Photoshop CS3 Malfunction - Help !!!

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Comment by Mulgabill on October 19, 2008 at 1:26am

Hi David; I never had the problem with saving files in RAW/JPG. Saving files through Nikon Transfer to PS 10 gets the pix into Photoshop RAW 4.4.1. Being new at the RAW?NEF game I just went with the flow. However trying to go the PNG track the "spit really hit the fan"!. The panic has since settled down. It is helpful that you have now increased the sum total of our knowledge. regards

Comment by Rory Mole on June 17, 2008 at 9:57pm

Hi there David,

All the work that I do on my RAW images is all done in 16 bits, but the option to save a JPEG is never greyed out or not available. The options are all there and I suppose that bridge will do the conversion from 16bits down to 8.

Glad you found the answer to your problem. It is common knowledge that JPEG is only 8bits.

Thanks for your research that can help others.

Regards,

Rory

Comment by David Wollum on June 17, 2008 at 3:33pm

Thanks for the suggestions Rory. In answer to our question, yes... I open my images through Bridge. I agree with you - that is the way to go.

I checked for an update, but the updater said I was current.

HOWEVER !!! ... after quite a bit of time fumbling around on the Adobe site I found the answer. Long story made short - If you want to save a RAW image in the jpeg format, the RAW image must be 8 bits/channel... not 16. That's where I was making my mistake. I was working with 16 bits/channel, which will only save to TIFF or a few other, less-usable formats... Although, if you're doing print work, 16 bits/channel and saving as a TIFF is the better method.

Here's a link to the answer on Adobe's site:

http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=325073&sliceId=1

Thanks so much for your input Rory. I appreciate the effort.

Comment by Rory Mole on June 17, 2008 at 12:38am

Hi there Dave,

Are you opening your RAW images through Adobe Bridge. If yes, this is the way to go. It is quite possible to open your RAW images straight in Photoshop CS 3 itself, but why would you?

Next, once you go into bridge, run through an update process and have bridge updated with the latest components. Then open your RAW image by first clicking on it and pressing cntrl +R (PC). Your RAW image should be opened in Bridge's Adobe Camera RAW. Do whatever adjustments to colour temperature and so forth. Once you've done all of that, you can click the save image button on the bottom left or open image on the right. If you press open image on the right it will take you right into PS CS3 where you can edit your image.

Another thing you can do if you want to batch process more than one RAW image all together, first go into Bridge, and find the folder where you have your RAW images stored, then click on the ones you want to adjust in Adobe Camera Raw by clicking on the first image in the list and then hold down the ctrl key as you find the others you want to process. Once you've selected all the images, hold down the ctrl key and click on R and all the images you have will open in Adobe Camera Raw and will be listed on the left side. Once in Camera Raw, at the top left corner you will see a button that says "select all" click on it and you will be able to make any white balance adjustments and others to all of the images. Then click on save image on the left and you will be presented with some options. Once you have selected a unique name, you'll see the bottom option under "format", click the drop down arrow and you should be presented with the following file format options - digital negative, JPEG, Tiff, Photoshop. You should be able to choose JPEG as the format you want. Or you can go the other option by opening the files in Photoshop and saving them as JPEG's from there.

I think that maybe the issue could be solved by running an update on Bridge and CS3, it should sort out the problem.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Rory