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Sep 17, 2012
10:53 AM
What reason is there to do anything but ignore the camera preview once the photo is imported into LR?
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Sep 15, 2012
11:34 AM
1 Upvote
We believe you as far as what it is that is happening that the image starts out ok and then darkens, it is why and what to do about it that is in question. Do you have any in-camera lighting or toning or highlight-compression settings set, anything that changes the image before it is written as a JPG? Another reply, above, mentions a specific setting to check as DRO – perhaps Dynamic Range Optimization. If you have this enabled it explains what you’re seeing and the remedy is to turn it off so that your camera is properly exposing the images. To reinterate, with DRO enabled, the camera is purposely underexposing your images then brightens the shadows in camera and applies noise-reduction before writing the JPG or embedding the preview. This is only convenient if you are using camera-jpgs and only confusing if you are doing RAW with a non-Sony product such as LR or Photoshop from Adobe. Using Adobe products you can brighten the shadows yourself and apply highlight compression and add noise-reduction, but because LR is written by Adobe not Sony, the adjustments are not automatic like they are in the camera. You are in charge and you have to do them. If you need to underexpose your own images using a negative EV-setting to keep the highlights from clipping, then you can do that, yourself, but you'll know you've done that and will expect to do your own boost in exposure in LR and add more noise-reduction than normal. If you still need us to look at things, please upload ORIGINAL raw files to www.dropbox.com and post the public download link so others can try and see if the results are the same for them. It’s possible something else is going on like you've set your default settings to extra dark when you import the images. For screen-grabs as you’ve used dropbox for, this time, it is easier for anyone reading your message if you just attach the screen-capture image to the message on the web version of the forum using the camera icon above where you type in your message on the forum. This makes them visible within the message instead of having to open them in another browser window.
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Sep 15, 2012
10:17 AM
Can you post a public download link for one of your images after uploading them to something like www.dropbox.com or www.yousendit.com? The graininess is normal if you are brightening dark areas, because that brightening is a digital increase in ISO of those areas. The camera-JPGs will have had noise-reduction applied to them and in LR you need to turn up the Luminance NR because the Adobe factory-default is zero. Since there is so much difference in exposure between the LR and NEX7 images, perhaps you have a setting enabled in camera that auto-fixes exposure problems or auto-compresses highlights. Highlight compression is done by the camera unexposing the images by a stop or more, and then digitally adding brightness to only the darker area—like Fill-Light or increasing Shadows does in LR. If you are going to be using LR then you should turn off the camera fixes because they mask exposure problems when you view the images on your camera’s LCD. What version of LR are you using, specifically?
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Sep 10, 2012
05:24 PM
Yeah, some people will help identify the cause of an issue, while others will just whine about it, although it is useful to see how slow in a video. I did get a virus warning maybe the 6th time I loaded the blog page and the first time using IE9, but before and after I never saw a virus warning, so it must be something intermittent, perhaps controlled by something on the server. I tried deleting cookies that might have tracked I had already visited but that didn’t bring it back.
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Aug 30, 2012
06:54 PM
Isn’t LR part of the cloud-subscription, now, too? Or is it just free with the Creative Cloud subscription, but nothing is cloud-based with LR? And, not being someone with a CC-subscription, does the CS software deployment even happen via the cloud or is it just the licensing that is auto-renewing through the cloud and the updates come down with the Adobe Updater as always?
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Aug 30, 2012
05:28 PM
SDLC explains why an update only comes out every 3 months, but not why a new cloud deployment takes mentionably less time compared to the old download link on a webpage that they’ve done for years and years. Are there really several days or weeks more of QC involved with updating a few pages on an Adobe website with the download links compared to dropping the same installer package into the cloud? Do the cloud updates show up without any supporting online documentation?
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Aug 30, 2012
03:06 PM
Since us non-cloud people don’t pay as much as those with a subscription, maybe we don’t deserve such quick, or maybe the cloud people are the guinea pigs for new features, the early adopters, and us non-cloud people get the benefits of their troubles. If an RC comes out ahead of the cloud version then it doesn’t matter all that much who gets the release version sooner, unless there are significant bugs.
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Aug 30, 2012
02:37 PM
I’m a PC person so can’t look inside the DMG file. Is there an explicitly 64-bit version of the Mac CS5 plug-in in it or not? You might try to contact the plug-in author using the Help link next to the download link and see if they respond and can confirm the plug-in works with CS6 as suggested by the download link caption, but nowhere else.
