Digital BW, The Print

At 11:30 AM -0400 5/8/06, aromanocpa@... wrote:
>You know, I originally thought so too. But photoshop won't let me 
>open them up unless they go through some kind of conversion from the 
>nikon photoproject software first?
>

That is by design, so you can never overwrite your original RAW file. 
You should save two versions of your file -- the original RAW file as 
a NEF (or DNG), and another copy after you have done the raw 
conversion the program you mention above. That conversion is a 
necessary step in the RAW workflow. I recommend you use Adobe Camera 
Raw for that conversion. ACR comes standard with Photoshop CS2.

Save your manipulated file as a Photoshop native file, .psd. That's 
as good a choice as any, since it has some built-in compression. To 
get output (prints) from outside sources, you will have to convert to 
another format, most likely JPEG, but sometimes TIFF. Do not worry 
about any of the other choices that Photoshop gives you.
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jonathan wills
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wills design
portland, oregon, usa