Help needed on RawShooter essentials 2006
 

Hi to all;
I am running RawShooter essentials 2006 on two PCs to view and edit my RAW pictures. No problem with my laptop but on desktop when trying to open a RAW file picture is divided into 4 sections and various colors. Can't do any edition or to combine the component by Channing the parameters.
Anyone with any suggestion as to what is happening?

Sassan I am having the same problems, I can input raw files from my 300D and 350D but not my 30D. It doesn't seem to be reading the files correctly, unfortunately there won't be any updates since adobe took over.

Saphire; The funny thing about my condition is that the same file opens well and is editable on one computer but not on the other. So I may conclude it is not just lack of a plug in etc, and I am suspecting some hardware incompatibility probably. It drives me crazy.

No prob with Nikon, can I suggest the obvoius, is it worth reloading the app?
Chris

Chris I uninstalled and re-installed it 3 times, twice after a fresh download and restarting the windows. No luck here...:(

I do not have a soloution but heing a recant convert to Nikon capture, why dont you try that? I believe it will read any Raw file and jpegs and i believe tiffs to.

Do you have the correct driver in place for your graphics card, try updating it.

nirofo.

Thanks very much ollieholmes. Here is a LINK to anyone else how may be interested. Nikon gives a free trial for one month and expect a $99 for activation thereafter, that I fee too expensive. In fact if I was to pay, probably I would go for "Bibble" that is $69 and very much closer to my favorite Rawshooter.

As Saphire said it, unfortunately this merges of big companies really works agings consumers (And the free products). An almost deja vu is the "Netscape" web navigator that greedy AOL bought it, just to kill it...:eek:

I am terribly sorry for what I hear and condolence to all photographers. Well may be soon you see the true light C O M M I N G T H R O U G H T H E " L " C L A S S glass and we'll see you back where all good photographers should be...You have heard that old stone age idiom "Friends won't let Friends shoot but with Canon"...:D

BTW the Canon's included software "Digital photo professional vr 2.1" does work and let me do the bare necessities with the raw including converting it to jpg but I need to work more on Rawshooter before giving up. Will post any info if get one and mean while thank you guys for your input dearly.

I think you are right on it nirofo. I probably need to flush my BIOS first as this is a rather older model motherbord. Will look the video card update too. THX.

OK to flush the bios I need to boot with update on floppy drive that my PC does not have so temporally this is halted till either I upgrade into a new motherboard cpu (AMD dual core 64) that I just got, or find one floppy to be installed, now looking at kind neighbors trash for an old pc...
BTW while checking of RAW readers I encountered a new software that does enhancement including reading RAW that is in beta version and developer is willing to give full license for those how like to test it LINK.

Hi sassan

Here's a web link for a small utility for creating a boot disk on a CD, also documentation. You'll need to boot your pc direct from this CD, you can put your bios update on it as well. Let me know if it works for you.
http://www.bootdisk.com/mexico/flashcd.zip
http://www.bootdisk.com/txtfiles/flashcd.txt

nirofo.

Thanks nirfo for you kind LINKs.
I did the CD by pressing F8 and trying to boot from CD, didn't work. Will check your link for future use. The good news is:

RAWSHOOTER IS AGAIN WORKING . . . . :)

All I did was to think of the large space temporary files needed in RAW and rather being toward last mega bites of my C hard drive, I decided to uninstall the program, then reinstall it on E (I have 3 hard drives on board) where space was abundant. Then after running fresh install still to my surprise I had the same ugly split blue image I upload above, but after deleting all files from "Preference", then changing the file converted type to jpeg instead of default TIF, and also changing the converted subdirectory to drive E, everything turned to normal. Youppy....
Saphire you may want to try the same. I am convinced that it has nothing to do with 30D now.
:)

LINK TO FREE DOWNLOAD Site if anybody needs.

Thanks Sassan I managed to get it to work with your help. I had to removed all links to the old software which had been put on my boot drive which is only small, cleaned the registry and then re-installed to larger drive. Now it works perfectly. Thanks again.

Christine

You need to enter your bios setup and change the boot up sequence to read from the default CD drive first, then re-boot your computer with the CD in the default CD drive!

Changing the file converted type from TIF to JPEG may well work on face value, JPEG's are smaller files and need much less space on your drive, unfortunately by converting to JPEG you are losing a lot of the original data that your RAW file held. To retain the maximum image quality you need to save your converted RAW files as TIF's, if you then need a JPEG you can save a copy of the original image as a JPEG at the size you require. You need to make a new default folder on one of your drives that has plenty of free space and point Rawshooter to save to this folder in preference.

nirofo.

Sassan I can't remember but is there a crop tool in Rawshooter, I'll be blowed but I can't find one and I could have sworn there was one.

Definatly in the Premium Version.
Chris

Thats a shame I thought it was in the free version as well, you can't get the premium version anymore.

Agree. Nevertheless you can set "Automatically open with" in the Batch convert menu to photoshop so that any time you add any picture, it automatically opens up in PS giving you all the needed and more, edit power.
Set it if not selected before.:)

Thanks for the info Sassan, I already do that I was hopeing to do it all in the one program rather than keep swapping. I do use capture one pro but I find rawshooter is quicker.