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sennahojx
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April 26, 2011
Question

Camera raw standalone?????

  • April 26, 2011
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Hello!

Can I get Camera raw as an free standalone program. I have tested camera raw an I love it...

Please help!!!

I´m Swedish...

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      Yammer
      Yammer
      Inspiring
      November 5, 2012

      All I'd like to add is that you can use Camera Raw with Bridge, and not even open Photoshop. In fact, I usually do 95% of my processing this way, and only use Photoshop for retouching and/or special effects plug-ins.

      Okay, it's not standalone, but if you close your eyes and imagine that Bridge is like a fancy Windows Explorer, then it almost is. ;-)

      Hudechrome
      Hudechrome
      Known Participant
      November 5, 2012

      That's missing a great number of subtleties amazing at times, which PS supplies but ACR does not. And visa versa. Take b&w, for instance. Open a Raw file in ACR, do the conversion to taste. Then open a copy of the same raw file set it to camera defaults, open in PS and convert to taste.

      Compare both. I think you will find enough differences to suggest that the job isn't really done until you examined both contributions. And then you can set one as a layer over the other and combine the best of both.

      My oh, my! The darkroom was never like this! Just imagine combining two negs in the enlarger. 4 glass surfaces to scrupulously clean, then 4 neg surfaces. By the time you get to the last surface you have to start over!

      Then you get to spot!

      Lady McBeth was an old hand at this......

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      Coaster67
      Participant
      May 2, 2011

      I'd love to be able to just get Camera Raw as a standalone, or even just upgrade that portion (and I'm not Swedish). I have CS4 Design Premium, and a new DSLR. According to Ad$be, I have to upgrade the whole @*$^#*&$ suite just to get Camera Raw 6. No wonder so many people use Gimp.

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        Jeff Schewe
        Participating Frequently
        May 2, 2011

        You can download the free DNG Converter and convert new cameras to DNG that will open all the way back to ACR 2.4 in CS2. That's the best you can hope for cause the only standalone ARC will be Lightroom. And note there are real and significant technical reasons why backwards compatibility for ACR isn't simply an economic policy but a technical policy as well. You have fun using Gimp....

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        Coaster67
        Participant
        May 2, 2011

        Actually have that download running now.

        I can see it as a technical policy. An economic policy?

        No. Funny Guy, you are. Or a politician.

        Ad$be has had students and professionals (though not so much) by the balls for quite some time now, and they know it. The only companies that outsource their tech support to non-technical firms that have to use problem trees or "look at the website to see what we sell" sales support staff are the ones who can afford not to have great customer service anymore. When you've gotten the market that cornered, customer service is just in the way.

        Fun and Gimp don't go in the same sentence, btw. But you might find that "college student" is often found with it. When the software upgrades faster than the degree programs complete, that "student edition" isn't really that economical when you have to buy it several times.

        Tai_Lao
        Tai_Lao
        Inspiring
        April 28, 2011

        Anonym jly wrote:

        …I´m Swedish...

        No kidding!  From your posts I would have guesses you were …  oooops! Politically incorrect.  Never mind. 

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        sennahojxAuthor
        Participant
        April 27, 2011

        Is it any FREE program that is as good as camera raw. I use Nikon.

        Noel Carboni
        Noel Carboni
        Legend
        April 27, 2011

        No.

        -Noel

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        Jeff Schewe
        Participating Frequently
        April 26, 2011

        Camera Raw is a plug-in for Photoshop only...no stand alone option. There is however, Lightroom which is based on the Camera Raw pipeline and shares the processing capabilities with ARC.

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