Hello!
So I recently received my Nikon D3100; it's my first DSLR and I'm a complete beginner in photography but love it as a hobby. Anyways I took a few sample shots with the camera and I choose to shoot them in "Image Quality: NEF (RAW) files". I have Abode Photoshop CS4 and know the basics to it, but it wouldn't let me open the NEF files. So I did some research and people were saying that NEF is Nikon's version of RAW and you can only open it in ViewNX 2, but is there someway of converting it or opening it without degrading the image into Photoshop CS4? I love CS4 and am completely comfortable using it, thus I'd prefer using that over ViewNX 2.
Also some people suggested converting the files into JPEG/TIFF, would that be a poor decision? One of my friends is a amateur photography and he told me "if you using a DSLR, ONLY shoot in RAW" and overall photographers prefer/use RAW over other file types.
Thanks! The help would be much appreciated, again I'm a noob to photography so any extra help would be nice as well!
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So I recently received my Nikon D3100; it's my first DSLR and I'm a complete beginner in photography but love it as a hobby. Anyways I took a few sample shots with the camera and I choose to shoot them in "Image Quality: NEF (RAW) files". I have Abode Photoshop CS4 and know the basics to it, but it wouldn't let me open the NEF files. So I did some research and people were saying that NEF is Nikon's version of RAW and you can only open it in ViewNX 2, but is there someway of converting it or opening it without degrading the image into Photoshop CS4? I love CS4 and am completely comfortable using it, thus I'd prefer using that over ViewNX 2.
Also some people suggested converting the files into JPEG/TIFF, would that be a poor decision? One of my friends is a amateur photography and he told me "if you using a DSLR, ONLY shoot in RAW" and overall photographers prefer/use RAW over other file types.
Thanks! The help would be much appreciated, again I'm a noob to photography so any extra help would be nice as well!
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