michapma
16th of June 2005 (Thu), 05:34
Hi folks,
Like everyone else who bought a 20D, I got a new camera with an outdated software: PS Elements 2.0. I've been shooting mostly in jpeg, and a fried with a 10D who has a lot more experience has convinced me to start fooling around with RAW. I was able to install the Camera Raw 2.4 plug-in for CS (after finally figuring out that 3.1 is apparantly designed only for CS2) on my work computer, and it works. Now I'd like to have RAW support at home and tried first with PSE2, so I looked carefully at the Adobe website to find the compatible version. They clearly say (http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=40&platform=Windows) that Camera Raw 2.4 is the correct plug-in for PSE2, and supports the 20D raw format.
After installing it, PSE2 finds the CR2 files (from an EOS 20D), but produces an error when trying to open them: "Unable to use the Camera Raw plug-in. It is not compatible with this version of Photoshop Elements." I realize I'm not telling you anything new, since after a search I found a couple of threads that assert that PSE2 doesn't support raw format. However, since Adobe claims on their site that it does, I thought I'd ask around whether something may have changed in terms of backward compatibility with the newer version of the Camera Raw plug-in. (Rather than write Adobe and wait a couple weeks to decide they're not writing back -- like the last time I wrote them -- I thought I'd ask here.)
Anyone know what the story is? Is there a plug-in for Elements 2.0 that can read the 20D raw format? If not, I'll look into some of the other threads here about RAW workflow.
Cheers,
Mike
Like everyone else who bought a 20D, I got a new camera with an outdated software: PS Elements 2.0. I've been shooting mostly in jpeg, and a fried with a 10D who has a lot more experience has convinced me to start fooling around with RAW. I was able to install the Camera Raw 2.4 plug-in for CS (after finally figuring out that 3.1 is apparantly designed only for CS2) on my work computer, and it works. Now I'd like to have RAW support at home and tried first with PSE2, so I looked carefully at the Adobe website to find the compatible version. They clearly say (http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=40&platform=Windows) that Camera Raw 2.4 is the correct plug-in for PSE2, and supports the 20D raw format.
After installing it, PSE2 finds the CR2 files (from an EOS 20D), but produces an error when trying to open them: "Unable to use the Camera Raw plug-in. It is not compatible with this version of Photoshop Elements." I realize I'm not telling you anything new, since after a search I found a couple of threads that assert that PSE2 doesn't support raw format. However, since Adobe claims on their site that it does, I thought I'd ask around whether something may have changed in terms of backward compatibility with the newer version of the Camera Raw plug-in. (Rather than write Adobe and wait a couple weeks to decide they're not writing back -- like the last time I wrote them -- I thought I'd ask here.)
Anyone know what the story is? Is there a plug-in for Elements 2.0 that can read the 20D raw format? If not, I'll look into some of the other threads here about RAW workflow.
Cheers,
Mike