vicky_leon Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 Hi, I've just taken a few test shots with my new D300. I have transfered them to mycomputer but am unable to open them in Bridge, Camera RAW or Photoshop CS2. Am I doing something wrong? It keeps saying "could not complete request becauseit is not the right kind of document". Help! Vicky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elliot1 Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 You will need to upgrade to CS3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vicky_leon Posted February 15, 2008 Author Share Posted February 15, 2008 Seriously? Ahhh.... How do I get around the fact that I have a shoot tomorrow morning and need to edit the images in CS2? Is there any way of it working in CS2? Is it something to do with the images not being 8bit? Vicky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjaraujo Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 Vicky, I suppose you can download the latest version of DNG converter from Adobe, wich will transform your D300 .NEF files into .DNG files, wich are also RAW files. The .DNG files can be read by ACR in CS2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickwhite Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 You do not 'need' to upgrade PS; just download the FREE adobe DNG converter and use that to convert the NEF files to DNG - they will then open in CS2/Bridge. http://www.adobe.com/products/dng/ To download you will need to download the combined ACR 4.3 + DNG package - but do not install the ACR plug-in (that is the CS3 version) - just retain the DNG converter which will work with ACR versions 2.3 or higher, which you should already have installed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teng.xiong Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 Or instead of shooting RAW, you can shoot it in TIFF format. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joseph_wisniewski Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 How many raw conversions are you going to do? My first suggestion would be to download Nikon Capture NX from the Nikon support site, and register it using the code that came with your D300. The user interface is really horrid, the workflow awful, but the raw conversions are superior to CS2 with ACR3 (based on my experiences with D2X and D200 files) and to CS3 with ACR4 (based on my experiences with D2X, D3, and D300 files). If you want to see bad looking raw conversion, just go ahead and try the DuNG converter. It doesn't tell CS2/ACR3 what it needs to know to do a decent job on a D300 file, and D3 files go totally south. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tri-x1 Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 Didn't you get NX with your camera? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
photo5 Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 Wayne said it, I would open the NEF files from your D300 in Capture NX, you should have received a free license with your D300, and then use the "open with" menu item to open them in CS2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan_beauvais Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 Or, shoot in jpg format. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris hughes Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 Capture NX sucks. It may be a good RAW converter once it gets the images open but it's DEAD SLOW to the point of being practically unusable if you're going to process more than a half dozen images or so. It's all about CS3 IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
berg_na Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 I completely disagree with the suggestion that DNG conversion somehow degrades the image quality. DNG conversion works perfectly fine with the D300 NEF files and is fully compatible with CS2 with the correct ACR plug-in as mentioned above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nsfbr Posted February 16, 2008 Share Posted February 16, 2008 I have to counter the criticisms of Capture NX having either a bad interface or being slow. Its interface is DIFFERENT that many are used to, but it is actually quite intuitive once you get used to it. No, it isn't Photoshop, but it isn't trying to be. NX is simply the best way to develop RAW images from a Nikon. Period. Photoshop is an entirely different animal. So, for me, it is Shoot in RAW, process in NX, save and save a copy as a HQ jpeg to make final tweaks in Photoshop, print. If I was doing a lot of "Photoshopping" this would not be my flow, but for someone who simply wants to process photographs, I think it is best. Finally, I have no idea about the relative speed of NX to CS2 or CS3 on a PC or Mac, but NX on my Mac compared to CS (I never bothered to upgrade since I don't use it much, see above) flies. This is especially true of batch processing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vicky_leon Posted February 17, 2008 Author Share Posted February 17, 2008 I downloaded the adobe DNG converter and tried to use that to convert the NEF files to DNG but the following message came up: "There was an error parsing the file" What am I doing wrong? Vicky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickwhite Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 Vicky, is that on all the files you are converting or just the odd one? The only time I have had that it was due I think to a NEF file having been corrupted before trying to convert. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vicky_leon Posted February 17, 2008 Author Share Posted February 17, 2008 I have 562 NEF files from one shoot and can't convert any of them Vicky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarah_pilapil Posted March 9, 2008 Share Posted March 9, 2008 I hope this helps, I was having the same problem with my 40D, DNG converter, and photoshop CS2. I finally downloaded the CS3 version DNG converter and had no problems. All the converted files work with CS2 Bridge, Photoshop and the photoshop raw image editor!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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