up the right things
• Disk cache and memory controls
• Preview, offline copy or backup?
• Offline originals
• Storage and recovery
• Smart Previews
• Build and use
• Storage and removal
• Limits and recovery

Let an agent inspect edits, organise an album or export the photos you chose.

• What the packaged skill enables
• Make a useful request
• Decisions you still make
• What the film verifies