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alistairb38443433
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January 25, 2019
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RED Images?

  • January 25, 2019
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When shooting using monochrome setting in Camera RAW, and then transferring to lap top, thumbnails appear in B/W, when image is opened in RAW, images appear red.

However, when shooting images as a JPEG, they appear as B/W when opened in Elements.

I used a red filter when shooting the images.

Is this something that can be easily resolved? ie, should I uninstall/reinstall Elements, or is it something deeper?

I am using a Nikon D90.

Alistair

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    Jeff Arola
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    Jeff ArolaCommunity Expert
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    January 25, 2019

    You used an actual Red filter on the lens or the Red effect for B&W in the camera settings?

    Could you post a screenshot of what your seeing in Camera Raw?

    alistairb38443433
    alistairb38443433Author
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    January 25, 2019

    Hi Jeff, I took some photos today, using Monochrome setting, no filters and images are coming out in colour in Raw, but thumbnails are in B/W.... confused

    alistairb38443433
    alistairb38443433Author
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    January 25, 2019

    alistairb38443433  wrote

    Hi Jeff, I took some photos today, using Monochrome setting, no filters and images are coming out in colour in Raw, but thumbnails are in B/W.... confused

    Do you mean the thumbnails in the organizer? Or in your browser? If in the organizer, does the option to 'Update thumbnail' restore the red color?

    The monochrome mode in your camera does not change anything in your raw data which reflect the true color of the photo with the filter. This mode is just a tag in the metadata to tell how the in-camera conversion to jpeg  should convert the raw data. It is ignored by the raw  conversion. You should get red images from your raw files and their thumbnails in Elements while jpegs should come out in B/W.

    I think that your camera can embed a B/W thumbnail in the raw file which should be used by other viewers than the Organizer.


    Hi Michael,

    The thumbnails are kept in folders in "pictures" on my MAC, I rarely use Organizer.

    I use the red filter to enhance contrast when shooting in B/W and haven't had this issue before. I've even reset my camera back to factory settings but now B/W thumbnails are appearing in colour when opened in Elements Raw and thats without using a filter of any sort.

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