I downloaded the trial of Lightroom to try it out. I'm beginning to hate it. It has given me nothing but problems and totally slows down my work flow. I just imported all the photos from one wedding I shot in jpg(because Cs2 wont open Fuji S5 RAW files). I'm ready to start working on the first photo and it says "the file could not be opened"(along with the rest of them) and so its not letting me adjust exposures, white balance, etc. I kinda need to do this because the wedding was shot in a very, very dark church...at night! I have no idea how to make the "file could not be opened" thing go away. I tried closing lightroom and opening it again and that didn't work. Any help is appreciated!

did you move the files after import? or did you import from the card?

They were imported from the card.

When you imported them, did you copy them to a new location then import them? I have a feeling that maybe lightroom is still trying to find them on the card. When you import them into lightroom, all you are doing is telling lightroom where to find them. It does not actually load them into the program. So, if you did not actually designate a spot for lightroom to copy them to your computer while importing, it just grabbed thumbnails off your card. Now that you want to work on them, it doesn't know where they are, becasue you took the card out of the card reader.

what import settings did you use? import from current location, copy to new folder or move?

if you imported directly from the card & took the card out, the images aren't "there" - that's why they won't open. Copy them to your desktop or wherever you'd like to work on them from & import that, then try to work on them - you can't move the original files if you imported "from current location"

Okay, that makes sense. Thanks Kari and Matt! I have so much to learn about this program.

Also, on a side note... can you get a plug in for CS2 for your fuji files?

Actually Anna, just upgrade your Adobe Raw:

http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/cameraraw.html

That should let you open S5 files.

Fuji S5 RAW files? If I could do that without buying CS3 that would be great but I didn't see anything in the link.

One good reason for upgrading to CS3 is that Adobe don't offer the same kind of support for new formats for older software.

Also, you may want to research if Lightroom and Photoshop can handle the dynamic range of the S5. I never though about that but reading in the Adobe User Forum the question was raised but I haven't found an answer yet.