Posted by Greg Maklae on January 7, 2010 at 5:14 PM
I recently upgraded my computer, which uses Windows 7, as well as installed Elements 8. NEF files from my Nikon only show a generic icon, regardles of how I set the view options not the image like I got on my old system with XP, which also has Elements 5 and 8 loaded. I did have to install a different version of camera raw in the plug-in folder on PSE 5, and tried the same on PSE 8, but failed to get image icon. Any suggestions. Thanks for any info.
Posted by Steve Kennedy on January 7, 2010 at 11:49 PM
For what its worth, I use PSE8 on a Windows 7 machine and do not have any problems with my Nikon RAW files. My version of Win 7 is 32 bit Ultimate. I don't know if that makes a difference. I did upgrade PSE8 from 7. Perhaps that's the difference.
Check to see what program in Windows is set as the default when you open your pictures folder. I had the same problem with Vista because Window Photo Gallery doesn't show thumbnails for RAW, but Windows Live Photo Gallery does. I don't recall whether Windows Live comes with, or is an optional free add-on, but it is worth it, and then you can tell windows to always use Windows live when you open that folder.
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