Photoshop 7.00

[Niobe Hennigan]

3Use Adobe Lightroom to "develop" your NEF files. Setup Lightroom to auto generate a matching TIFF or PSD to auto-load in Photoshop for external editing from Lightroom. Lightroom remains the primary photo organizing database.

Option 1) sucks because it doesn't provide any way to store the settings applied while loading the NEF file via ACR. Lightroom on the other hand, basically contains all the functionality of ACR within its develop module. Lightroom stores the "development" settings, and can even store more than one set of "development" settings for a given RAW NEF file. Lightroom has proven to be the photo database tool of choice at the moment for anyone who is the least bit serious about DSLR photography.

So get Adobe Lightroom, read its documentation carefully about configuration: to automate loading files from camera / or NAND media, to automate "development" if desired, to configure it for external editing with photoshop or other editor(s) - including automatically file increment naming and so on. Lightroom also provides excellent features for outputing JPEGS from a "collection" of one or more photos maintained by the Lightroom database. If you have both Nikon and Canon cameras as I do, Lightroom provides a single application that works with most RAW formats, TIFF, PSD, JPEG and so on. It is an unsurpassed way to manage photos at the moment. Lightroom simply rocks.

The last I looked, you could download a copy of Nikonview from Nikonusa.com by providing the serial number of your camera. Nikonview allows you to view NEF files and convert them to JPEGs. It also installs a light version of their Capture converter in Photoshop (displacing ACR in the process).

The free, Adobe DNG converter does not alter the original NEF file. The DNG version is always a copy. IMO, this is the best option short of upgrading to the latest version of Photoshop or using Lightroom.

the only reason to shoot raw files is that you want to process them as raw files. I'd say just shoot JPGs if you don't plan to upgrade your software. Your camera is much newer than PS 7 -- and when you bought it, it was not guaranteed to be compatible with cameras not yet invented (you DID buy it, right -- if so, you are the only one! )

Nikon View is free, and does minimal conversions. NX is the best for picture quality, and there are lots of tools that people like better than NX for convenience, including Lightroom, Bibble, and many more.

3) Get Elements. Latest versions will work with NEF. Latest version of Elements costs about $100. If you are "real" Photoshop user used to actions and some other Photoshop features, Elements might feel limiting.

4) There is other free or inexpensive software such as Picassa which can read NEF files. But I'm not really sure if they actually convert the NEF or just use the embedded jpeg. If you are advanced enough to shoot NEF, you probably don't want to use Picassa anyway.

(2) The DNG converter won't help you. Although you can use it to convert your NEFs to DNGs, you can't then import them into PS7 (DNG compatibility was introduced in one of the ACR 2.x series plugins, and you need at least CS = PS8 to use these).

(3) The Picture Project software that came with the camera will work. The main application allows you to convert to 16-bit tiff, though without true raw adjustments. It also comes with a PS plugin that should work with PS7, allows you to adjust exposure comp and white balance, but is 8-bit only. This plugin is automatically installed if you put Picture Project on a PC that already has Photoshop.

(4) The current View NX software (free download) will also work, though it has no PS plugin. You need to convert to tiff or jpeg (ideally 16-bit tiff) and load this file into PS7 directly. There are minimal raw adjustments in the main application, but you can use the included Picture Control Utility to make other changes (tip: save and backup an untouched copy of each NEF before loading it into View NX - once View NX has saved changes back to a file, it can no longer be used as the Picture Control reference image).

(5) The more sophisticated Capture NX software is not free, though it has recently been bundled with cameras like the D300. It's not the fastest converter available, and would benefit from tighter integration with View NX than it has right now, but does a really good job of handling NEFs (lots of options, high quality conversions, reads camera settings ignored by other converters, uses Nikon's own colour profiles, etc.).

It's like having a permanent history. You can backtrack at any time just like using the history feature of Photoshop except the depth of the history is nearly unlimited and the history is maintained between sessions instead of getting reset each time you restart.

Let's start a bit back. I had a HD failure, they only had a 2TB hard drive available (mine was a 1TB). I had my apps and data cloned over to the new HD. I suspect that something went wrong with the cloning or that during an abrupt shutdown, a file on the registry became corrupted. BTW, Staples guy said 2TB was not the problem. I am not sure what he did, but he said that it was a corrupt file on the registry. He said that he used a way better uninstall tool than provided with my system to ensure all files were GONE. He then reinstalled PS 7.0. I suspect that he was correct to some extent. I have heard that sometimes when you uninstall, not all files get uninstalled. If the evil file in question (LOL) remained corrupted on the registry regardless of using the provided uninstall utility, then reinstalling the application would not work as this file would not be overwritten with the non-corrupted version, but be bypassed in the re-install because, heck the file was already there, wasn't it? Anyway, I don't know what he really did, but I do know that I have to Run as Administrator still and I didn't have to before, but I am not messing with it. Try...a uninstall utility from the manufacturer to get ALL files gone and then try reinstalling....

