close a single .NEF in Adobe Camera Raw

[katia]

Okay. this is probably something so, so simple it hurts, but i've got to ask because it drives me BANANAS!

i shoot in RAW + JPEG FINE because i take a lot of snapshot-y photos related to my snakes & other reptiles. those are photos i don't want to have to convert from NEF, i'd rather just have the jpegs there, to quickly throw on Facebook.

SO, i have a folder called .NEF To Be Sorted. naturally these are photos i *may* process. i want to be able to open them all up in Adobe Camera Raw, and process the ones i wish to process.

is there a way to dismiss single files? if i click Done, it just closes everything. if i click Cancel, it also closes everything.

so what the heck? how can i get rid of the ones that i don't want to process?

[kcoppock]

Not that I'm aware of. My workaround is to just mark my rejects as one-star, and after I've finished going through, delete all the one-star images, then process what remains.

[milosh]

Open Adobe Bridge, navigate to your .nef folder. Press Ctrl+B (or Command+B for Mac, I suppose). Then, you'll see all the files in high enough resolution and on a carousel. If you want to leave a photo, just click the next one. If you want to reject a photo, simply grab it with your mouse and quickly drag it down, outside the carousel. When you're finished, click the X button or press Esc and you'll be taken back to Bridge. There, all the files you rejected will be no more selected, and the ones you've kept will be selected. Then just copy/cut them to a new folder, or you can invert the selection (Ctrl+Shift+i) and delete the rejected ones.

[katia]

i don't like Bridge :P

[kcoppock]

Yeah, I'm normally iffy on Bridge myself, but I'm still on CS2. I've been playing around with the trial of Bridge that comes with Photoshop CS5.1, and it's actually pretty good.

[milosh]

I find the Bridge to be the fastest way to select and preview my raw files for editing.

[OsmosisStudios]

Apple has a quickview system that reads RAW (click file, press spacebar). I go through them like that noting the file numbers. I then only open those file numbers.

[DanielLane]

Bridge rocks! It's always the first thing I open. The best thing is that you can view all you files in there and even do your raw processing in there with out ever opening photoshop if you want. I do the same thing as Milosh does to select the ones I want, then when they are all highlighted, I hit Command+R (control+R for PC) and it opens them up in the photo raw tools built into bridge. They are the same tools as PS.