Please can you tell me how to open RAW images in photoshop that are taken with my D70s Nikon. I have spent much time trying to do so and my photoshop CS will not recognize the format even though it is listed as an option in the "open with menu". Photoshop Help tells me that you can get plug ins but I cant find any leave alone one to do the above task - I find it all very confusing. I have now downloaded Picture Perfect which I have not used before and it is behaving very strangely - like opening images that were erased from the memory card some time ago - and will open only one of the RAW files on the memory card. I am also finding your web site difficiult as this is my second attempt to contact you the first being lost in the ether! Help would be much appreciated.
A Photoshop Raw file is a Photoshop PSD file without a header. The header
information must be entered when the file is imported into Photoshop. The
raw format is used import and export bitmap data using a very simple,
uncompressed binary format.
If you're using CS3, you'll need to update your version of ACR (it it's not already the latest). I expect there's an updated version that'll work with CS2 as well.
To view RAW files, you can use Bridge (which comes included with Photoshop)
"A raw file is a raw dump of the sensor data unaffected by any camera color conversion or tone curve. The advantage of Camera Raw is that YOU get to decide the white balance and the tone curve applied - not the camera.
"A raw capture looks REALLY WEIRD because all the response is flat with 1/2 the capture bits in the brightest stop. To make it look like what we are expecting a gamma curve must be applied." (Quotes excerpted from Photoshop Mac Forum adobe.com.)
• Editor's note: When a .NEF Raw file is opened in Adobe Camera Raw Plugin ACR, a gamma curve is applied by default, so it doesn't look so weird, but we can apply various curves while in ACR.
Adobe Camera Raw ACR Frequently Asked Questions FAQ adobe.com.
Adobe Camera Raw ACR supported cameras list Adobe Camera RAW Camera List adobe.com.
Adobe Camera RAW Plugin is included with Photoshop CS CS2 CS3 and automatically installs with Photoshop.
Information about how to open .nef .cr2 .crw files in Photoshop and use Adobe Camera RAW is included.
Be sure to update ACR Plugin with the latest version for compatibility issues:
Adobe Camera Raw 4.6 4.1 2.4 3.1 3.6 DOWNLOAD UPDATERS MAC adobe.com.
Adobe Camera Raw UPDATERS DOWNLOADS for WINDOWS adobe.com.
ACR 2.0 will not open .nef files from a D70s camera, but ACR 2.4 will. But ACR 2.4 -- the latest ACR Plugin for PS8/CS -- will not open Nikon D200 camera nef RAW files because the ACR 2.4 plugin was never written for the D200 RAW photos.
To open D200 .nef pictures, you will need CS2-PS9 with ACR 3.7 or later, so keep this in mind if your .nef or .cr2 files won't open with Adobe Camera Raw, you may need updaters or newer version of Photoshop.
To check which version of ACR is installed: Open Photoshop> Photoshop> About Plug-in> Camera Raw (will note the exact version).
Troubleshooting Why Nikon NEF PP opens instead of ACR:
If CS4 CS3 CS2 Adobe Camera Raw plugin will not open NEF RAW files -- Nikon NEF PP application opens instead -- the Nikon installer installs "Nikon NEF LE Plugin" aka "Nikon NEF Plugin" which overrides Adobe Camera RAW plugin in Photoshop.
In which case you will need to quit PS and go to Applications> Adobe Photoshop CS> Adobe Photoshop Only> File Formats AND remove the Nikon NEF LE Plugin from the folder if you want to open and use the free Adobe Camera RAW Plugin.
FREE DOWNLOADS Photoshop Nikon .nef RAW files included below.
I have several Nikon D200 and D70 .nef files below for downloading.
This "raw" concept (bringing 100 percent of the sensor data into Photoshop) has long been a part of Bruce Fraser's scanning workflow HutchColor/Bruce Fraser’s hutchcolor.com DOWNLOAD scanning (.pdf) guide. With this in mind, I would hope the Adobe Scanner RAW plug-in is about ready ;)
While the writer here used a Nikon D300 D200 and D70 to prepare this ACR online tutorial, Photoshop 10 9 8 7 CS3 CS2 CS1 was used in conjunction with Adobe Camera RAW 4.6, 2.4, 3.1, 3.6.
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THE CAMERA RAW WORKFLOW WORK FLOW:
Shoot camera Raw .NEF, open .NEF in Photoshop CS4 10 9 8 CS CS2 CS3, apply all the corrections within the Photoshop Adobe Camera Raw ACR interface - then - bring the file into Photoshop (in 16 bit)....
The photo opens in Photoshop's 16-bit RGB WorkFlow with only the one Raw-to-16-bit RGB conversion!
Camera Raw> 16-bit RGB keeps us true to the main goal of digital imaging:
CAPTURE as much color information as possible, and PRESERVE that color information throughout the editing processes:
16–bit Workflow gballard.net
Photoshop Adjustment Layers gballard.net
Photoshop Assign Versus Convert to Profile Tutorial gballard.net
Basic theory behind Photoshop color management www.gballard.net
Epson NO COLOR ADJUSTMENT printing workflow www.gballard.net
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Make sure you are using the Adobe Camera Raw plugin (Camera Raw.8bi). Not the one from Nikon (Nikon NEF Plugin.8bi). Do a search for the Nikon plugin and move it out of the plugins folder tree or rename it to something like Nikon NEF Plugin.8bi.dontuse.
Also check for .XMP sidecar files. Elements chokes on some entries in these files and gives erronious error messages.
Sir may i know what interface or connection cables are you using to upload or open your RAW pictures? Thats strange cause as far as i know Photoshop CS can open any image file. Did you try to look on the settings from the Photoshop?
thank you for using fixya
CHARCOIS
Convert the picture into JPEG and then try opening .
Want you to go through this link. this will help to converting the Raw to jpeg.
http://www.reasoft.com/rea-raw-convert.s...
Hope this will help... Kevin
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