Adobe Camera Raw 17 is a powerful must-have plugin for Adobe Photoshop, designed for professional photographers. It allows you to import and enhance RAW images. This converter functionality in Adobe Photoshop provides fast and easy access to RAW image formats produced by many leading professional and midrange digital cameras.
Working with RAW files gives you greater artistic control and flexibility, preserving the original files while achieving your desired results.
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom software is built on the same powerful RAW processing technology as the Adobe Camera Raw plugin.
This powerful plugin has been frequently updated to support more cameras and include additional features. It is available as part of Adobe Photoshop. The Adobe Camera Raw plugin also supports RAW files in the Digital Negative (DNG) format.
Adobe DNG Converter
It is a free utility that converts camera-specific RAW files from over 350 cameras to the universal DNG format.
Digital Negative (DNG) is an openly published RAW file specification that stores the pixel data captured by the camera sensor before it is converted to JPEG or TIFF. It also includes standard EXIF metadata, such as the date, time, camera used, and camera settings. This format is freely available for other software and hardware vendors.
When working with RAW files, they are not compressed or processed in the camera. Instead, Adobe software gives users complete control over the conversion settings. For example, white balance is not applied directly to the RAW file but is stored with it, allowing the software to default to the originally intended setting. DNG files also contain standard EXIF metadata, similar to JPEG files, including date, time, camera used, and camera settings.
System Requirements for Adobe Camera Raw CC:
- Windows 10 (64-bit) version 1909 or later; LTSC versions are not supported
- macOS Catalina (version 10.15), macOS Big Sur (version 11) or later
