merlin Posted February 1, 2005 Share Posted February 1, 2005 I am having some problem with my Nikon D 70 and when using it inphotoshop. From my understanding when I shoot in "raw mode" and openit up on photoshop it should be in 16bit mode. it's not, it's in 8bitmode. not only that, but I'm having trouble seeing a real differencein raw vs the jpeg fine. Does anyone have any suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cghubbell Posted February 1, 2005 Share Posted February 1, 2005 Are you sure the camera is in Raw mode? 8-bit is typically only for JPG. Do the file names end in a .NEF extension? Does the camera's top window show "RAW" or "Fine" in the lower left? The only other thing I can think of is if you are using some kind of a raw converter which sends an 8-bit image directly to the editor... There's no such thing as an 8-bit raw file, so something else has to be wrong here... Depending on your settings, the difference between JPG and RAW should be significant as the RAW image does not have sharpening, curves, saturation, etc. set. In some respects, it should look more dull... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjmurray Posted February 1, 2005 Share Posted February 1, 2005 The Nikon plug in that gets installed when you install Nikon's Picture Project only converts raw files to 8 bit. Erase it from photoshop's plug in folders and install Adobe's free plug-in ACR (Adobe Conversion Raw) from their site. Its much more robust and you can convert the raw files to 16 bit tiffs with lots of ajustment options. I went through the same confusion a couple weeks ago and got help here in this forum. If you don't eliminate the Nikon plugin, ACR won't work. I think you have to be using CS, however. Nikon has conversion software for $99, and I just heard of one called Bibble, that's supposed to be good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keith_bogle Posted February 3, 2005 Share Posted February 3, 2005 If you are using the Adobe Raw converter, when you open the RAW file in the lower left-hand corner you will see a drop-down menu. One for space and the other for depth. You can toggle the depth so that you image opens as either an 8 or 16 bit file. Hope it helps. -k Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom_burke3 Posted February 22, 2005 Share Posted February 22, 2005 Thanks for this info - I was about to post exactly the same question. Having removed the Nikon software (which is actually in the 'PlugIns/Adobe Photoshop Only/File Formats' directory) I'm back to the Potoshop CS software, which I think is actually much better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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