Viewing photos taken in raw format

I have just bought a digital SLR camera and I am taking photos in RAW format. The problem is I can't view the photos in elements 10 How do I upgrade

The D3200 was supported in ACR 7.1 which requires PSE11 or later. You can convert the files to the Adobe DNG RAW format with their free DNG Converter to open them in PSE10.
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Neale
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are you sure its not just the way you are viewing the photo? you don't even see noise on the preview in Bridge and when I say preview I mean when zooming into the preview window. My thought process being in PS you are zoomed in more

I have a Sony Alpha a6000 and I took some photos in the raw format and tried to check them

I have a Sony Alpha a6000 and I took some photos in the raw format and tried to check them out in Photoshop but got a error saying that camera raw was out of date with my new camera. Even after updating my Photoshop CS 5 extended with camera raw 6.7 I beleive the exact wording was "camera not supported by the current version of Camera Raw"
Is there another version of Camera raw I can download that will allow this or is my camera just too new for the version of photoshop I have?
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Adobe’s camera support list suggests you need ACR 8.4 or newer:
https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/camera-raw-plug-supported-cameras.html
Your camera is several years newer than the last ACR plug-in CS5 will host.
If you’re not quite sure you want to spend the money for a new PS, then you can download and use the free DNG Converter 8.4 or newer to make DNGs from the ARW files and those DNGs will have enough new information embedded in them for an older ACR plug-in to work with. Of course this is more cumbersome than opening the files natively in PS-CC with the newest ACR plug-in.
The most obvious thing would be to subscribe to the CC Photography Plan and get the current versions of both LR and PS-CC for $10/month. There is a minimum OS requirement of 10.7 or Win 7 currently and maybe 10.8/Win7 for LR6—not sure about the next PS version because Adobe hasn’t publically said as far as I know.
One thing you haven’t seen using only PS-CS5/ACR6.x is that CS6/ACR7 or newer, there is a new toning model that seems superior for most images.

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I need to open my photos for the project I am working on in camera raw format to access the editing options I need. I repeat the same steps but they only open up in that format about half the time. Does anyone have an idea about what I am doing wrong?

Thank you David. Yes, I absolutely agree. It is an amazing resource - especially someone new to it and feeling a little overwhelmed.
They are jpeg photos that have been forwarded to me that I am then trying to Open As in camera raw format so that I can reduce the noise and get them ready to be displayed on a website. What has me bumfuzzled is that sometimes it works perfectly, sometimes it works if I try it a few times in a row and sometimes it just doesn't. ? So I thought there must be a different way to approach the access that I haven't found yet. One thing I thought of since my last post, but haven't had a chance to try, is that I am pulling these files out of my Windows Pictures rather than uploading them to pse first. Do you think that would make a difference?

Viewing photos on Macbook on Ipad

Evening all,
I currently have a macbook 2012, I run lightroom on it with the vast majority of my photos having been taken in RAW format (Nikon/Olympus), to speed up my workflow I store my photos on the mac itself (photo's are backed up on a NAS and desktop drive). My question is if I got an iPad would I be able to view the photos on it? I'm not from a mac background and have never used an ipad so am not sure what it's capable of in this context?
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The link below is to a PDF of the iOS 7 Users Guide. iOS 7 is the operating system used by iPads. Take a look at this guide and especially read the section on how to sync with your computer using iTunes on the computer.
http://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1595/en_US/ipad_user_guide.pdf

