Thursday, November 22, 2007

How to process CR2 files from Canon 40D with Photoshop CS2

Well, both CS2 and Lightroom 1.0 can not read new CR2 format intorduced by 40D (firmare ver. )
There are 3 options to keep workig with raw workflow:
1) convert CR2 to DNG using Adobe (free) converter DNG 4.3 (note, only 4.3 can do that; 4.2- can not!): http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/photoshop/cameraraw/win/4.x/DNG_Camera_Raw_4_3.zip

2) upgrade to CS3/CS4 or Lightroom 1.3/2.0

3) use Canon's DPP tool to convert to TIFF or JPG or whatever. But TIFF or JPG workflow is far of workflow flexibility with raw data (CR2).

Personally, I ended up with upgrading to Lightroom 1.3. It took me some time to adopt to LR workflow, but now I almost do not open Photoshop anymore for the photo editing.

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