david_hedley Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 I have several hundred 'raw' images, saved in the Canon .cr2 format. What is the best / easiest way to allow these to be read by Photoshop? TIA, David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david_hedley Posted January 15, 2007 Author Share Posted January 15, 2007 Forgot to add - my version of Photoshop is 6.0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alec_myers Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 Do you have Adobe Camera Raw as part of that? If so, hilight the images you want to convert in ACR, go to Tools->Photoshop->Image Processor... then set the "save as psd" option. You can resize and do other processing at the same time too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cfimages Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 PS 6 doesn't do RAW, AFAIK. You'd need to either upgrade PS to a later version (currently CS2, with CS3 due for release in a few months), or batch process them in Canon DPP (or any other RAW converter) as TIFFs and then run an action in PS6 to save them as PSDs. If you just need them to be read by PS, then the TIFFs will work fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellis_vener_photography Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 Update to Adobe Photoshop Elements 5 (for Windows) or Elements 4 (for Mac OS X ) and use the Elements version Adobe Camera raw (ACR) or try Adobe's Photoshop Lightroom program, which is free while still in beta. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
remco-jan.woldhuis Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 The cheapest way (= for free) is to download DCRAW (Windows, Linux, Mac). There are also some free tools that use DCRAW in a user friendly way like RAWtherapee (Windows only). But if you're not afraid of old fashioned command line tools, DCRAW will do the job. Very easy to do batch jobs. You can create 16 bit TIFF files from your cr2 files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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