Exporting masters (NEF) to desktop or external drive -
cant open NEF files.
Hi, I am very new to such a forum - can someone guide me here? I can open my NEF files if using my external editor, photoshop CS, however, I need to export masters to external drive or into a file on my desktop. When I have exported the master, I can see the thumbnail, but when I double click the thumbnail, or drag to the Photoshop icon in the doc, the window comes up with "Could not complete your request because it is not the right kind of document" and even if I change the extension to .psd. Is it because the Photoshop CS version can't read the files?? Thanks for some advice, I usually manage to find an answer via the online user manual, but stuck here.
Mac OS X (10.4.9)
When you 'open a NEF' using your external editor you are in fact opening a TIF that Aperture has generated, not a NEF.
You don't mention which Nikon camera you are using, but my guess is that it is not supported by CS. You may find you need to update to CS2/ACR (Adobe Camera Raw) in order to read your NEFs directly from Photoshop.
Alternatively, once you have exported NEFs from Aperture, why not just re-import those files as 'Referenced' files (even from external drives) and you will then be able to use Aperture as your Raw converter and still export the TIF to CS.
Hope this helps
FlatE
15.4" 2.33 MBP, MacMini 1.5 1GBRAM, 12" PB 1.33 Mac OS X (10.4.8)
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