What's in the panel
The filter is organised into sections that you open as needed:
- Light: exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, whites and blacks.
- Color: white balance (temperature and tint), vibrance and saturation.
- Effects: texture, clarity, dehaze, vignetting and grain.
- Curve: a tone curve split into highlights, lights, darks and shadows.
- Color Mixer: hue, saturation and luminance for each colour range.
- Color Grading: separate tints for shadows, midtones and highlights.
- Detail: sharpening, plus luminance and colour noise reduction.
Two ways to use it
On a photo you already have open. Select the layer and choose Filter › Camera Raw Filter. It works on JPEGs, PNGs and layers inside a PSD. Convert the layer to a Smart Object first and the filter stays editable: double-click it later to change the settings.
On a raw file. Drop a raw file onto the editor and it opens through the same controls. DNG, Canon CR2, Nikon NEF, Sony ARW, Panasonic RW2 and Pentax PEF are supported. Canon CR3 is not supported yet, and Olympus ORF and Fujifilm RAF work only when uncompressed.
A sensible order to work in
- Fix white balance first; every later judgement depends on it.
- Set exposure, then pull highlights down and lift shadows.
- Add contrast with the curve when you want control over where it lands.
- Leave sharpening and noise reduction until last, zoomed to 100%.
Where it stops
This is a single-image filter. It doesn't read .xmp sidecar files, there is no local masking inside the dialog, and PSCraft has no photo library or batch sync. It complements a raw workflow; it doesn't replace Lightroom.