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1. Hobotor,

Apr 10, 2012 5:32 AM in reply to Nikon D800 RAW

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You need to use correct color profiles.When you open your photo in acr, set it to adobe RGB or Prophoto RGB. I'm too lazy to explain all, but just google "color profiles" and read up on it, because this is really basic stuff.

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2. Curt Y,

Apr 10, 2012 6:43 AM in reply to Nikon D800 RAW

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Nikon D800 RAW wrote:

I see a significant drop of image quality when RAW s are opened in CS5. The images looking stunning with in D800 display screen looks very dull and flat when opened in CS5. No where close to the brillient colors shown in the D800 preview. Has anyone expirenced this, please?

The image you see in the display screen of the camera is a jpeg image (cameras can not display raw image).

And yes this is a common problem, as the raw image is just that, raw. You have to adjust your settings in ACR to reflect your tastes and then set that as the default setting.

This website may help you get your settings correct. http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/cr-auto.shtml

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3. wfmcgrath3,

Apr 10, 2012 6:51 AM in reply to Hobotor

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RAW files do not have a color space associated with them. It's only when you create JPG or TIFF files that the RAW data is converted to a color space. When you open a NEF in ACR, apply whatever adjustments you want, then pass it along to Photoshop, the color space conversion that you select at the bottom of the screen is applied to the exported file.

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4. Hobotor,

Apr 10, 2012 7:28 AM in reply to wfmcgrath3

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I know that raw files don't have a colorspace associated with them, that's why I said he needs to apply a correct color space setting in the acr dialog box. But thanks anyway

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5. Noel Carboni,

Apr 10, 2012 7:45 AM in reply to Nikon D800 RAW

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It's probably worth saying that the Photoshop defaults are not likely to match the in-camera color (though you can make them very close if you use the right camera profile during the conversion and tweak the sliders).

-Noel

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6. Nikon D800 RAW,

Apr 10, 2012 9:06 AM in reply to Nikon D800 RAW

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Hi All,

Thanks for the replys.

I'm aware of the quality of the RAW file in CS5 when its opened for the first time (before processing) as I used Nikon D5000 bofore the D800. But I havent expirence this level of quality drop with the RAW file coming from D5000. Thats the very reson I posted the question.

I'll try the options given by you and get-back.

Cheers

Deepal

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7. Curt Y,

Apr 10, 2012 9:25 AM in reply to Nikon D800 RAW

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Another thing to consider is the in appears ACR for D800 is not ready yet until the next dot release of ACR7. Which would require CS6 or converting to a DNG format.

Here is previous post that discusses this. http://forums.adobe.com/thread/987252?tstart=30

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8. gator soup,

Apr 10, 2012 9:52 AM in reply to Nikon D800 RAW

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"significant drop of image quality" appears to be a mere profile issue — easily proven if Assigning the correct profile pops the quality back

try this: Open your degaded file in Photoshop:

Edit> Assign Profile: sRGB

Edit> Assign Profile: Adobe RGB

Edit> Assign Profile: Apple RGB

Edit> Assign Profile: ProPhoto RGB

Edit> Assign Profile: Monitor Profile

Possibly setting your Color Management Polices like this (Edit> Color Settings) would close the back door on this problem

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9. msabeln,

Apr 10, 2012 12:06 PM in reply to Nikon D800 RAW

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You may want to use Nikon's own View NX2 program, which is a free download, to do your RAW conversions in the meantime. You can create a 16 bit image in any ICC profile, and read that into Photoshop.

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