STLnikon wrote
I shot a group of photos. Some I did RAW+JPEG, the others were JPEG. I imported them into Lightroom. I do get NEF+JPEG for the photo "pairs" and only JPG for the single shots n the Grid view. All well and good. But if I select a photo to edit (Lightroom or Photoshop) it defaults to the NEF file. Is there a way to change the default to JPG?
My main import objective is the NEF and JPEG file pairs to have the same name. I primarily work with JPEG but plan to ease into NEF file edition.
Thanks
Not really in LR. If you open PS and then navigate to the folder where you imported the RAW + JPG files you will see the corresponding JPGs and you can open them in PS.
LR actually imports the JPG files and records them in the LR database file (The Catalog File) then hides it from the users view.
There is no way to Reimport them as separate files unless you first remove the RAW files from the LR catalog and set the option as noted below and then reimport both RAW & JPG.
To stop that you need to set the option to Treat JPG files next to RAW files as separate files. Then when importing images that were taken as RAW + JPG on your camera the JPG will show as a separate image in LR.
BUT why would you want to edit the JPG when you have the same shot as a RAW file?