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Well....its my first, but I can see its a popular problem...


Forgive me in advance.....I am a newbie and really trying to find my feet. I have a D90 and I am using Photoshop Elements 8 for mac.

I set the camera to "Raw (nef) and jpg "fine")

I have found that when the photos are downloaded to Bridge , the jpeg ones are visable and the nef ones arent.

I have set the advanced setting to convert nef to dng

All the raw images are listed as nef and are blank.

If i click on them they open up in elements and i can then see them, but in bridge i cannot.

Any ideas

Once again, appologies......i am trying to find it in my Scott Kelby book, but no joy so far
 
Firstly any particular reason why you are coverting to dng as E8 should be able to open the raw files in acr.
Talking of acr have you got the latest version installed.
 
Escy said:
Firstly any particular reason why you are coverting to dng as E8 should be able to open the raw files in acr.
Talking of acr have you got the latest version installed.
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Hi thanks for replying...

erm no not a reason of preference, just that I cannot view NEF files, so there was an option to convert all RAW to DNG to a thought it might sort the problem.

As it happens, if i send the NEF files to Camera Raw they are then visable when they return to Bridge as DNG files, but I am sure that it should be easier than the process I went through.
 
Somelier....

Hey, It worked...:clap:

Thanks a lot. I just updated Bridge and now they are downloading and viewable straight to Bridge.

Incidently....is there any advantage to keeping your Raw files as DNG if working with Elements8.
It seems to me that Scott Kilby thinks there is a marginal advantage incase the manufactuers change their software......but I wonder what others think.
I am happy to keep them as NEF or convert to DNG, but then I dont know much...

Anyway, thanks once again....this really is a great website....
 
DNG vs RAW has been covered a fair few times. I convert to DNG as the benefits to me are, smaller file sizes and no XMP sidecar file, all the metadata is embedded.
 
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