Help please .. Adobe Camera Raw Plug In's

[scooby00]

Can any one help with this one

I have CS2 and since getting a D300 and now a D700 I cannot open any raws in CS2 :bang: ..

According to Adobe's raw list :

http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=106&platform=Windows

The lastest version of their raw plug in I can use to add CS2 is version 3.7

.. every thing after that up to version 4.6 is for CS3 and does not work in CS2 ( i have tried ) now there is versions 5.1 and 5.2 for CS4 only .. how do I upgrade the CS2 raw plug in to work with my D300/700 raw files

Do I have to upgrade to CS3 ? this is driving me nuts :bonk:

Thanks for any help

Simon

 

[Barlines]

Unfortunately you either need CS3 to be able to use a newer version of the raw files your D300/D700 creates or you can use Adobes DNG converter to convert the raw files to DNG which you CAN then use with CS2 - Its available from their website

 

[Raphdedge]

Yes, it is the Adobe way of getting you to buy their latest software which seems annoying, but makes sense as someone has to pay for the upgrades. I think you've got three choices:

1. Upgrade to CS3
2. Use the adobe DNG converter (as Barlines has already suggested)
3. Use some other RAW converter to create TIFFs (or something else). There are some opensource/freeware ones kicking around such as: http://www.rawtherapee.com/

Now, if Adobe could just sort out their pricing, but don't get me started on that one