Need help with 'black' pics after processing !!

Took some pics in RAW - opened Lightroom and did some minor adjustments.... clicked "Edit in Photoshop" and the pic opened in CS3 - did some more minor editing and "Saved As" a .TIFF image..

The Photo thumbnail then appears totally black in the folder.. It'll open, but the pic is black.. No image at all...

I opened Faststone Image Viewer - went to the directory - all my RAW images are there, but the ones I worked on in LR and CS3 are ... Black. They have different sizes .... 14,022; 16,452; 9,057.. so theres something there.. I tried to convert to JPEG - worked, but images are still black - 81KB, 55 KB, 102 KB..

Uploaded one of them to my Flickr account ...... uploaded, but is .. black.

I haven't lost anything, as I still have the RAW image (except a couple of hours editing ) - but I need some help with this one..

1. - why the black images, and what can I do ??

2. - Is there a way I can save the image from Photoshop as a JPEG instead of a TIFF JPEG isn't an option when I 'save as' ...

Thanks,

r

Change the image to 8 bits from 16 bits by selecting "Image > Mode > 8 Bits/Channel" from the menu (do this after editing, not before) and you'll be able to save as a JPEG.

For the images you already edited, open the TIFFs in Photoshop then convert to 8 bits, and you should be able to save as a JPEG with all your edits.

stsva wrote in post #11088361
Change the image to 8 bits from 16 bits by selecting "Image > Mode > 8 Bits/Channel" from the menu (do this after editing, not before) and you'll be able to save as a JPEG.

For the images you already edited, open the TIFFs in Photoshop then convert to 8 bits, and you should be able to save as a JPEG with all your edits.

Really appreciate that !! It's exactly what I needed..... is there a preferences setting where I dont have to change to 8 bits on each photo? It'd be preferable to have that as the default...

thanks again...

r

ottor wrote in post #11091660
Really appreciate that !! It's exactly what I needed..... is there a preferences setting where I dont have to change to 8 bits on each photo? It'd be preferable to have that as the default...

thanks again...

r

You should leave it 16 bits while editing, then convert to 8 after that. You can record an action in Photoshop to simplify the conversion. I automated things I do to almost every image at the end of the editing process by recording them in a single action -
1) sharpen the image with smart sharpen at my default settings;
2) convert image to sRGB;
3) convert image to 8 bits.
You can activate an action with a simple keyboard shortcut that you assign to that action.

Yeah, record an action! Alternatively, if you are saving jpegs for things like the Web or email, Save for Web does the "sRGB" thing.

I myself do all I can in the Raw converter, and at times it could be OK to set ACR to 8 bits if and only if you don't need to make serious tonal/exposure/color adjustments. If you can get all those things done in ACR and Photoshop is just applying some "stuff" then yeah, you can get away fine with 8 bits. But an action that like stsva mentions for both the 8 bits and sRGB conversion is a nice quick way to take care of that business in PS so you don't have to switch things around in ACR or worry about messing with an 8 bit image.

I'll add that you can also include a resize step as part of the above action if you are frequently saving for a particular size -- it can be an alternative to Save for Web!