Paint Shop Pro support - PSP 8, XI, and Nikon RAW import

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PSP 8, XI, and Nikon RAW import

Garryatunwired

2007-04-11, 10:17 pm

Hi All:

I currently use PSP 8. I want to be able to import Nikon RAW images
(Nikon D80 camera). Should I upgrade to the latest PSP to do this? I'm
reluctant to, given that most here consider PSP 9 the best version (if
i could find 9 I'd get it). If there is way to get Nikon RAW into PSP
8, I'd be glad to hear of it.

Ta,
Garry

Trev

2007-04-12, 6:21 am

"Garryatunwired" <garry.stevens@unwiredaustralia.com.au> wrote in message
news:1176343714.613380.235980@l77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
> Hi All:
>
> I currently use PSP 8. I want to be able to import Nikon RAW images
> (Nikon D80 camera). Should I upgrade to the latest PSP to do this? I'm
> reluctant to, given that most here consider PSP 9 the best version (if
> i could find 9 I'd get it). If there is way to get Nikon RAW into PSP
> 8, I'd be glad to hear of it.
>
> Ta,
> Garry
>
Nikon raw varies from model to model and The latest such as D40 and 80 will
only be opened by the latest update to the latest PSP. You Have Nikon soft
ware to do the conversion. Use that and convert to Tiff having made the
adjustment to White Balance if needed ( I think its dont automatically based
on the thm file with your .Nef)dont overwrite the raw save that as you
Negative But then you can work on the Tiff in PSP.

I use a Minolta with .mrw raw I can open in Minoltas software and in PSP x
But use Prismatic Raw converter that was so good the Adobe bought it to stop
none PS users having it. The default setting give a good conversion 99% of
time then they open in PSP for final enhancement or just cropping, resize
for web or printing.

Some users disliked the way the Browser was incorporated in to PSP x as a
Pallet. This means it will be on top of the workspace when fully opened and
need to be closed or reduced in size to work on images. Of for us lucky ones
with a spear monitor It can be moved on to that and stay open. Other then
that X is good but not a lot different to 9. In XI they again changed the
browser this time to intricate Snapfire, The new name for Album To allow
organizing and browsing in one tool, This was a pain to start with as it was
always scanning the hdd for images to index on start up But there have been
workaround and fixes So I think X1 is now good to use. and each psp after 8
loads faster then the one before Mind 8 was slow.

Fred Hiltz

2007-04-12, 6:21 am

Garryatunwired wrote:
> Hi All:
>
> I currently use PSP 8. I want to be able to import Nikon RAW
> images (Nikon D80 camera). Should I upgrade to the latest PSP
> to do this? I'm reluctant to, given that most here consider
> PSP 9 the best version (if i could find 9 I'd get it). If
> there is way to get Nikon RAW into PSP 8, I'd be glad to hear
> of it.

What Trev says. I'll add a caution to try before you buy, as many
who have written to the Corel newsgroups--I among them--found the
PSP decoding of RAW to be pretty poor. It seems that most serious
users of RAW put a more capable decoder/browser (the one from the
camera manufacturer, Pixamantec, or Lightroom for example) into
their workflow and name PSP as the image editor to be invoked within
that program.

Professionals need good batch decoding of groups of images, for
which the intermediate TIFF file is a good solution.

Both of these workflows can use any PSP version, of course.
--
Fred Hiltz, fhiltz at yahoo dot com