Using RAW format

I am the new owner of a Rebel T3i and trying hard to learn all the new things that have happening in photography after a rather lengthy hiatus (~30 years!). There seems to be some consensus that one is further ahead if all the decisions( eg. exposure, color saturation, style, etc.) are made in camera while the picture is being taken. Later adjustments with software would then be minimal touchups. If I record the photo in .JPG format I immediately see the picture as I expect it to be. If I record the photo in .CR2 (RAW) format I am told that information such as style is "noted" and used to show me a preview. I would expect the preview both on the camera LCD screen and on the computer in Lightroom to then be identical to the .JPG preview because it should be using the "noted" information. I can clearly see that there is a difference in the preview of the two formats, with the RAW format usually showing a little more high key! I would like to see the RAW image presented as I manipulated it while taking the picture because I cannot rely on my memory about what I did, but then I want to be able to manipulate such things as the style should I want to improve it (in Lightroom). Also I wonder if the "noted" information is carried through and used by Adobe Camera Raw in the same way as in Digital Photo Professional, or does Adobe lose the information.
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A RAW file is exactly what the camera recorded when the photo was taken (in computer language) and as such is a pure file. NOTHING is altered until you run it through some form of software & create a jpg or tif etc. The reason for this will become very obvious as you progress on the learning journey. Because the camera stored the data exactly as shot you have the opportunity to manipulate it in so many ways over & over again without ever tampering with the original data. That can't be said about a jpg, which has already lost some of the original information as it was processed in camera using software that was built into the camera to do a specific thing to the photo as decided by those who planned & developed that software, BUT they can't possibly know exactly what every photographer wanted to capture, so by having the RAW file stay untouched they've given us the power to override their idea of what we were seeing in our minds when we took the shot.
This may help you understand the idea better.
http://wwwimages.adobe.com/www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/products/photoshop/pdfs/understanding_...
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NEF raw format

I have a Nikon D5200, and I take pictures in the NEF raw format. My Photoshop elements 11 does not seem to recognize this format and will not bring up any photos taken in this format, yet my Nikon supplied software does. I want to use elements 11 is there a work around for this problem.
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Can’t transfer many of my photos— in “JPEG/RAW" format from my iPad Air to my iMac (OS 10.9.5; iPhoto 9.5.1).
As I have done many times before when I travel, I upload photos directly from my camera to my iPad Air, and then later transfer them from my iPad AIR to my iMac.
The photos uploaded just fine to my iPad Air several weeks ago-- but when trying to transfer them to my iMac, I keep getting the following message: “THE FOLLOWING FILE COULD NOT BE IMPORTED. THE FILE IS IN AN UNRECOGNIZED FORMAT.”
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Hello Terence:
Thank you for the suggestion.
I did exactly as you stated trying to import 5 photos from iPad Air into a new iPhoto library - and got the same result.
The message was: "Unreadable Files", followed by the list:
_DSC4918.ARW
_DSC4918.ARW
_DSC4917.ARW
_DSC4917.ARW
_DSC4919.ARW
Not sure what to make of this.
They seem to be on the iPad-- though when the transfer is attempted in iPhoto, no thumbnails show. Each photo is shown as an icon of a photo with "RAW" at the bottom.
Any other help would be appreciated.
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diane

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Hi JinnaWinkas,
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Open the iCloud Control Panel and make sure that you're signed in to the same iCloud account that you're using on your other supported devices.
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I recently purchased a Nikon D3300. I have Photoshop CS5.1 Extended for my PC. I am unable to open pictures taken in RAW format. I downloaded and installed the DNG Converter version 8.6 off the Adobe website. This did not remedy the situation.
Anyone have any suggestions?

You mentioned: I downloaded and installed the DNG Converter version 8.6 . .
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Don't try to select individual files, select the folder instead.

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Fujifilm X-T1 is on the list of cameras with RAW file format supported by Lightroom,
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Camera Raw plug-in | Supported cameras
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Why won't my Adopbe Photoshop Elements 9 recognize RAW photos taken with a Nikon D800?

I've just taken 35 photos with a brand new Nikon D800. Some were taken in FX format and others in DX format but all are RAW. I moved them to a file on an exterior drive and then tried to place them into Elements 9, just as I have been doing since I started using Elements 9. All other photos in Elements 9 are from a Nikon D5000 and D7000. The message Elements is giving me is that the files are broken. Is this camera too new for Elements 9 and do I have to upgrade? I don't have the cash to upgrade to CS4, 5 or 6 and I'm not interested in Elements 10 right now. If an upgrade is required I just may start using Nikon ViewNX 2 that came with the camera. Any and all suggestions/answers/ideas are greatly appreciated!

The D800 is a recent camera.
You would need to use PSE10 to have the correct ACR version.
With PSE9, either you can use your Nikon software to convert to an image file like Tiff or jpeg.
Or you could use the free Adobe dngconverter software to batch convert your NEF files to the Adobe DNG raw format, which PSE9 can read.
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1030798?tstart=0

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Can DVD Studio see photos which were taken using a RAW format. I am having a hard time with iPhoto in the stills Palette. The stills palette is freezing up and I am having a hard time trying to figure out why. Among other things, it might appear that DVD studio pro does not recognize a photo in iPhoto taken with the raw format.

