CS2 and Bridge - how they display NEF

[darb]

Hi Guys,

My apologies if this is an amateur question, but just quickly ... if / when I use bridge to view my NEF's, it seems to apply the "auto" everything that ACR does by default.

Likewise if i open a NEF into CS2, by default it shows "auto" ticked in every column ... i need to manually untick them all to actually get back to the image as it was exposed (often it adds +3ev and does crazy things to brightness, contrast etc))

My automatic actions / scripts in CS2 know to turn that off when im doing a batch process ... but when im just browsing through 100 or so NEF's and doing a cull after a long shoot, id like to see them as they are, not as ACR auto-guess.

Any useful tips on this one? Winblows Explorer doesnt seem to do it. However its slow and cumbersome to use as a quick viewer and culling nefs.

[LostDingo]

there are some good experts on here (and I am not one) but I'm pretty confident there is a setting in Bridge to adjust for this

[darb]

bingo, i think ;

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/usin ... _tips.mspx

funny that a MS site gives tips on an adobe product. point 9 and 10 seem useful, will try now.

edit : bit of fiddling, have got it. Will leave thread here for future searching.

[Willy wombat]

I have the same problem - i use the ctrl + U to remove the auto ticks all at once.

[beetleboy]

The link beat me to it!

You need to save your Camera Raw Defaults. I have a nice little s-curve saved as part of my defualt settings so I only ever need to tweak WB and exp.; very rarely adding a bit of contrast and saturation.

Using this you can also tell the files (in Workflow Options) to process at 300dpi rather than the random 240dpi they often get assigned!!

Liam =]

[darb]

cheers