Adobe Photoshop CS2: Digital Camera Raw File Support

The camera raw functionality in Adobe© Photoshop© software provides fast and easy access within Photoshop to the "raw" image formats produced by many leading professional and midrange digital cameras. By working with these "digital negatives," you can achieve the results you want with greater artistic control and flexibility while still maintaining the original "raw" files.

The Photoshop Camera Raw plug-in became the latest must-have tool for professional photographers when it was released in February 2003. This powerful plug-in has been updated to support more cameras and include more features, and is available as part of Adobe Photoshop CS2. With Photoshop CS2 you get not only the latest camera raw plug-in, but also the full range of exciting new features that are part of this release.

The Photoshop Camera Raw plug-in (2.3 or higher) now also supports raw files in the DNG format. Find out more about the benefits of the Digital Negative, a publicly documented raw file format recently announced by Adobe.

To learn more about Camera Raw, read these primers:

• Understanding digital raw capture (PDF, 1000k)
• Linear gamma (PDF, 235k)

Supported Cameras

Camera Raw 3.3

Newly supported cameras for Camera Raw 3.3 - January 2006

Support for the following cameras has been added from Camera Raw 3.2 to 3.3.

Supported cameras for Camera Raw 3.2

Support for the following cameras is included in Photoshop CS2. Camera Raw 3.1 is not compatible with Photoshop CS.

DNG Native Cameras

The following cameras can natively capture DNG-format raw files, and therefore are compatible with Adobe Camera Raw versions 2.4 and greater.

* The file encryption found in some Nikon raw formats has caused some users to question the level of cooperation between Nikon and Adobe in providing solutions for raw processing.