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Aug 30, 2012
02:21 PM
2 Upvotes
Does this one work in CS6 64 on a Mac? Under the link for Mac CS5 it says Mac CS5, CS6, so maybe it will: http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/product/ICOFormat#icoformat
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Aug 30, 2012
12:17 PM
Try downloading and updating manually starting at: http://www.adobe.com/downloads/updates/ And another thread with the same question, in case it shows a solution sooner than this one: http://forums.adobe.com/message/4661270#4661270
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Aug 21, 2012
03:03 PM
I would guess that the CS or PS installation is corrupted and an uninstall of everything Adobe, clearing the preferences, running the CSCleaner script and a re-install might fix things. Installs can become corrupted if beta and release versions of the same product have been installed or if a mixture of single-purchase-apps and suite-bundled apps are or have been installed on the same system, where, for example, Bridge is looking for the bundled version of PS while the PS actually installed, now, is the single-app-purchased version, and Bridge is looking the wrong place to confirm PS is there. It also could be that Bridge is seeing an expired license for a beta or other-purchase-model version that knows that app is no longer installed. If CSCleaner doesn’t fix licensing issues, then maybe there is a different thing to do to reset licensing.
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Aug 18, 2012
05:33 PM
Mine runs fine. I have seen people on this forum say theirs runs fine, even as recently as yesterday, for even huge D800 images, but others have many-second delays on very fast systems, so there is a big problem with LR4 for some users, yes, which is why it is wise to check the trial on a particular computer to make sure it works ok.
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Aug 18, 2012
05:09 PM
LR4 is not slow for most people, I don’t think, but obviously you would want to check how it works on your computer, tonight, so you know if you need to deal with using the DNG Converter, tomorrow, or not.
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Aug 18, 2012
05:03 PM
The last version of LR3 was updated last December, and the 5D.3 is newer than that, so yes you need LR4. You can download the LR4 trial ( or just the LR 4.1 update from www.adobe.come/downloads/updates/ ) and have 30 days before you need to purchase and input a serial number. The other choice is to use the DNG Converter 7.1 that knows about your new camera but allows the converted DNGs to open in LR3.
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Aug 17, 2012
01:07 PM
Mac or PC? Can you open the photo in question using Photoshop? The error suggests you have Bridge installed but not Photoshop installed. If you do have Photoshop CS6 installed then it seems like Bridge CS6 is not detecting that Photoshop is installed.
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Aug 07, 2012
06:34 AM
From the length of time it took Adobe to support some cameras where you cannot turn off lens correction, I think Adobe may have contractually agreed to not allow turning off lens correction for particular cameras in exchange for cooperation from the manufacturer in rendering the files. Presumably such a contract would benefit the manufacturer by hiding how poor its lenses really are. It’s also possible that this inability to turn off lens corrections for certain cameras is a self-imposed restriction so no one thinks Adobe’s rendering is poor.
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Aug 06, 2012
10:59 PM
Adobe should add an Sensor or Available option to the available Crop list and keep the Original item as what the camera specifies.
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Jul 29, 2012
11:09 AM
Convert to DNG only operates on raw files and if the raw files are not supported by LR then it cannot convert them to DNGs, either. There are other ways to make a copy of your photos while waiting for LR to support the RX100 raw format.
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Jul 28, 2012
11:47 PM
Do you have LR set to treat RAWs and JPGs as separate files? The default is to hide the JPG, and perhaps this even happens when the RAW companion file isn’t from a supported camera, yet.
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Jul 27, 2012
02:29 PM
The hosts file change mentioned 4 months ago would be if there had been some hacking going on that disabled the Adobe activation server using the “127.0.0.1 activate.adobe.com” line in the hosts file and the adding of the # in front disables that hosts entry, effectively re-enabling the activation server access by programs on the computer. Unless your hosts file actually has the entry to disable the adobe activation server or other adobe servers, then your problem would be different. The error in general means that when you are right-clicking and opening in ACR, the host application for ACR, which is Photoshop, cannot start. One reason might be that the place the right-click Open in ACR command is looking for Photoshop doesn’t exist, anymore—maybe a registry or config-file has the wrong thing in it, and another reason would be the an existing version of Photoshop is being started up, but something went wrong before the startup completed. If you are on a 64-bit Windows system, there are potentially two Photoshop executables, one 32-bit and one 64-bit. With CS6, at least, there are also two versions of Bridge, so maybe it matters which 32-vs-64-bit Bridge you’re running. To test this try starting up the 32-bit Photoshop and right-click-Open-in-ACR, and if that doesn’t work, then shut down the 32-bit version of PS and start up the 64-bit version of PS, and try the Open-In-ACR again. If it still doesn’t work, then there is some other problem. Adobe applications can sometimes be confused if there have been trials and release versions on the same system that aren’t uninstalled and installed in the right order. There is a CS5 cleaner script you can search for on Adobe’s site that attempts to remove all traces of CS5 from your system. You would only want to run this after you’d uninstalled as much as you could, yourself.
