Raw thumbnails

Why is it that when shooting in Raw my thumbnails look about the correct exposure etc, however when they are opened in the RAW editor they are usually washed out and need a lot of manipulating to get back to the way the thumbnail apprears. I have PSE 3. I have the Settings in the RAW editor in either Camera Raw Defaults, or Image Settings. Either way it seems to make no difference - and all the other settings (Exposure etc) are ticked on Auto when I open the RAW Editor.

I presume you are on about how Elements makes auto adjustments to the Raw images, this is also a nuisance in the Organizer as well because if you have bracketed exposures all the thumbnails look the same as well which does not make choosing the correct exposure easy ;)
OK the first thing you have to do is open a image in the raw converter and untick all the auto boxes then click on the little arrow next to the settings box and select "Camera Raw Defaults".
now whenever you open a raw image it will be without any auto adjustments.
If you also wish your Raw thumbnails in Organizer to look how they were when you took them you will have to go to the Organizer and Select (Highlight) all your raw thumbnails and choose Edit> update thumbnails for selected items.
Hope this helps

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