Raw Thumb Nail Images

[Jon.P]

Help Still Very Much A PSE5 Novice. Can Somebody Please Assit Me.When Transfering Images From Memory Card Into PSE5 Taken In Raw They Are Visable in The Organizer,But As Soon As I Look IN My Pictures All I See Are A Grey Box With A Picture Of A Camara On it With A kdc Prefix. If I Adjust An Image IN Full Edit I Get Much The Same But This Time I Get psd And Still No Thumbnail Image.Can Somebody Please Help Me As Running Out Of Hair To Pull Out Jon

[Juergen D]

Jon,

If you are running Windows XP, you have to download the RAW Image Thumbnailer and Viewer (Microsoft PowerToys) to be able to view the RAW thumbnails: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

This will not help with the PSD thumbnails. That would be a bit more complicated since it involves a registry change. You can take a look at this thread and decide: http://www.photoshopelementsuser.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10638

Juergen

[Jon.P]

Juergen. Many thanks for the link are you able to tell me if the prog covers my camara which at present is a kodak p850.I allready have a couple of Raw taken.And have just downloaded the link and i still cannot view the thumbnails i dont know if i am doing something wrong.Since downloading it i havent rebooted the pc do i need to before it takes effect.Many thanks jon

[Jon.P]

Sorry yes i am running windows xp

[Chuck S.]

I believe the RAW thumbnail viewer only covers Nikon and Canon cameras. Not sure of that, but as I was downloading it after Juergen's kind suggestion, I saw CRW, CR2, and NEF mentioned...

[Juergen D]

Your Kodak may not be supported. The RAW thumbnailer has been around for some time and apparently was never updated. It seems to mostly support Canons and Nikons. Sorry.

Juergen

[Jon.P]

Chuck and Juergen Many thanks for you help in this matter.guess its time to upgrade hopefully a late cannon model will work using the aforementioned software thanks again jon

[TonyW]

I don't believe the XP Raw thumbnail viewer ever got updated for later model cameras - it doesn't work for my D80 for example and I recall seeing threads saying it didn't work for D40's either. You have to have Vista now I believe to get a Windows Raw Thumbnail viewer for later model cameras.

Tony

[jlwilm]

I tried out the Microsoft thumbnail viewer and found it didn't work for my Canon 30D.

Went looking and found a free download from Arcsoft that does work with Windows XP and my Canon 30D RAW images.

Link is here:

Click here (http://www.arcsoft.com/products/rawviewer/)

[Juergen D]

Thanks, John. I am glad to see that there is something more up-to-date around than the PowerToys thumbnailer.

Juergen

[Hibe]

I don't believe the XP Raw thumbnail viewer ever got updated for later model cameras - it doesn't work for my D80 for example and I recall seeing threads saying it didn't work for D40's either. You have to have Vista now I believe to get a Windows Raw Thumbnail viewer for later model cameras.

Tony

I have XP and a D40. I have no trouble veiwing RAW thumbnails, but I get a black border at the top and bottom of the thumbnail. I used to shoot and have my camera record in both JPG and RAW, but don't any more in order to save space (mainly on my computer). I thought it would be more convenient if I wanted to burn and give a CD to someone else. It is, but I rather have the space on my hard drive instead.

[Jon.P]

Many thanks, to everybody for there assistance in my raw thunbnail image problems.Have now ditched microsoft thumbnail.Special thanks to John for posting the arcsoft link which i have downloaded and it works a treat with my kodak .Many thanks again jon