Need help!

[michaela_wilkes1]

<p>Just purchased a Canon 50 D and still have yet to be able to download any RAW images into PSE7. Finally after trying all day, I contacted Canon to see if I was doing anything wrong. Come to find out, 50D isnt compatible with PSE7, only CS4 and higher. UGH! I wish I had researched this before I bought this camera. I have a digital photo professional that I can process my raw images. Does anyone out there know any way around this? I really dont want to drop a $1000 on software right after buying the camera. Also, what version of CS4 is best? I maainly do portraits, sports shots and the occasional wedding! Thanks in advance for any help you may have!</p>

<p>Michaela</p>

[enrique_bocanegra]

<p>just convert to 16 or 8 bit tiff 300dpi in dpp and open in elements. DPP is free comes with the 50D and has the best standalone RAW converter for .cr2 files.</p>

[clark_king4]

<p>That sounds funny do you have the newest version of Adobe Camera Raw? </p>

[clark_king4]

<p>I had the same problem with my 5d mkII in CS4 but I only needed to dl the newest version of ACR.</p>

[michaela_wilkes1]

<p>If i convert it into a tiff, will it open in PSE as a raw picture, Enrique? I have downloaded the latest of everything on Canon.</p>

[philip_wilson]

<p>Older versions of elements do not work with newer versions of ACR - this is the way Adobe gets you to upgrade.</p>

[martin-s]

<p>I'm not familiar with PSE7, but I suspect, it supports the DNG format. In that case you could download Adobe's <a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/dng/">free DNG Converter</a> to convert your Raw files and in turn open them in PSE7.</p>

[martin-s]

<p>"If i convert it into a tiff, will it open in PSE as a raw picture..."</p>

<p>No, a Tiff isn't a RAW, although it has been suggested, that 16-bit Tiffs are comparable regarding the amount of data contained. However they are <strong>a lot bigger</strong> than DNGs, which, on the other hand, will open as RAWs. Look at DNG as a non-proprietary RAW format.</p>

[wgpinc]

<p>You need to download Canon Camera Raw 5.6 from the Adobe web site. Then copy the 32 bit version of the camera raw plug-in into C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop Elements 7.0\Plug-Ins Copy the version of the plug-in in the folder to another folder to keep it in case your new version messes something up. I just did this for my 5D Mark II. You may want to use a card reader to copy/move your files to your computer and then work on them with DPP or Your improved (Raw 5.6) Photoshop Elements 7. Good luck. If you need more help with this email me but this is pretty easy to figure out.</p>

[j_smith6]

<p>AFAIK unfortunately you won't be able to use new Camera Raw (the one which works with 50D) since it's blocked in older versions. That's the way adobe tries to make you to upgrade. You could transform 50D's raw images to a more popular extension using canon's software (e.g. DPP and convert them to *.tiff or *.jpg).</p>

<p>There might be one more way around the problem. Adobe has it's own raw extension called *.dng (digital negative). The converter is free to download from here: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4620</p>

<p>What you need to do is download the converter, convert your canon *.cr2 files to *.dng and process them normally as raw files in photoshop.</p>

<p>Here is more information about "Digital Negative": http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4620</p>

<p>I forgot about one more thing: you also need to change preferences in "(4)" to "Camera Raw 2.4 and later"</p>

[lester_wareham]

I would try the DPP, it has a lot of good features particularly lens aberation corrections if you are a big user of zooms. DPP

is a little slower to use if editing large number of files but the Adobe upgrade policy has very much *****ed me off too.

[scott_ferris]

<p>Martin TIFF's can be RAW files, it just depends on the camera and the program. Both 1D and 1Ds MkI's RAW files are TIFF's natively.</p>

[swilson]

<p>Something does not sound right here, I have no problem opening raw files from my 50D in PSE 6, I can't believe that version 7 would not be able to open them.</p>

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[martin-s]

<p>According to the chart on <a href="http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/407/kb407110.html">this Adobe page</a> , ACR 5.6 works under in PSE7. The 50D has been supported since v. 4.6, so you should be able to open your RAWs just fine.<br>

The document also outlines various trouble-shooting steps, that might prove helpful.</p>