November 15th, 2009 Category: Photography
You have purchased a new camera and the RAW or NEF pictures are not opened in Adobe Photoshop or Bridge CS4?
This is the case when you have e.g. a Canon 5D Mark II or Nikon D3S. What helps is a upgrade of Adobe Camera Raw. This can be done either manual using the download from Adobe or using the upgrade function in Photoshop (Help->Upgrades).
The update from Photoshop version 11.0 to 11.0.1 should also be done, a few stability issues should be fixed.
CS3 users will have a problem because Adobe Camera Raw is no longer developed for CS3. If you really want to use RAW/NEF then a upgrade to CS4 seems to be needed.
Written on November 15, 2009 | Posted in
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October 14th, 2009 Category: Photography
It may happen that the workspace of Adobe bridge gets damaged. In such a case thumbnails on the right corner of the Bridge window will be cut and the preview/metadata etc. windows will no longer be displayed. I’m not sure if this was caused by Bridge, Windows 7 or by myself. Also restarting bridge doesn’t help.
What helps is to reset the workspace. This function is hidden behind a small black triangle on the upper right side of the Bridge window. After clicking “Reset workspace” everything gets fine (see picture).
Don’t ask how long it took until I found this small triangle…
Written on October 14, 2009 | Posted in
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September 2nd, 2009 Category: Photography
When watching a photo in full screen mode by pressing “space” in Adobe Bridge you will recognize that the photo will be displayed blurred. For some reason Bridge uses thumbnails to display the photo in full screen which will result in a blurred display.
To avoid this enter the menu “Edit->Presets->Extended” (I guess this is the name of the menu, I only have the German version of Bridge here) and
activate the option [x] Generate preview in monitor size (see picture below of the German version).
Afterwards you will have to clear your disk cache (Edit->Presets->Cache), otherwise for already generated thumbnails you will not notice a difference.
Written on September 2, 2009 | Posted in
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