That wouldn't surprise me, as I can't think of any advantage of giving DVDSP a RAW formatted picture.
You would want to modify those RAW pics in Photoshop first, and then scale down to DVD-Video resolution (crop/scale to 720x534 pixels, then scale non-proportionally to 720x480), and then save as PICT or TIFF (no need to save in a compressed format like JPEG as it's going to recompress anyway).
If you do this a lot, you can make a Photoshop action out of it.

Bug exposed when comparing Jpeg and RAW Photos taken with Canon 20D?

I'm using iPhoto 7.1 to manage my photos. My Digital SLR, the Canon 20D, can be set to save photos as both RAW (CR2 files) and Jpeg (JPG files). Both of these files can be imported into iPhoto with no problem.
The problem that I have is that these photos that should be identical, have two major discrepancies.
1. Their resolution are NOT the same. (3504x2332 for CR2, 3504x2336 for JPG)
2. The colors appear different (CR2 appears reddish, JPG appears normal)
Interesting to note: if I export the same CR2 file out of the iPhoto library (export it as Kind='original'), and open it with IrfanView running on Windows 2000, the photo is viewed with the expected resolution of 3504x2336 and the color appears normal (i.e. not reddish).
I'm a new Mac user, and relatively new to digital photography, so any advice or suggestions would be appreciated! I've heard of color profiles and adjustments, but I'm not sure how that works. Perhaps I could be pointed to a HOWTO type document?
Cheers

OK, next RAW files again.
These hold the data the sensor 'saw' when you took the shot together with 'metadata' such as aperture, shutter speed, white balance settings, ISO setting etc - lots of data in fact.
Most programs do not alter RAW files at all - they are the digital negative and should not be altered.
The latest iPhoto treats all newly imported photos in this manner - RAW/JPG or other format. It keeps a copy of the original in a folder called originals, and any edits/crops you make are applied and saved either as a modified JPG or TIFF. This non-destructive editing is a great feature that many RAW editors allow so you can go back to the original image if you mess things up. Applying the principle to JPGs etc is equally as important.
Canon's Digital Photo Professional is a free RAW processor program you can download from their site - certainly worth a look, but you may well find iPhoto simpler if not as flexible. On Windows, not sure about Mac OS, DPP does actually alter (or add) some metadata to RAW files - it doesn't alter the 'sensor data' but somehow embeds edited values to the RAW file so they display as edited next time - you can go back to original but I doubt other software will understand these tweaks.
Digital cameras are getting better and better at getting white balance etc correct, however RAW files are great mainly for two things.
Firstly - in camera white balance settings are simply those applied to JPGs the camera produces. Set it to fluorescent and take a shot of a cloudy scene and the JPG may look awful. With the RAW you can change the white balance after the event and is a real image saver. I particularly like software that lets you use a 'dropper' to choose a neutral grey shade on the image to set the white balance.
Secondly - over/under exposure. As RAW files hold more light intensity detail you can often bring out shadow detail from underexposed images or recover blown highlights from images that are unusable as JPGs. There are limits to this latitude of course.
In camera JPGs are often all you need - the RAWs just give added flexibility.
Next thing I'd say is not to get too hung up about profiles at this stage.
Yes, you can pay for generic profiles or even expensive personalised profiles for the 20D - there are some gains in compatible software (sometimes the profiles are designed to work with particular software!). Not necesarily huge gains though, so I'd say keep it simple to start with.
If there's one thing it's worth profiling, then it's your monitor.
I often use the analogy of a TV with a video still image from DVD or VCR.
Say you adjust the brightness/contrast/colour/sharpness of the TV then the image can be made to look wildly different on different settings.
However the actual image being displayed is not itself altered at all by the DVD player or VCR on pause. Turn the TV off it goes black, but the DVD/VCR still outputs that same image. It's just displayed differently or not at all!
Translate this to editing photos.
The RAW or JPG will be processed by iPhoto according to a particular colour space, say sRGB or AdobeRGB - now how on earth do you know that the monitor's brightness/contrast/saturation are at the correct level to display the image correctly? Is it brightnes 50%/75%/20%?
The answer is the monitor profile which tweaks the output of the monitor towards a preset calibration - this is for a given brightness/contrast/colour setting (not all monitors have exhaustive adjustments but some do). Generic profiles which come with Macs are better than nothing, and indeed often quite close to an individually calibrated monitor profile.
You can however calibrate your monitor either by eye or using a hardware accessory.
Open your System Preferences folder and choose Displays.
Click the colour tab and remember the profile name highlighted!
Click on any others to see how different profiles affect the display - the other profiles will invariably be wrong for the monitor but they show the effect.
These other profiles DO NOT make you system display an image say as sRGB or AdobeRGB - what they imply is that the monitor can display the range of sRGB or AdobeRGB - it can't! It can display what IT is capable of displaying.
It is the image profile that makes software display it in the sRGB or AdobeRGB or other colour space. The monitor profile allows the image to be displayed more accurately by mapping available colours it can display or close fits to the one's the image contains.
There is a Calibrate button in this tab which should help you Calibrate your monitor by eye (I think I've not used it).
You can also buy hardware accessories to accurately calibrate your monitor (I use an EyeOne Display by Gretag Macbeth - older version - there are far more expensive and also reasonable cheaper options out there). The hardware devices basically cycle through a display of 'known colours'. The device's software knows what colour it's trying to display, the device usually hangs over the display and measures what's actually displayed, then reprograms the way the graphic card displays colours and also creates a custom monitor profile - this process of calibration optimises your monitor's display.
You can also calibrate or get custom printer profiles made to optimise printer output, but you won't be doing that. Some online photo sites do however supply profiles which match their photo printers so you can tweak your images to match output on their hardware.
Most photo sites that the public use however will assume that the images are sRGB. If you send an AdobeRGB image for printing it may be treated as sRGB and printed incorrectly if that photo printer's software doesn't take account of embedded profiles.
I said it was complex and confusing!
Continued again!
AC

