Good Program for Viewing RAW files (.CR2)

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StirlingBear

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Looking for a program I can use to view Raw files, any suggestions?

Basically just to help with good house keeping some shots needing cleared out.
Have a few and it would take ages to open them up in photoshop.

I tried the microsoft RAW viewer for xp but it did not work so any suggestions would be welcomed, also if it is a FREE program even better.
 
graphilly said:
Free RAW Viewer?
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Yes if such a thing exists, basically just want a program that lets me flick through my raw photos at or about full screen and I can bin the shots I dont want.

EIDT: just realised that is in fact a program cheers!
 
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Irfanview, grab the plugins. It views everything :) and its freeware. been using it for years, comes with basic editing (crop, save into whatever format you want). Excellent programme and under 10mb
 
faststone
 
StirlingBear said:
Yes if such a thing exists, basically just want a program that lets me flick through my raw photos at or about full screen and I can bin the shots I dont want.

EIDT: just realised that is in fact a program cheers!
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:) I've used it in the past for the same thing and it was quite good. I think it even lets you flag them, call up all the flagged ones for reviewing again and then you can delete them as a batch. I THINK!!!
 
superb thanks guys. Also would adobe bridge work for this purpose? I have never used it in my entire time of having photoshop.
 
if you have phooshop why not use that?
 
StirlingBear said:
because for some reason you have to open the file up to see it, looking for something similar to the way you can view pictures in windows like film strip.
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Not in bridge you shouldn't, not if it's compatable with your raw.
 
admirable said:
faststone
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:agree:

Freely available and a very good product for all types of imagery and post production facilities. Probably very amateur comapred to photoshop, but if it's just for CR2's and a bit of playing about, I find it's perfect and quite a polished product.:thumbs:
 
What's wrong with the stuff that came with your camera i.e.

Canon Digital Photo Professional
or
Canon Zoombrowser
 
swanseamale47 said:
Not in bridge you shouldn't, not if it's compatable with your raw.
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yup, started using bridge works a treat for viewing photos, makes it easier to pick out the keepers and is extremely easy to use. now i can look at my shots and see which ones I want to edit. Before i was just opening them in raw to see what photo is what and it was taking ages.

acetone said:
What's wrong with the stuff that came with your camera i.e.

Canon Digital Photo Professional
or
Canon Zoombrowser
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I bought second hand and the disc that came with it did not have any software on it :'(

fine now though quite happy using bridge and i have photoshop to edit.
 
I use Microsoft's RAW image viewer and works perfect for me. I'm also using XP...
 
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