I have a nikon d200. When I view my raw images in Nikon View or Picture Project they look very different than when viewed with CS2 Bridge. The color in Nikon View & PP seems to have more color and better saturation. I noticed if I save the image as a .tiff with View and open the .tiff with CS2 then it looks the same. Are there maybe some setting in bridge I don't have set right? If I can I would like to do everything in one program, Bridge. But if I must I can save the raw files with Nikon View to tiff's.
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Mark K
Sounds like you may be shooting in RAW. If that's the case, Nikon's software will recognize the in camera settings such as saturation and sharpening where Adobe will not.
ACR will be acting on the images you're viewing in Bridge. I believe the default is for the auto settings to be on. These auto settings often don't look that great. Try opening an image in Camera Raw and disabling the auto settings. If you're using ACR 3.7 simply click on "Default", which is just above the Exposure slider.
To make it so that the Auto settings are never used, open the Preferences dialog and uncheck "Apply auto tone adjustments".
If you're using ACR 3.6 or one of the versions that uses the check boxes for the auto settings, you'll need to uncheck them all and then go into preferences and (I'm going from memory here), click "Save Camera Raw defaults".
the colors will probably look better, but they still may not match what you see in Nikon View.
Steve,
Thanks, I think that must be the case. Is it just the nikon cameras that it can't read or does it have the same problem with all camera raw files? If so, do most pholtographers save the image first in a tiff format with the camera supplied software and then work with the photo in adobe cs2? I was hoping the CS2 would have been able to read the whole nikon raw file when i bought it.
Mark
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Mark K
ACR will be acting on the images you're viewing in Bridge. I believe the default is for the auto settings to be on. These auto settings often don't look that great. Try opening an image in Camera Raw and disabling the auto settings. If you're using ACR 3.7 simply click on "Default", which is just above the Exposure slider.
To make it so that the Auto settings are never used, open the Preferences dialog and uncheck "Apply auto tone adjustments".
If you're using ACR 3.6 or one of the versions that uses the check boxes for the auto settings, you'll need to uncheck them all and then go into preferences and (I'm going from memory here), click "Save Camera Raw defaults".
the colors will probably look better, but they still may not match what you see in Nikon View.
Thanks, I think that must be the case. Is it just the nikon cameras that it can't read or does it have the same problem with all camera raw files? If so, do most pholtographers save the image first in a tiff format with the camera supplied software and then work with the photo in adobe cs2? I was hoping the CS2 would have been able to read the whole nikon raw file when i bought it.
Mark