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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Adobe Lightroom Q&A => Topic started by: stevecoleccs on July 27, 2009, 11:39:23 am

Title: LR opens RAW as RAW & not TIFF
Post by: stevecoleccs on July 27, 2009, 11:39:23 am

Hi Everyone - sitting here pulling my hair out - I'm editing my .CR2 or DNG raw files in Lightroom (2.1 ACR 5.2) but when I Apple -E an image, it opens up in Photoshop as a RAW extinsion, not a TIFF - Bridge does the same thing, any help?

Title: LR opens RAW as RAW & not TIFF
Post by: digitaldog on July 27, 2009, 11:47:46 am

Quote from: stevecoleccs

Hi Everyone - sitting here pulling my hair out - I'm editing my .CR2 or DNG raw files in Lightroom (2.1 ACR 5.2) but when I Apple -E an image, it opens up in Photoshop as a RAW extinsion, not a TIFF - Bridge does the same thing, any help?

That's normal behavior. Once you actually SAVE the document, you're set. And BTW, it can't open it as "raw" since you've not got a rendered RGB image, in memory, awaiting you to save it as some file format (TIFF, JPEG, PSD). Until Photoshop can read our minds, it can't pop an extension into the name in this dialog.

Title: LR opens RAW as RAW & not TIFF
Post by: stevecoleccs on July 27, 2009, 11:51:12 am

Quote from: digitaldog

That's normal behavior. Once you actually SAVE the document, you're set. And BTW, it can't open it as "raw" since you've not got a rendered RGB image, in memory, awaiting you to save it as some file format (TIFF, JPEG, PSD). Until Photoshop can read our minds, it can't pop an extension into the name in this dialog.

Thanks for replying - what ever happen to the Dialog box after you Select an image, Apple-E the image & a dialog box comes up & ask if you want to "Edit the Original, or Edit an Copy" etc....

Title: LR opens RAW as RAW & not TIFF
Post by: digitaldog on July 27, 2009, 11:54:31 am

Quote from: stevecoleccs

Thanks for replying - what ever happen to the Dialog box after you Select an image, Apple-E the image & a dialog box comes up & ask if you want to "Edit the Original, or Edit an Copy" etc....

Not sure what dialog you refer to. Once you set how you want your preset for Export To Application (i.e. 16-bit, ProPhoto etc), that's what you get. No need for a dialog.

Title: LR opens RAW as RAW & not TIFF
Post by: john beardsworth on July 27, 2009, 12:12:11 pm

Quote from: stevecoleccs

Thanks for replying - what ever happen to the Dialog box after you Select an image, Apple-E the image & a dialog box comes up & ask if you want to "Edit the Original, or Edit an Copy" etc....

You only get it when you edit a TIF or PSD file.

John