Photoshop CS vs. Camera Raw 3.3.

March 8, 2006 9:08 PM

Photoshop CS vs. Camera Raw 3.3. Is there a way to make it fly?

I have Photoshop CS (not CS2, which would solve everything) and want to open camera raw files created by the newer Canon cameras. The Raw plugin from Adobe requuires CS2. Is there a 3rd party solution, or a cheap trick that will save me?

posted by cccorlew to technology (9 comments total)

Platform/OS?
posted by unSane at 9:10 PM on March 8, 2006

You can use the plugins with Irfanview, and there's certainly the software that comes with Canon cameras - depending on your camera, including EOS Viewer, DPP, etc. All free.
posted by kcm at 9:18 PM on March 8, 2006

Mac OS has RAW decoders for most digicams built into the OS these days. I think iPhoto uses them. You can integrate iPhoto with CS pretty easily.

(don't know your platform, hence earlier question)
posted by unSane at 9:23 PM on March 8, 2006

Will converting them to DNG work for you? If so you can download the converter (which uses the latest Raw update) and just shunt everything into DNG. IThe DNG format is pretty awesome, in my experience.
posted by Brian James at 9:39 PM on March 8, 2006

Whoops. Brain fart. I'm Mac OS X 10.3.9
posted by cccorlew at 9:44 PM on March 8, 2006

I think if you simply upgrade to Tiger, iPhoto will convert all this stuff for you. You can then open it up in CS by setting the 'edit with' preference in iPhoto. Nice!

(and you should upgrade to Tiger anyway for lots of other reasons IMO).
posted by unSane at 9:46 PM on March 8, 2006

Brian James's suggestion is what I did when I was in this boat.

Download the latest Adobe DNG Converter (same place you got ACR 3.3). Use it to convert the Canon raw files to Adobe DNG raw files.

Open those DNGs in Adobe Photoshop CS with ACR 2.0 or whatever it is that CS supports. A bit of a hassle, to be sure, but workable, and gives you the full raw workflow in PS CS (you can even have DNG Convertor embed the original Canon raw in the DNG, so that you don't have to keep track of two files for archival purposes).
posted by teece at 9:51 PM on March 8, 2006

Thanks all. The Adobe DNG Converter is going to work for me!
Thanks also for reminding of the the always amazing Graphic Converter!
posted by cccorlew at 9:15 AM on March 9, 2006

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