When you're done with the photo, you can click Open Image, which will send the edited photo to Photoshop Elements with all those edits already applied. Or, if you did everything you needed in Camera Raw and don't want to do any additional editing in Photoshop, you can click Done. All of your edits save automatically to an XML file in the same folder as the photo. The cool thing is that you've made lossless edits to the RAW file--the RAW file itself is unchanged, but anytime you open the image in Photoshop Elements, it will read the edits you made in Camera Raw from the XML file and apply them automatically. To undo any of the edits, just open the photo in Camera Raw again.

If you have a different photo editor, its RAW editor should work much the same. The full version of Photoshop (with a "CS" in its title) uses a slightly different version of , packed with a lot of additional features.

If you use Corel PaintShop Pro, its Camera RAW Lab looks like .