Open RAW (.NEF) in Elements from Lightroom

I am using Lightroom 3.3 and Elements 8. I shoot everything in RAW. I have imported thousands of RAW files into Lightroom (using the copy command during import) and can no longer open them directly in Elements. When I edit in Elements from within Lightroom, I could only get it open in TIFF. I changed preferences and now get PSD. Either way, I can only get limited options. For example, I can not do anything with layers; I can only save in a few formats and JPEG is not one of them. I love elements and have several add-ins that I use regularly. If I try and open one of the RAW files from within Elements I get an error message "Cannot open 'file' because it is the wrong type of file." Are the two programs not compatible? And why is LIghtroom changing a .NEF file so I can't edit it any more in Elements?

I think, nowadays nobody really considers PSD as an advantage over TIFF, since TIFF now can hold all the details like layers etc.
The discussion about whether to use Raw or DNG is a different topic, which has been discussed lengthy in other threads. There are advantages and disadvantages for both, but it does not affect what happens when you edit in PSE anyway.
And yes, you will have all the "correction properties" of a Raw in a DNG (which is a Raw also). What you loose (if you don't embed the proprietary Raw into the DNG) when converting to DNG is some proprietary information contained in the Raw, like focus points used.
Beat

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I don't know Macs so can't give you advice if CS6 will run on your Mac.
But since you have Lr5 you won't need to open Raw images in Photoshop. Lr5 gives you all the Raw editing capabilities that you need. I don't think CS6 will add anything to Raw editing capabilities that Lr5 doesn't have - although I don't know CS6 since I am still working with CS5.
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I haven't used photoshop in ages and I got a new camera. I have been on the phone with Adobe (no help) and spent a couple of hours online trying to figure this out. I'm confused, frustrated and about to throw my computer out the window.
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Odds are cs5 is too old. If you do a search on my the main Adobe website there is a list of compatible cameras for the last known update to camera raw for cs5.
Each version of Photoshop only gets so many updates for camera raw then it is necessary to upgrade Photoshop to get the next update for camera raw.
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The 650D wasn’t supported until ACR 7.2 that was released the beginning of October 2012.
Adobe only updates ACR for their current version of Elements, which is PSE 11, not 10.
So you’ll either need to update to PSE11 or use the DNG Converter 7.2 to convert your CR2 files to DNGs and open them in the older version of ACR.
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=106 <http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=106&platform=Windows> &platform=Windows
Another alternative would be to get Photoshop Lightroom which doesn’t cost a lot more than Elements and will give you more raw processing capabilities, and you’ll still be able to do Edit in Photoshop Elements for any pixel editing with your older version of Elements:
http://www.adobe.com/lightroom/

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please help. i really don't want to have to buy a new version of elements or a new computer.

Hi,
Unfortunately the Nikon D3300 requires camera raw 8.4 which is not compatible with PSE 10.
Even worse, the DNG Converter 8.4 will not run on a XP or Vista comtuter.
I don't know if the software that came with the D3300 will run on the XP system but if it does, your only option would be to use it to convert the NEF files to TIF files and then PSE 10 will be able to use the TIF files.
I think that you really need to think about upgrading your system sooner than later.
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When I open RAW (NEF) images from my Nikon D50 I don't get the detailed box described in "Adobe Help." I get a much more abbreviated box with many fewer options. How can I get the more complete box?

bigone5500 wrote:
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* you need this if the ACR version required for your camera is later than the last one that worked with CS2 (which was 3.x).

Trying to open RAW (NEF) in CS2

Every time I try to open RAW photos in CS2 I get the error message "could not complete your request because the file-format cannot parse the file". What do I do?

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Hi, What opersting system are you using? What camera did the camera raw files come from?
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I've been using Elements 10 on my windows 7 machine editing RAW/NEF picture files taken with a Nikon D40X camera with no problems. I upgraded my camera to a Nikon DX7100 and can no longer load my RAW/NEF into elements 10. Is there a compatability problem

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NEF's for the D7100 should work with the latest version PSE13
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is that the eos 5d?
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MAC: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/thankyou.jsp?ftpID=5824&fileID=5839
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