Thanks, Dan.
I may have already discovered the problem of tif opening. It's possible that it was an incorrect setting within the Bridge preference setting. Unfortunately I'm now encountering some difficulties with Bridge; the "Online services encountered error..." issue seems to have put a stop to ...

Thank you, Dan. And, I apologize for my poorly written sentence. Upon first reading I too could hardly understand it. Replace "on" to "the" and it makes more sense.
Regardless, your suggestion did work. Image icons that previously refused to show anything but the Helicon FILTER icon, whoever I ...

Default may be an improper description. In Window Explorer I try to set images to open in Photoshop which usually puts the photoshop icon when viewing in Windows Explorer. However I may set on image to open, the helicon icon remains.

Another problem I'm experiencing that may be related is that I ...

Question to JPS: I'm trying to resolve an issue as you experienced, "shadowed" images. Your last post indicated a resolution. Was this just chance, or did you do something to tweak the HF program?

I'm a newbie with H-Forcus. Trying it out on some wildflower photos I have a problem with double images most likely created by the software using the sharper image in the final processed image but not discarding it when "focusing" in on images of other focal distances. There may have been a slight ...