HT5182 Raw and Iphoto

I have just purchased a Fuji X10 and shooting in Raw they come up in iPhoto with the dreaded ! mark, what is the problem. they also will not go into Aperture.
I have never had a problem shooting Raw with Nikon, they transfer in ok, I have had to delete a lot of photos because of the ! problem, it looks like there is a
problem with Raw and Iphoto, can anyone help me.

Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
You might want to Google on RAW. There’s a wealth of learning to be done on the subject. Here’s a pencil sketch.
You can only do one thing with RAW files, and that’s process them. RAW is not like other files. It’s a dump from the sensor on the camera. In the more common Point and Shoot cameras when you take a pic the camera processes the sensor dump by a predefined set of rules and saves the result as a JPEG.
What you’re now doing is creating your own set of rules for each pic. This is what you do when you edit the pic in iPhoto. The tools for doing this are on the Adjust pane.
You’re not seeing the RAW in the camera. Your seeing a jpeg preview.
As to colour matching, what colour profile have the pics and does it match what‘s on your printer?
Regards
TD

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Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
You might want to Google on RAW. There’s a wealth of learning to be done on the subject. Here’s a pencil sketch.
You can only do one thing with RAW files, and that’s process them. RAW is not like other files. It’s a dump from the sensor on the camera. In the more common Point and Shoot cameras when you take a pic the camera processes the sensor dump by a predefined set of rules and saves the result as a JPEG.
What you’re now doing is creating your own set of rules for each pic. This is what you do when you edit the pic in iPhoto. The tools for doing this are on the Adjust pane.
You’re not seeing the RAW in the camera. Your seeing a jpeg preview.
As to colour matching, what colour profile have the pics and does it match what‘s on your printer?
Regards
TD

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Recently I have this problem that some (not even all from the same CF card) stored RAW images in iPhoto 6 shows in the software as RAW but when I am moving them to a folder on my desktop to process in Photoshop they have changed to jpg without my involvement. I am then unable to use the RAW adventages. Any ideas on what's going on?

iPhoto converts RAW images when dragging out of the iPhoto browser into the Finder, by default. You can get the original RAW images by dragging the photos with the Option key held down.
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>I want to edit a JPG or TIF image in iPhoto in ACR, but I seem to be unable to do that.
>The panel with the pop-up menu to set Camera RAW when opening a JPG or TIF file from an ordinary Finder Folder I appears to be completely bypassed, when when coming from iPhoto.
>Is there a setting somewhere that would force the JPG or TIF images to ACR (instead of PSE 6 proper) when I click Edit in iPhoto?
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I need this for teaching purposes.
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By the way, I also run CS4 and I can do the above with CS4 easily, by setting the preferences in
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>iBobK

>But, why on Earth would iPhoto be remotely involved? Personally I don't even know anybody >who uses iPhoto, and, yes, I'm a Mac user.
I use iPhoto for my >25,000 photo library/organization as well as sharing photo libraries with others on my home network. I use it just about every day. It is also my "gateway" to Photoshop CS3. I find a photo I want to edit/add to a collage/etc. and use iPhoto to launch Photoshop CS3. In addition, its seamless integration with the other iLife tools is perfect for what I need. I even use it with Apple's Aperture.
>There's no "integration" of iPhoto with Photoshop or Photoshop Elements.
Not sure which version you're using, but iPhoto 8 works just fine with both Photoshop CS3 and Photoshop Elements 6. For the most part that is how I start either app. In fact, with your instructions above, I am now able to open JPGs with Adobe Camera Raw. I only start Photoshop or Photoshop Elements if I am starting something from scratch.
>All those applications or utilities you mention in #7 have nothing to do with Photoshop or its functions. They are irrelevant in this context.
Actually #7, it is very relevant. That is what I mean by seamless integration with the other iLife tools. The only ones listed in #7 that I haven't used is iTunes and Garage Band. All of the others I have used.
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SP

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Stephen
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TD

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http://idisk.mac.com/macintosh_tech-Public
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6) Complete step 5 for the Raw.plist file.
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* 9) Backup the "Raw Decode Presets.plist" file *
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Greetings: Fist, let me make the neophyte apology and plea - I'm sorry, I should have come here first; I didn't and now I need your help.
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Sometime in the not-too-distant future I would like to have iphoto 9 running on my imac with a clean library of images and a seamless way of downloading, editing and storing images (including the RAW data).
The macbook pro is for my highschool-aged daughter, who will run iphoto 9 but not have any RAW image data on her system. She would like to copy some of the old iMac's images to put into her own iPhoto 9 library (probably using a disk, email or on-line photo service - ideally, I would like to be able to copy and remove a number of those images from my HD and give them to her for the macbook)
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Terence, Is the picture folder the primary source for the images or does that data reside somewhere else?
If you gathered them there, then yes.
I really don't want to have to go through 14,000 images looking for the pictures that I want to keep (or is that my only option?).
Only you can decide what you want to keep.
Why does the computer keep making copies of the images and filing them under date and events?
That's how iPhoto works. It's not a problem usually, only you did go in there and make a problem, and now we are trying to fix it.
You advise not to muck around in the picture file via preview,
No I don't. I advise not to much around in the iPhoto Library Folder.
but if I download images through a program other than iPhotos - image capture or adobe aren't I doing that anyway?
Adobe what? Adobe is a software manufacturer who make many excellent applications, you need to be more precise. And no, if you import photos with Image Capture or “adobe” no you are not interfering with the iPhoto Library Folder.
Can you edit a base image file somewhere and remove it from the HD without iphoto making a copy of it and storing it somewhere else?
This is stunningly easy. Don't use iPhoto. Use an image editor.
I want to look the negatives, decide which ones I want and throw the rest away. Can that be done or am I way off course?
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Hook up your camera. Import the pics to iPhoto. Go through the imported pics. Trash the ones you don't want. Then process the ones you do. But you must learn how to use iPhoto to do this successfully
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Process it: If you want to use another editor: You can set Photoshop (or any image editor) as an external editor in iPhoto. (Preferences -> General -> Edit Photo: Choose from the Drop Down Menu.) This way, when you double click a pic to edit in iPhoto it will open automatically in Photoshop or your Image Editor, and when you save it it's sent back to iPhoto automatically. This is the only way that edits made in another application will be displayed in iPhoto.
Regards
TD

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Hi All,
I have just received my MBP and will be using Aperture to edit my RAW files from a Nikon camera.
I was wondering if Aperture works the same as IPhoto in regards to the library function or do you still use IPhoto to arrange, tag your images etc...
If that is the case how do you do that if you are using RAW files? Does IPhoto recognise RAW images?
I would like to hear your workflow on a MAC.
Cheers.

Sad to say Richard but you are close but not quite correct. Aperture has a much reduced set of RAW support vs. iPhoto. Of this I can personally attest, but they're both covered on the Apple site.
To add to some other points you address...
iPhoto is still needed for simple integration with other iLife apps., as Aperture has no iLife integration. There is an Aperture2iLife script available (Lightbox software) which automates an export and import process. If you carry an iPod around with photos, then you'll need to maintain iPhoto for that purpose. Welcome to the land of duplicates!
iPhoto does indeed process the RAW and all image work is performed on a JPEG version therafter. The RAW is never used, but is stored in the Originals folder (along with any original JPG or TIF files from the camera if these were shot vs. RAW).
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Regards
TD

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