Adobe Camera Raw
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| developer | Adobe Inc. |
| operating system | Microsoft Windows |
| category | Digital imaging |
| License | proprietary |
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Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) is software for editing digital photos. The program represents a digital darkroom and is primarily used to develop raw data such as those typically generated by digital cameras and some compact cameras . The target group are professional photographers and committed amateurs who do not want to rely on the automated development of the camera manufacturer.
ACR / Adobe Camera Raw is the basic part of Photoshop and Lightroom . As the successor to Display, it takes over the complete development of the digital RAW files (analog to an undeveloped analog DIA / negative) to the finished digital image. ACR was first introduced in Photoshop in 2003. Adobe applications that support ACR include Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, After Effects, and Bridge. ACR / Adobe Camera Raw includes, among other things, the “Adobe Color Engine” (ACE) plug-in, developed by Thomas Knoll, which enables the color processing of RAW files in Photoshop and Lightroom. Adobe Color Engine (ACE) is used by almost all Adobe products for color management. Adobe Camera Raw (2.3 or later) supports RAW files in Digital Negative (DNG) format, a publicly available RAW file format from Adobe.
Web links
- Adobe: Understanding Digital RAW Capture
- www.adobe.com Adobe: ACR supported camera models
- Windows Adobe: DNG Converter Windows
- Macintosh Adobe: DNG Converter MacOS
Versions
- Photoshop Plug-In CS5 - Version 6.7.0.339
- Photoshop Plug-In CS6 - Version 9.1.1
Note: Adobe Camera Raw will no longer be updated for Photoshop CS6 after version 9.1.1.
- Photoshop Plug-In CC - Version 9.12.1 (2017)
- Lightroom Classic CC 7.0 - version 9.12.1 (2017)
Adobe provides backward compatibility for the latest cameras for use in older versions of Photoshop, Lightroom, Bridge, After Effects, and Photoshop Elements through the Adobe Digital Negative Converter (DNG Converter) .
The current version of the DNG Converter is 12.3 (June 2020)
System requirements for Windows are: Microsoft® Windows® 7 with Service Pack 1 or Windows 10 (version 1703 or
newer ) System requirements for MacOS are: macOS 10.12-10.14
The DNG Converter always keeps the original RAW file unchanged and creates another, "open" RAW file in DNG format.