Sharpest settings for lenses

[dragonaxe]

you mean as long as i keep cheating my pictures will be as good as ansel adams!! Cooooool

[Colin Southern]

1) Download the free Adobe converter to DNG, and convert the .cr2 files to .dng, they should then open with CS2, but no promises.

They WILL work , although sometimes one needs to apply an update to ACR itself (although not to the whole thing).

I routinely use the DNG format for EVERY image, even though my camera is of course directly supported by CS5 - why? - because DNG files are small - they're universal in an Adobe world - the converter can rename the files for me as they're converted (using a very flexible naming scheme), and best of all, I don't get pesky sidecard XMP files, and I don't have to worry about backing up the database in Photoshop.

[carregwen]

Ahem.... cough... this thread is starting to sound like the argument for the purpose of wasps...

Q: What is the purpose of wasps?
A; Doh.... dur....doh.... well... dunno really...

[Maritimer1]

Gareth, welcome to CinC. I hate to admit this, but when I first started shooting RAW (last summer?), I tried to open the photos in CS2 and thought I couldn't, too. Then, I discovered I had to open Bridges first and open my picture file. Bridges allows you to see the RAW files. From there, it was a just a matter of right clicking, opening in Camera RAW, tweaking in ACR (Adobe Camera Raw) and then going to Open Image at the bottom of the page. That will then take you right to the photoshop section of CS2 where you can do more processing. Save your file as a Jpeg so you can view it more easily; back it up by saving as a PSD file if you would like to work on it again.

You can open several images at once into ACR, if you wish, by using CTRL/click and sending them all to ACR at once.

If you know all this, just ignore and let me welcome you again to the group from a relatively new member

Myra