Queries on Photoshop - Opening of Raw files in Bridge CS3

[PhotoBug]

Hi guys,

Need your advice. When I try to open the Raw file (.NEF, taken with a D300) for the first time in Bridge CS3, the photo, shown in the form of thumbnail, seems to "change". It seems to have some values adjusted, normally, it became darker and the white balance adjusted. How could this happened? Could Photoshop has a default setting and the all Raw file, prior to access, would be "adjusted" to this default setting. If so, could this process be eliminated. I prefer my photos as it is and process from that onwards.

Thanks very much.

Cheers.

[madmacs]

each raw file usually has an embedded jpeg preview image. when you first load the raw file in, photoshop or whatever software will first show that embedded jpeg image as the thumbnail. it then rebuilds the thumbnail image from the raw data any picture control or scene control applied. hence the color change you see.

if you prefer the effect from the picture control, what you can do is use capture nx to process the NEF into a TIFF file and work with the TIFF file in photoshop.

[PhotoBug]

each raw file usually has an embedded jpeg preview image. when you first load the raw file in, photoshop or whatever software will first show that embedded jpeg image as the thumbnail. it then rebuilds the thumbnail image from the raw data any picture control or scene control applied. hence the color change you see.

if you prefer the effect from the picture control, what you can do is use capture nx to process the NEF into a TIFF file and work with the TIFF file in photoshop.

Thanks. Yeah, the pic won't change if it is opened with Capture NX. Well, would love to use the Capture NX that came with my D300 purchase but its processing is far too slow, even with a 4M Ram iMac. :cry:

[madmacs]

Thanks. Yeah, the pic won't change if it is opened with Capture NX. Well, would love to use the Capture NX that came with my D300 purchase but its processing is far too slow, even with a 4M Ram iMac. :cry:

4meg ram??? 4gig right? should be quite decent already. just that you might not be able to run large programs like capture nx and photoshop at the same time.

you need to determine which workflow works for you. maybe what you can do is:

1. use image capture to copy photos from cf or sd to some folder on your mac.

2. launch capture nx to convert the NEF to TIFF. maybe upgrade to capture nx2. its faster.

3. quit capture nx and launch bridge to batch process the TIFF files.