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Bridge works with any files from lightroom or any program, to tell you what the file type is. NEF is the Nikon camera raw format.
How did you get "OLY0003-01" out of your camera without an file name extension? Did you use software to extract the image from your camera, or maybe a compact flash reader to drag copy.
What you posted earlier seems to have an issue, the file is named .psd but the file type is .tif.
Looking over your situation with more information i think you would be better keep the fi
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Sometimes, but not always. See below. I am looking for some way to tell what the file type is when it is not displayed in the tab.
If you right-click the tab and press “Revel in Explorer” it will open the file path of the image and have it selected already,
From here can easily get the files information by right-clicking and viewing properties
Edit: I see you’re on MAC OS but I’d imagine something similar to happen.
I tried that before I posted. The link is there, but it is disabled (and I don't know why), so it can not be accessed.
You can also use Bridge to show the filetype that comes from the resouce fork.
If you are interested in knowing more, let ius know the history of this file, especially such as if coming from a camera native format or email attachment.
Bridge works with any files from lightroom or any program, to tell you what the file type is. NEF is the Nikon camera raw format.
How did you get "OLY0003-01" out of your camera without an file name extension? Did you use software to extract the image from your camera, or maybe a compact flash reader to drag copy.
What you posted earlier seems to have an issue, the file is named .psd but the file type is .tif.
Looking over your situation with more information i think you would be better keep the finder setting off, that I originally suggested to actually match my screenshot, and manually adding the file extension at the end as per norman.sanders suggestion. That finder setting on causes alot of trouble in the end being on, and is a long and convoluted explanation between manually tags in the filename, and showing a tag pulled from the resource fork part of the file.
Hey thanks Charles I just learned something new. I tried your right click method and I got a completely different menu with Duplicate, Image Size, Canvas Size and File Info. As you can see, I prefer having floating windows rather than consolidated tabs so I tried 'consolidating all to tabs' at which point I get your menu. In other words the menu is dependent on whether you use floating windows or not. I'm always forgetting where Duplicate is on the Photoshop menu bar and it has no default keyboard shortcut. Easy access to File Info, Image and Canvas Size is also much more convenient.
This issue happens on Mac as Windows requires the 3dot extension on filenames. One way that may help is to enable this setting.
I do not like having that setting on as sometimes I get double file extensions going out of control. eg: filename.psd.psd
Often Photoshop will show the file extension in the window, even if that does not exist in the filename on Mac. From here gets more complicated and not 100% sure how the entirety of this works.Doing a Photoshop saves as, to filename without 3dot extension often creates the issue you have.
In closing would recommend
- always put a 3dot extension onto your filenames
- do not use periods anywhere else in filename.
A couple of things.
First, yes, my Finder setting is to always show suffixes. That is one of the first things I do when I open Finder on a new Mac.
Second, a question. When you write that doing a Save As without a file suffix, do you mean in the file name window of the Save As dialog box? Since I have to set the dropdown to the proper suffix and since PS always appends the proper suffix based on the dropdown box setting, I have never thought that was important. For what it is worth I never use a '.' in an image name.
Lastly, I have to admit that there is a lot going on in the load and save functionality that I guess I do not really understand. This problem of the file suffix not displaying on the tab mostly seems to happen to me when I use LR to open an image as a smart object in PS. I have LR set to send psd files to PS, but I am not sure if that happens when I send a smart object. In that case the suffix does not display, but that is not the only problem. I thought I could determine what the file type was was to look at the File -> File Info display since that should contain the proper information, but here is a screen shot of what I get when I do that:
You can see two things here. First, the top of the box contains the psd suffix that I assumed was being sent, but the bottom of the box says that the Format is a tiff. Perhaps that difference can be explained, but I do not know how. Probably because I do not actually know what happens when PS opens an image as a smart object. In this case the original image was a psd, but if I open a raw image as a smart object in PS the same dialog box displays no suffix in the heading and still says tiff.
I admit to being confused by this, but then again it is a familiar feeling ...
Hi Mike,
Smart objects are quite confusing things. When you have a smart object you have a software based container which internally through code points towards the original source file from your Olympus camera. If you have ever done any programming it's a little like an object that is an instance of a class. If you try to 'save' a smart object, Photoshop will prompt you for a name, file type and location for the image file and so you will not overwrite your original file. You can always access your original image by double clicking the smart object in the layers panel.
You can of course avoid loading a smart object, in which case you will see your file suffix on the tab. This is a photo from a Canon camera and you can see the .CR2 suffix.
If you attempt to 'save' you'll get a prompt and need to assign a file type. This is because all digital cameras have a proprietary raw format and Photoshop doesn't know how to create those file formats like CR2, NEF etc The exception to this is if you use digital negative format ,dng which is generic to all digital cameras.
To avoid loading you image as a smart object so you can see the file suffix like above, you need to make sure Camera Raw is setup like below. I'm not a Lightroom specialist but there must be something similar in Lightroom to this. At the very bottom in Camera Raw click the marked link and a window pops up. You must make sure the box 'Open in Photoshop as Smart Objects' is not checked
If you look at the bottom right corner of the Camera Raw dialog box with the box unchecked it will look like this
If you have the box checked to export as a camera raw smart object it will look like this
You can do the same thing on the fly and not touch the checkbox by holding down the 'shift' key and it toggles between 'Open Image' and 'Open Object'. However I would advise using the checkbox method due to a bug. If you export to Photoshop as a smart object as expected it will not include a suffix, but when you switch back to 'Open Image' it still exports to Photoshop without the suffix. To get it to behave properly again you need to close down Photoshop and reopen. As long as 'Open Image' is used you will get the suffix, but the bug will come into play if you flip between the two options and jump in and out of Photoshop.
Hope that helps
Terri
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