Help with NEF files... blown out in Camera raw??

My Nef files look great until I use the magnify tool in bridge or open them in camera raw. Then all of sudden they instantly brighten and some of them look overexposed!! Please help... is there a default setting I need to change?? I'm using the Nikon d700 Adobe CS5.1

1) if you are doing a raw conversion using Adobe raw converters (ACR/LR) then you shall not be confused w/ embedded JPGs (written by camera's firmware in your raw files) that you might see temporarily while Adobe software renders some inital preview using your default raw conversion settings (you might change those, including default camera profiles = for Nikon cameras Adobe supplies a standard profile and some profiles to emulate OEM settings, exposure correction, etc)
2) you are are concerned that you in fact overexpose your raws (clipping in raw channels) then just download a free software = http://www.rawdigger.com/ and see the true raw histogramm (not jpeg based histogram that your camera shows), if your raw channels are not clipped then just dial negative expocorrection in ACR/LR and that is it... in most cases it is good to have raw histogram to be as close as possible (and sometimes even clip unimportant parts of the image - specular highlights for example are in many/most/all cases OK when clipped, because there no details for you in them) to clipping - because then you have a good signal to noise ratio for the most important parts of your image...

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Seems like it should yet I've not been successful in finding out how to do this.
Thanks for any help offered.

DiploStrat wrote:
I would argue that point with you. If you want to say that Photoshop, Elements, or Lightroom have more powerful editing tools, then you may well be right. But ACR is merely the front end to these programs and while I may be misaken on this, does not exist as a stand alone program.
I'm not going to pretend that I know everything there is to know about all of these different programs. The only thing I can tell you is that Camera Raw (not a standalone but part of PShop CS) provides not only powerful tools for correcting exposure, tone, HSL, sharpening, noise and all the other features that photographers love, but it can correct the visual and chromatic aberrations based on the camera lens profile metadata embedded in the photo. In short, with one click I can correct the distortions in the image that are unique to the lens used to take the image. It also has a camera calibration feature that can be set to the same as it is set in my Nikon.
I love Adobe Camera Raw. It is very good at what it does and is not trying to be more than what it is. I'm very happy with it and have no impetus to try another editing software.
Cataloguing photos is not what CR does, however, and for this, I have been using Aperture which seems to be trying to be much more than simply a cataloguing program.
As mentioned, I used to use something called iViewMedia Pro which was terrific but was bought out by Microsoft and turned into something called Expression Media. That worked until they decided to evolve away from merely being a cataloguing software. Looked into Extensis Portfolio but they want an insane amount of money for their product. Aperture seemed like it had the cataloguing features I need and so far, I don't have many complaints about it ... except one notable one: When I need to open a NEF file for editing, it opens directly into Photoshop rather than in CR.
What I'm hearing from these discussions is that there is some kind of conversion incompatibility which is a shame, but answers the question. I can only hope that Apple and Adobe will improve their products so that they are more compatible with one another.
I will, however, not hold my breath.

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I am running if 64 bit in Windows 7
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If LR is 3.2 and ACR is 6.2 (or they are otherwise synchronized to an older or newer version) then LR will tell PS to use ACR behind the scenes to render the file on the way into PS w/o having to go to an intermediate file and w/o seeing the ACR interface. LR does not render anything, ACR does, but you don't see it, except maybe a progress bar if it takes too long.
The adjustments in LR are the same as ACR so there's no need to show the ACR interface, right? When LR and PS are being used together, LR is meant to be the keeper of the adjustments in its database that ACR knows nothing about. If the ACR UI was visible and you tweaked something in ACR after coming out of LR it wouldn't get stored back into the LR database unless you synchronized the folder, later, and things would be a confusing mess.
Alternatively, if the LR and ACR version's aren't synced up, then LR may indeed render a TIF or PSD for PS to open, but again w/o ACR doing anything. So in no circumstance of LR-PS integration should you see the ACR plug-in when you tell LR to open into PS.

Can you help with the moire adjustment tool in Camera Raw?

I have a file with a lot of moire on a child's dress and am having problems using camera raw moire adjustment tool.
I opened a jpeg file (not raw) in camera raw. When I use the moire adjustment brush - set to +100 - and click on the eyeglass tool in the window to see the effect - it shows a white overlay.
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Thank you.

If possible deal with the moire issues up front. If you have original re-scan to see if you can reduce effect. If not do a web search for this. There are several tutorials listed such as http://photographylife.com/how-to-remove-moire-in-photoshop
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J

Janet,
> I am not using Photoshop 6, where did you get that from?
We are referring to Trevor in post #2, not you.
As to your issue, just a general comment, as I don't do Windows:
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>I have downloaded the latest Camera Raw update (4.1) and installed as directed.
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Lightroom 3.6 Camera Raw 6.6 - Issues with NEF files

Hello all,
I'm sure I'm not the only person with this problem, I'm a Nikon user and when I view NEF files in Lightroom 3, before the images loads completely it looks like it did on my camera but when the loading phase is done the picture darkens and it changes, sometimes darkens, sometimes changes tones.. What is happening here and is there any way around this with NEF files? I love Lightroom but if I can't work with NEF the way they look on my camera then I'm going to have to make the switch over to Capture NX 2 and I really don't want to.... In addition I have no problems with JPEG files so I know the issue is isolated to NEF files. I'm also on a Mac with 10.6.7 if that makes any difference.. not sure it does though.
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This is not just a characteristic of NEF files. Adobe software and other third party software does not read the in camera settings, instead it applies default settings. The initial image you see is probably the stored image that was processed by the camera, but it is replaced by the image rendered using the defaults from Lightroom. The default camera profile is Adobe Standard, which does not match what you get from the camera. Adobe has generated Camera matching profiles for Nikon and Canon cameras and a few others. Go to Camera Calibration and select the same profile you have selected in the camera - it will have a name like Camera Standard, Camera Neutral, etc. If you have other parameters set to nominal in the camera, this will be a close match to the JPG from the camera. You can set a new default for Lightroom that will use the setting you select and it will use this when any new NEF files are first opened. If you want the NEF file to open identical to the JPG from the camera then Nikon software is the only option. If you were using a Canon, then Canon software would be the only option.

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Noticed that my NEF files from Nikon D7000 camera are noticeably different in LT4 vs Nikon software. Read where folks are adjusting setting in LR4 for Nikon camera, but need help in how please. Also, perhaps there is a better way?
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mo 100 wrote:
Perhaps there is a better way?
There is now another way, dunno if you'll consider it better or not :
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R

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That's strage. Seems that the Camera Raw.8bi file has been moved to different location or has gone corrupt. By any chance did you try to move the camera raw plugin to a custom location?
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http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/thankyou.jsp?ftpID=5371&fileID=5001
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