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CS camera raw help!

SamSam Registered Users Posts: 7,419 Major grins
edited March 30, 2005 in Finishing School
I need your help on this one. I have some Nikon raw files, They have an exstention of .nef. I am using Photoshop CS and it won't open them. I have checked the manual, and online help without any answer. All I can find says it will open many camera Raw files. This is from a Nikon 70 D. My co-worker )owner of said files) can open his files in Elements 3. Why not in CS. Any body have an answer for this?

I have to (Ok I don't have to) do some post processing for him.

Sam
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    jwearjwear Registered Users Posts: 8,006 Major grins
    edited March 25, 2005
    download Sam
    Sam wrote:
    I need your help on this one. I have some Nikon raw files, They have an exstention of .nef. I am using Photoshop CS and it won't open them. I have checked the manual, and online help without any answer. All I can find says it will open many camera Raw files. This is from a Nikon 70 D. My co-worker )owner of said files) can open his files in Elements 3. Why not in CS. Any body have an answer for this?

    I have to (Ok I don't have to) do some post processing for him.

    Sam
    go to the web site and download drivers for raw [and it's D70rolleyes1.gif ] the first elem 3 did not support raw it is for each camera sort of Jeff may have spoke out of turn I just read this http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?postid=82017#post82017 so there must be some dif. in cs and elem. 3 I did not think so I had to look a few times to get the raw for 3 so ???? With your exper. i should have known you would have tried this already sorry
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    wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited March 26, 2005
    Check out the third paragraph, see if that helps. Google is your friend!
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    jwearjwear Registered Users Posts: 8,006 Major grins
    edited March 26, 2005
    wxwax wrote:
    Check out the third paragraph, see if that helps. Google is your friend!
    thanks wax i never got raw to work on my other computer thumb.gif works now Jeff
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    camblercambler Registered Users Posts: 277 Major grins
    edited March 30, 2005
    Might I also suggest that you look into Adobe's DNG format and the free converter?

    You can convert all of your NEF files to DNG, which the browser handles much better (and faster). I've found no functional difference in Photoshop. If you're doing your RAW editing in Photoshop (and not Nikon's app), I think you'll be pleased.

    My workflow has me insert my CF card into my computer, run the DNG converter to take the NEF's off of the card and place them in my working directory as DNG, and then go to town on the DNG's (after burning a backup to DVD, of course).

    www.adobe.com, look at photoshop downloads. Get the latest ZIP. The converter is a single executable, and there's also a new RAW file format plug-in that you'll want to drop in your plug-ins directory over the old one.

    Couldn't be simpler.
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