As to PS 7.0 only working on a 1TB HD... I just looked at my c:\ drive. They either partitioned it or I have a new 1TB drive instead, not a geek. But, based on what I just read about this 1TB/2TB comment, I went back to look at my c:\ properties and funny thing, I have capacity = 983 GB. Given that you can't use all of any drive, I suspect either partitioning or install with cloning to a 1TB hard drive which is what I wanted in the first place, but they didn't have. Thanks for the info... and it was info because I will look at the tech's report, but I highly suspect he didn't mention anything about partitioning or installing of another HD (1TB) as he would invite criticism as to why there was no charge for the effort. He just did what he had to in the background. Thanks for the info, very interesting research I just did.

On the partitioning.... I am not a geek, just used to work with them. If you partition the 2TB hard drive, and end up with e.g. C:\ being 1TB, wouldn't you have another drive listed for the remainder. I know that the recover drive takes up some space. Right now I show c:\ as being 983 GB and D:\ the recovery disc as 26.x GB, all this adds up to 1TB? Did they partition or replace my 1TB storage with yet another HD but this one = 1TB???? Curious all to heck..

If I recall correctly, you can right-click on the photoshop.exe, select Properties from the menu, and from the Compatibility Tab, set it to Windows XP SP3, or try going back to 2000 or 98. Then click OK and try again.

Adobe Photoshop is a raster graphics editor developed and published by Adobe for Windows and macOS. It was originally created in 1987 by Thomas and John Knoll. Since then, the software has become the most used tool for professional digital art, especially in raster graphics editing. Owing to its fame, the program's name has become genericised as a verb (e.g. "to photoshop an image", "photoshopping", and "photoshop contest")[7] although Adobe disapproves of such use.[8]

Photoshop can edit and compose raster images in multiple layers and supports masks, alpha compositing and several color models. Photoshop uses its own PSD and PSB file formats to support these features. In addition to raster graphics, Photoshop has limited abilities to edit or render text and vector graphics (especially through clipping path for the latter), as well as 3D graphics and video. Its feature set can be expanded by plug-ins; programs developed and distributed independently of Photoshop that run inside it and offer new or enhanced features.

Photoshop's naming scheme was initially based on version numbers. However, in October 2002 (following the introduction of Creative Suite branding), each new version of Photoshop was designated with "CS" plus a number; e.g., the eighth major version of Photoshop was Photoshop CS and the ninth was Photoshop CS2. Photoshop CS3 through CS6 were also distributed in two different editions: Standard and Extended. With the introduction of the Creative Cloud branding in June 2013 (and in turn, the change of the "CS" suffix to "CC"), Photoshop's licensing scheme was changed to that of software as a service subscription model. Historically, Photoshop was bundled with additional software such as Adobe ImageReady, Adobe Fireworks, Adobe Bridge, Adobe Device Central and Adobe Camera RAW.

Alongside Photoshop, Adobe also develops and publishes Photoshop Elements, Photoshop Lightroom, Photoshop Express, Photoshop Fix, Adobe Illustrator, and Photoshop Mix. As of November 2019, Adobe has also released a full version of Photoshop for the iPad, and while initially limited, Adobe plans to bring more features to Photoshop for iPad.[9] Collectively, they are branded as "The Adobe Photoshop Family".

Photoshop was developed in 1987 by two brothers, Thomas and John Knoll, who sold the distribution license to Adobe Systems Incorporated in 1988. Thomas Knoll, a Ph.D. student at the University of Michigan, began writing a program on his Macintosh Plus to display grayscale images on a monochrome display. This program (at that time called Display) caught the attention of his brother John, an Industrial Light & Magic employee, who recommended that Thomas turn it into a full-fledged image editing program. Thomas took a six-month break from his studies in 1988 to collaborate with his brother on the program. Thomas renamed the program ImagePro, but the name was already taken.[10] Later that year, Thomas renamed his program Photoshop and worked out a short-term deal with scanner manufacturer Barneyscan to distribute copies of the program with a slide scanner; a "total of about 200 copies of Photoshop were shipped" this way.[11][12]

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