RAW Conversion

[ppp]

Am I best using Nikon Capture 4 or does CS3 Adobe RAW do as good or a better job of opening the RAW file.

If Capture is better do i then save as tiff and edit in CS3?

 

[chuckles]

Unless you want to clone anything out, I can't see any point in manipulating in CS...... NX capture does loads of things (except cloning) and it does it a lot quicker and mostly better!

You can set NX to xfer to any editor you like... (preferences I think) and it xfers it as a tiff....

Now, having re-read your original post..... Dunno whether Capture 4 is as good CS3 :shrug: Maybe easier to control the RAW settings. I find CS3 has a habit of guessing what it thinks is best. It wasn't even there when I took the shot! :thumbsdown: NX Capture is better though IMHO!

You still don't need to save it as a file in Capture 4 either... go to .. Image.... open in Photoshop (8bit) or Photoshop (16bit)

 

[ppp]

Sweet thanks mate, that answers it spot on, will start to use Capture more now and see how i go then. ta

 

[Jas]

Folks, following on from the original question, I am soon to receive a copy of NX and wanted to know if the end product is a tiff, does it reduce the image detail quality as in Raw to jpeg does? I will be using it with CS3 so I understand that CS3 will still read the Tiff files, but in elements 5 the output is a .psd which maintains most of the quality if you can leave as 16bit. What is the best output from NX if then using CS3 to keep as much detail as possible?

Any thoughts / knowledge appreciated.

 

[Grendel]

A TIFF is an uncompressed format so there is no loss of quality at all. Just look at the size of a TIFF compared to a JPG. A 30Mb TIFF saved as a JPG could easily go down to less than 1Mb with medium compression