HELP!! Photos won't open?

[photomom2008]

Yesterday I took some photos for a friend of mine, I decided I was going to use RAW and Manual settings for all of them. I went to dowload them in my computer and my disc space is full. Apparently my hard drive is full. I am working on that. But when I tried to send my photo from my Canon software to Photo shop CS3 it says "encoding failed" I cannot seem to open the photos in CS3. Any suggestions would be helpful. I know there has to be a way but I cannot figure it out.
Thank you,
Heather

[Doug Pardee]

CS3 came out long before the XSi existed. It doesn't know how to make sense of the sensor data from an XSi.

If you had CS4, you could download an update to Adobe Camera Raw that includes the information about the XSi. But Adobe's policy is that they don't provide updates for previous versions—you'll have to upgrade to CS4 if you want to have Photoshop convert your XSi Raw files.

Otherwise, you'll have to do a separate conversion step first, converting your Raw files to DNG, TIFF, or JPEG before you can work on them in Photoshop. A lot of people find DPP (Digital Photo Professional, software that came with your camera) to be a good way of doing that.

[photomom2008]

Originally Posted by Doug Pardee

CS3 came out long before the XSi existed. It doesn't know how to make sense of the sensor data from an XSi.

If you had CS4, you could download an update to Adobe Camera Raw that includes the information about the XSi. But Adobe's policy is that they don't provide updates for previous versions—you'll have to upgrade to CS4 if you want to have Photoshop convert your XSi Raw files.

Otherwise, you'll have to do a separate conversion step first, converting your Raw files to DNG, TIFF, or JPEG before you can work on them in Photoshop. A lot of people find DPP (Digital Photo Professional, software that came with your camera) to be a good way of doing that.

Oh my...that was not the answer I wanted! LOL! I have DPP but haven't used it alot. I guess I am going to have to work with it and learn how to covert the picture to jpeg. So my thoughts would be that I would adjust the exposure, white balance if needed in DPP and then switch it to jpeg then download to CS3?? or would I be better off shooting in jpeg to begin with? This is a bummer because I just got CS3 and was excited about it, and I just started taking pictures in RAW and was excited about it to, because I thought you got better quality and resolution shooting in RAW. Thank you for helping me though, I do appreciate that otherwise who knows how long I would have sat here trying to figure it out.

[SandeeWig]

Originally Posted by photomom2008

Oh my...that was not the answer I wanted! LOL! I have DPP but haven't used it alot. I guess I am going to have to work with it and learn how to covert the picture to jpeg. So my thoughts would be that I would adjust the exposure, white balance if needed in DPP and then switch it to jpeg then download to CS3?? or would I be better off shooting in jpeg to begin with? This is a bummer because I just got CS3 and was excited about it, and I just started taking pictures in RAW and was excited about it to, because I thought you got better quality and resolution shooting in RAW. Thank you for helping me though, I do appreciate that otherwise who knows how long I would have sat here trying to figure it out.

I shoot in RAW and use DPP to either edit directly and save as JPG or transfer to PS CS2 for additional editing.

You can see raw files in DPP; there is a tool called "Transfer to Photoshop" which automatically converts your raw file to a TIFF for editing. Once in PS, you can do your edits and save as JPG (you'll have to change it from a 16-bit to a 8-bit image before JPG will be a save option though).

This is how I process all my images at the moment. Let me know if you have any other questions.

[LoveDSLR]

Originally Posted by photomom2008

Yesterday I took some photos for a friend of mine, I decided I was going to use RAW and Manual settings for all of them. I went to dowload them in my computer and my disc space is full. Apparently my hard drive is full. I am working on that. But when I tried to send my photo from my Canon software to Photo shop CS3 it says "encoding failed" I cannot seem to open the photos in CS3. Any suggestions would be helpful. I know there has to be a way but I cannot figure it out.
Thank you,
Heather

According to Adobe Raw converter 4.6 (last converter for CS3) readme, Canon XSi is supported.

Below is a complete list of supported cameras and raw formats included in Camera Raw 4.6.

Digital Negative (DNG) raw file format:

Canon (partial list):
EOS-1D
EOS-1Ds
EOS-1D Mark II
EOS-1D Mark II N
EOS-1Ds Mark II
EOS-1D Mark III
EOS-1Ds Mark III
EOS 5D
EOS 10D
EOS 20D
EOS 20Da
EOS 30D
EOS 40D
EOS 50D
EOS D30
EOS D60
EOS 300D (Digital Rebel/Kiss Digital)
EOS 350D (Digital Rebel XT/EOS Kiss Digital N)
EOS 400D (Digital Rebel XTi/EOS Kiss Digital X)
EOS 450D (Digital Rebel XSi/EOS Kiss X2)
EOS 1000D (Digital Rebel XS/EOS Kiss F)

[Doug Pardee]

Originally Posted by LoveDSLR

According to Adobe Raw converter 4.6 (last converter for CS3) readme, Canon XSi is supported.

Ach. I got confused with the T1i, which is what everyone's complaining about these days (as far as not being able to process Raws in Photoshop).

So yes, downloading and installing the Adobe Camera Raw 4.6 update should do the trick.

[douglas]

Another alternative is to download the freestanding ,and free version of UFRaw...just a thought

[photomom2008]

Thank you everyone for your help. I finally got the picture to dowload to photoshop using the "convert & save" then save to jpeg. I could not get the "transfer to photoshop" to work for the raw photos. I still am not sure why. I did notice that when the raw photo is changed to jpeg and in photoshop the resolution of the picture is not as good, it looks grainy. When I shoot in jpeg and dowload to photoshop this does not happen. I am not sure why on that either. If anyone one has suggestions that would be helful. Thanks again for everyone's help! I really do appreciate it. Here is a couple of the photos I took in Raw and edited and saved. You might be able to see the graininess in the photo. Otherwise I didn't think they turned out to bad for being the first Manual shots taken in RAW.

From Ashley

From Ashley

[SandeeWig]

Originally Posted by photomom2008

Thank you everyone for your help. I finally got the picture to dowload to photoshop using the "convert & save" then save to jpeg. I could not get the "transfer to photoshop" to work for the raw photos. I still am not sure why. I did notice that when the raw photo is changed to jpeg and in photoshop the resolution of the picture is not as good, it looks grainy. When I shoot in jpeg and dowload to photoshop this does not happen. I am not sure why on that either. If anyone one has suggestions that would be helful. Thanks again for everyone's help! I really do appreciate it. Here is a couple of the photos I took in Raw and edited and saved. You might be able to see the graininess in the photo. Otherwise I didn't think they turned out to bad for being the first Manual shots taken in RAW.

How strange that it won't transfer for you. I know mine takes a while sometimes, especially if it has to open photoshop, but it'll say "Please wait" or something while doing it.

Given the poor quality of converting to jpg then using photoshop (I think I've noticed that before as well)...maybe try convert & save to TIFF in DPP, then open in PS. TIFF files are of higher quality, but are large in size. So, if this process makes a better end result jpg, you may want to delete the tiff file once you've processed it in PS, just to save space.

Note: this is not a tested theory, but may be worth trying.

I like the images you posted. Both are nice compositions, especially the first.