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Thread ID: 70483	2006-07-04 23:22:00	Photoshop CS2 or camera problem?	Beemer (6956)	Press F1

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468690	2006-07-05 05:23:00	Alternatively hook up the USB to the cam or the CF card to the mem card reader. Open My Computer and browse it, it will pop up as a removable hard drive. You can then copy and paste to anywhere on your own HDD in your computer. If you saved as JPG, 2x click it and it will open up in IE browser. If you saved as RAW that will open as in your Nikon software or in PSC2 dependent how your default software is set up.	Nomad (952)
468691	2006-07-05 05:29:00	Yes, the D200 is nice, it will do me because I am not prepared to pay the price currently asked for the D2X - also, the D2X is so bulky and heavy it would be like using the F5 - over a kilo! I did a test of an Olympus AZ1 for D-Photo and thought it was fantastic - light, and the quality was excellent, I'd be quite happy with one of those to carry around with me everywhere. I think I will be taking everyone's advice and just saving the original files into a folder then saving copies to play with so I never lose anything. It's never happened to me before, so it's not something I ever worried about until now. The RAW dialog box in CS2 never opened, and I certainly didn't shoot the photos in RAW, so I am still at a loss to know what happened there. When I had saved them (following all the steps I normally do, like changing the image size, etc and then saving as a maximum file size) there was nothing to indicate they had not been saved as JPEG (and when I went through it all again to ensure I had done it all right, the same thing happened) - it was just when I went to open them again, there was no thumbnail and it said the file type was 'file1' (from memory). I clicked on the 'take no action' box of that intial screen when it first came up - because I usually open Photoshop first and then open the images off the card.	Beemer (6956)
468692	2006-07-05 05:37:00	Regarding the RAW dialog box that will only pop open if you are to open a RAW file from Photoshop - File - Open (the menu). If you do not see it then you need to update PS CS2, the D200 may be more recent than PS CS2. Go to adobe.com and go to PS then updates. Its a few MB in size. How pple should tackle files with dSLRs is to save the original file on the HDD then play around with them. Its not the typical approach to open PS first and then open the original files straight off PS. Have you installed the software that came with the camera? I like Nikon View which can be downloaded off the net and its free. It may of been included with Nikon Picture Project. If you install one of those it may be able to streamline your process easier, that when you hook up the cam or place mem card in reader Nikon Transfer will pop up .. it will open the files in a unaltered state to the HDD and provide a unique folder each time you do it. Then you can play around with it ..... Regarding the error you are getting, its a bit bizzarre. All the dumb cam does is really copy the file to the HDD then open it, and PS saves it as any format and then that any format should be able to opened up in PS, not all formats can be opened with IE. Be it if you download onto PC or browse via its removable HDD via My Computer or even if you went straight to PS and click open and browse to G drive (or whereever it maybe) and open that file...... All I could think of is a window issue that maybe PS trying to do something and the camera tying to something and some kind of conflict.	Nomad (952)
468693	2006-07-05 06:06:00	Have you been making filenames like "5 . 4 . 6 . 7 . 8" ? Not a Good Idea in Windows . Real operating systems don't use the " . " for anything . . . it's just another character . In DOS, it's a separator . The part of the name before the " . " is the name, and the bit after it is the extension, which the system looks at to know what sort of file it is . If there is more than one ' . ' in the filename, but it seems to take the last bit of the thing as the filetype . This might explain how renaming worked for you . You probably have hidden extensions . . . "snow1" was actually "snow1 . jpg" (e . g . ), and renaming it carried over the correct extension . If you "saved as", the system took the last "something" you types as the extension . That's why it doesn't know what application produced the files . It doesn't know about filetypes of "4" or "8" . I'd use "_" rather than the " . " . You'll find it behaves much better .	Graham L (2)
468694	2006-07-05 08:51:00	I concur with Graham . I tried Photoshop CS2 on my computer and I got the same error . Do not use fullstop in your filename . Adobe does not warn users, in other words they do not say "sorry, please use a different filename without the fullstops" . It simply just saves the file and lets you via, then at a later stage you find that you can't open the files :dogeye: This is what I did . I opened up PS CS2 . Then I opened up a JPG file . Then I saved the file as 1 . 1 . jpg . I closed the file and tried to reopen it, Adobe will not open it saying cannot complete request because its not the right kind of document . I tried to open the file in Windows Explorer - again cannot . I looked at the filename and instead of 1 . 1 . jpg it has been saved as 1 . 1 with no extension . There was nothing wrong with your workflow, just do not use fullstops, I have always used underscore . Via anywhere like My Computer or Windows Explorer if you right click and rename the file to like 1 . jpg . The file will be saved and can function . :thumbs: Yes if you choose properties the file will be defined as "1 file" for type of file . Opens with "Uknown application" . N .	Nomad (952)
468695	2006-07-05 10:27:00	i've had digicams for about 10 yrs - never transferred photos like this. simply copy & paste. make copies to the other pc, then the ext hd, then start playing around. renaming each photo? never. rename a folder? - yes everytime. am teaching a lot of elderly & non-computer people digicam basics - kiss	quarry (252)
468696	2006-07-05 11:47:00	If you want to keep the files and folders in date order use; 2006-07-05 for the folder then 2006-07-05-001.jpg 2006-07-05-002.jpg etc. This will allow you to easily keep track in date order.	Rob99 (151)
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