Opening *.NEF in Photoshop CS2 from Nikon Capture 4.3

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xtx99
Jul 11, 2005
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I’m a newbie and my workflow for converting RAW (.NEF) files from my D70 involves opening and editing my files first in Nikon Capture 4.3 and then transferring them over to Adobe Photoshop CS2 for final cropping, sizing and editing. I’m not yet very comfortable doing ALL my work in Photoshop CS2 and like how my shots intially look when I open them up in Nikon Capture. The Nikon Raw Plug-in of course replaced the Camera Raw Plug-in when I installed Nikon Capture on my computer. The "Options" setting in Nikon Capture is set for "Transfers 16 bit data when possible" with regard to the "open with Photoshop Quick Tools button."
For some reason however, transferring the shot from Nikon Capture to Photoshop CS2 for final editing transfers the shot in 8 bit mode instead of 16 bits. I’d prefer to continue working in Photoshop with the full 16 bit shot so as to not degrade it for final editing. Does anyone know how the transfer the .NEFs into Photoshop CS2 from Nikon Capture in 16 bit quality (with the Nikon Raw Plug-in installed in Photoshop)? Thanks for any suggestions.

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deathdaemon
Jul 11, 2005
uninstall the nikon crap, and reinstall photoshop cs2 and learn it, an then get the camera raw update that they update almost every month. Hope that helps :


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Waldo
Jul 12, 2005
deathdaemon wrote:
uninstall the nikon crap, and reinstall photoshop cs2 and learn it, and then get the camera raw update that they update almost every month. Hope that helps 😛

Hmmm, until Adobe makes a better interpolation algorithm for their Camera RAW, I would stick to Nikon Capture. I agree that it takes terabytes of memory, but it does do a better job in converting.

Waldo

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