Raw Conversion with ElementsI

Today I went out and took quite a few photos. I brought the camera back and tried to upload them to Elements 5, but it came up as files damaged! I used to shoot in Raw with my Canon 300d and always successfully edited the photos in Elements, but it's just not happening now. Also Adobe doesn't recognise them as Raw files (I know this because I had to upload them to Picassa and then opened the file, after saving it to desktop from Picassa, the file opened then, but no Raw conversion dialog box came up!).

I really am not sure what to do with my raw files, now I can't edit them properly. Also, the files are called NEF files??

Did you install the software that came with your D40? It 'should' install the NEF plu-in for photoshop when it installs (least it did with mine).

If not you may need to download Adobe camera raw plug-in - not sure if you can get it for Elements tho.

Otherwise there is a pretty ok editor that comes with the D40 - think its called pictureperfect?

/Moved to D40 section as it may help other D40 owners/

Many thanks Azz!

I got my camera second hand and didn't get any software with it. I have now downloaded the latest Raw conversion software from the Nikon site though!

Thanks again!