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Jun 15, 2012
07:23 PM
Here are some of Adobe's words describing how the sliders work, from their Help file: http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/using/sharpening-noise-reduction-camera-raw.html Amount -- Adjusts edge definition. Increase the Amount value to increase sharpening. A value of zero (0) turns off sharpening. In general, set Amount to a lower value for cleaner images. The adjustment is a variation of Unsharp Mask, which locates pixels that differ from surrounding pixels based on the threshold you specify and increases the pixels’ contrast by the amount you specify. When opening a camera raw image file, the Camera Raw plug-in calculates the threshold to use based on camera model, ISO, and exposure compensation. Radius -- Adjusts the size of the details that sharpening is applied to. Photos with fine details generally need a lower setting. Photos with larger details can use a larger radius. Using too large a radius generally results in unnatural-looking results. Detail -- Adjusts how much high-frequency information is sharpened in the image and how much the sharpening process emphasizes edges. Lower settings primarily sharpen edges to remove blurring. Higher values are useful for making the textures in the image more pronounced. Masking -- Controls an edge mask. With a setting of zero (0), everything in the image receives the same amount of sharpening. With a setting of 100, sharpening is mostly restricted to those areas near the strongest edges. Press Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) while dragging this slider to see the areas to be sharpened (white) versus the areas masked out (black).
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May 29, 2012
02:49 PM
The link with Lightroom_SDK_4.0.zip at the end works: http://download.macromedia.com/pub/developer/lightroom/sdk/Lightroom_SDK_4.0.zip
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May 24, 2012
12:25 PM
You can move your Preferences window down on your computer by using the keyboard: Alt-Space -> M ( -> down-arrow multiple times) -> Enter
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May 23, 2012
01:50 PM
Your files are probably corrupted. Please upload one of them to www.dropbox.com or www.yousendit.com and post the public download link, here. If the files you already have are not for public viewing, then take one more of a blank wall or other innocuous subject, transfer it to your computer using the same process as the most recent ones that do not work, and upload that as the example, after verifying it also has the issue.
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May 23, 2012
12:42 PM
The difference in Wes’s wedding photos is the location of the three bright areas: In the one that is too dark, the candles’ reflection, the light-behind-the-curtain, and the top of the bride’s dress are all closer to the center, a little, than the one that seems ok, and were deemed the subject, so everything else had to be darkened significantly for them to show their full detail. Apparently these bright areas are being ignored in the one where the autotoning is mostly ok because they are closer to the edges or perhaps because the lights-behind-the-curtain has a significant black area to the right which gives the lights-behind-the-curtain subject status. Without looking at others’ methods that work for them, what I usually do, is do Auto Tone, then undo the negative Exposure adjustment, then crank the Highlights all the way down to -100. This compresses the highlights, stretches the contrast, but leaves the overall camera exposure, intact, and then I tweak from there. Obviously the camera manufactures only have one EV parameter to optimize in their metering so they get it right more often that Auto-PV2012 toning, which has several parameters to worry about.
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May 12, 2012
01:22 PM
ACR only supports interpretation of NEFs within an Adobe product. When you are using a file selection dialog to choose files, this is Adobe using an OS-level function, not Bridge or Photoshop, so you will need an update to the OS or provide it an OS-level plug-in to show the previews, with the link in the other reply being a possible choice. If you are saying that Previews within an Adobe product are not showing, perhaps the ACR cache needs cleared.
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May 02, 2012
08:21 PM
PV2010 was not removed.
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May 01, 2012
11:10 AM
I would stop using Nikon Transfer. Just use Finder or Windows Explorer to move the file from your card to your hard-drive, or even use LR’s function to do that. Nikon Transfer is apparently changing the contents of the files and making them unrecognizable to non-Nikon products.
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Apr 30, 2012
06:58 PM
What firmware does the camera have? Perhaps something has changed? I just tested ACR 6.7 RC(1) with CS5 this afternoon and I can read a sample D800 file: http://movies.dpreview.com.s3.amazonaws.com/nikon_d800/DSC_0241.NEF.zip I downloaded from DPReview D800 RAW studio comparison page: http://www.dpreview.com/previews/nikonD800/9 Opening DSC_0241.NEF in PS-CS5/ACR 6.7 RC, here is the proof it works, at least with my computer and this NEF:
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Apr 30, 2012
06:46 PM
Do you possibly have 2 camera raw plug-ins installed...there would be to entries in Photoshop -> About Plug-in...
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