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Photoshop now lets you get Raw with your pics
By ron carlson, Insanely Great Mac
February 19th 2003
The Camera Raw Plug-in supports digital cameras, uncompressed formats from leading
makers
Adobe has announced the immediate availability of Photoshop Camera Raw and JPEG 2000
plug-ins. The Photoshop Camera Raw plug-in delivers lightning-fast, easy access ?
within Photoshop ? to "raw" image formats in professional and mid-range digital
cameras from Canon, Fujifilm, Minolta, Nikon and Olympus.
"We fast-tracked the availability of this technology because customers told us they
wanted to view and work with raw camera formats in Photoshop, the software that is
crucial to their art and their business," said Bryan Lamkin, senior vice president of
Digital Imaging and Video Products at Adobe Systems. "While we expect to build this
functionality into future versions of Photoshop, we wanted to put it into customer
hands as soon as possible."
The Camera Raw plug-in allows photographers to directly manipulate the original data
captured by a digital camera sensor, producing images with superior tonal range and
the maximum amount of detail.
This uncompressed raw image, a "digital negative," is preferred by pro photographers
because of the precise control over tonal range and image detail it allows. Accessing
the raw image before conversion into formats like JPEG and TIFF allows users to adjust
the white balance, saturation and sharpness instead of leaving these decisions to the
camera's automatic settings. Bundled with an additional plug-in that adds Photoshop
support for the recently released JPEG 2000 format, Camera Raw software can be
downloaded today ($99).
The plug-ins will work with non-English language versions of Photoshop 7.0.1. Japanese
versions of the plug-ins are expected to be available in the spring of 2003, and will
be sold direct .
In related news...
Adobe yesterday released The File Browser Update plug-in, which increases the
stability of the File Browser in Adobe Photoshop 7 running on Mac OS X version 10.2.
This plug-in addresses a specific issue that could occur when browsing a large number
of files in a single folder.
Also, don't forget to check out the AltiVecCore Update plug-in for G4 Macs, which was
released in January.
Editor's note: It will interesting to see how the performance of this plugin compares
with that of MacBibble, previously the only method for processing raw images on the
Mac. MacBibble was recently updated and now features much-improved optimization on G4
Macs.
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