IPhoto selectively imports RAW format photos

First up - I am a complete Mac novice - my PC blew up a month ago and I thought "what the heck" and bought an iMac instead of a new PC. I have transferred all of my files over to the Mac and am very happy in general. Until I ran into this problem with iPhoto.
I have been slowly importing my photos into iPhoto over the past week or so, and everything has gone smoothly up to about 13,000 pictures. I only have about 2,000 to go. I even managed to synch them with my AppleTv so can now watch them on my television.
However when I now import some of my photos (all are in RAW format) some of the photos for one photo shoot come in just fine, but some appear as white blank tiles. Note that in Finder I can see the preview of the photos just fine - but whenever I try to import them into iPhoto they just turn up as blank white squares.
I've tried lots of things to try and fix this, including:
1. Doing all the rebuild things on iPhoto database by holding Cmd and Ctrl when launching iPhoto - didn't work
2. Reinstalling the iPhoto database form a time capsule backup that i'd taken before the problem flared up and trying again to import - didn't work.
When I go to edit the photo in iPhoto - a grey triangle with an exclamation mark appears and it says "image cannot be edited, the original format is not supported" - but how can this be true when some of the other photos (in exactly the same format) are showing just fine.
The photos were taken on a Canon 500D and as far as I can gather, this has been a supported RAW format for quite a while.
My Mac version is OSX 10.9.5 (I've no idea if that's a Lion or a Leopard or whatever) and the iPhoto version is 9.5.1 (902.17).
Any help would be much appreciated - and please - be patient with me if at all possible - as I really don't know my way around a Mac at all.
Many thanks
SiFiWiFi

Terence - ok - not good news for me I'm afraid - Graphic Converter doesn't like the image either - it didn't show on the preview there and doesn't show up in the main program. I guess my images are corrupted beyond repair?
To be fair - my PC did die - and I've had no issues with reducing any other files - so I've gotten away pretty lightly if all I've lost in that process are some images (albeit of a best mate's wedding).
Is there anything else I can try, or are we pretty much done here?
I really appreciate both your help and your patience walking me through the options, even if it hasn't led to a positive conclusion.
SFWF

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