Adobe Camera Raw ACR Plugin
Nikon D200 D70 .NEF Canon .CR2 .CRW
Rewriting the Digital Workflow...
Download Free Nikon .NEF Raw Files
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What is Camera Raw?
According to Photoshop expert Jeff Schewe schewephoto.com:
"A raw file is a raw dump of the sensor data unaffected by any camera color conversion or tone curve. The advantage of Camera Raw is that YOU get to decide the white balance and the tone curve applied - not the camera.
"A raw capture looks REALLY WEIRD because all the response is flat with 1/2 the capture bits in the brightest stop. To make it look like what we are expecting a gamma curve must be applied." (Quotes excerpted from Photoshop Mac Forum adobe.com.)
• Editor's note: When a .NEF Raw file is opened in Adobe Camera Raw Plugin ACR, a gamma curve is applied by default, so it doesn't look so weird, but we can apply various curves while in ACR.
Adobe Camera Raw ACR Frequently Asked Questions FAQ adobe.com.
Adobe Camera Raw ACR supported cameras list Adobe Camera RAW Camera List adobe.com.
Adobe Camera RAW Plugin is included with Photoshop CS CS2 CS3 and automatically installs with Photoshop.
Information about how to open .nef .cr2 .crw files in Photoshop and use Adobe Camera RAW is included.
Be sure to update ACR Plugin with the latest version for compatibility issues:
Adobe Camera Raw 4.1 2.4 3.1 3.6 DOWNLOAD UPDATERS MAC adobe.com.
Adobe Camera Raw UPDATERS DOWNLOADS for WINDOWS adobe.com.
ACR 2.0 will not open .nef files from a D70s camera, but ACR 2.4 will. But ACR 2.4 -- the latest ACR Plugin for PS8/CS -- will not open Nikon D200 camera nef RAW files because the ACR 2.4 plugin was never written for the D200 RAW photos.
To open D200 .nef pictures, you will need CS2-PS9 with ACR 3.7 or later, so keep this in mind if your .nef or .cr2 files won't open with Adobe Camera Raw, you may need updaters or newer version of Photoshop.
To check which version of ACR is installed: Open Photoshop> Photoshop> About Plug-in> Camera Raw (will note the exact version).
Troubleshooting Why Nikon NEF PP opens instead of ACR:
If Adobe Camera Raw will not open NEF RAW files -- Nikon NEF PP application opens instead -- the Nikon installer installs "Nikon NEF LE Plugin" aka "Nikon NEF Plugin" which overrides Adobe Camera RAW plugin in Photoshop.
In which case you will need to quit PS and go to Applications> Adobe Photoshop CS> Adobe Photoshop Only> File Formats AND remove the Nikon NEF LE Plugin from the folder if you want to open and use the free Adobe Camera RAW Plugin.
FREE DOWNLOADS Photoshop Nikon .nef RAW files included below.
I have several Nikon D200 and D70 .nef files below for downloading.
This "raw" concept (bringing 100 percent of the sensor data into Photoshop) has long been a part of Bruce Fraser's scanning workflow HutchColor/Bruce Fraser’s hutchcolor.com DOWNLOAD scanning (.pdf) guide. With this in mind, I would hope the Adobe Scanner RAW plug-in is about ready ;)
While the writer here used a Nikon D200 and D70 to prepare this ACR online tutorial, Adobe Camera Raw supported Nikon, Canon, Fujifilm, Konica Minolta camera models include:
Nikon
• D1
• D1H
• D1X
• D100
• D200
• D2H
• D2Hs
• D2X
• D2Xs
• D40
• D50
• D70
• D80
• Coolpix
Canon
• EOS-1D
• EOS-1Ds
• EOS-1D Mark II
• EOS-1Ds Mark II
• EOS-1Ds Mark III
• EOS 10D
• EOS 20D
• EOS 20Da
• EOS D30
• EOS D60
• Rebel
• Powershot
Fujifilm
• FinePix E900
• FinePix F700
• FinePix S2 Pro
• FinePix S3 Pro
• FinePix S20 Pro
• FinePix S5000 Z
• FinePix S5200/5600
• FinePix S6000fd/S6500fd
• FinePix S7000 Z
• FinePix S9000/9500
• FinePix S9100/9600
Konica Minolta
• DiMAGE A1
• DiMAGE A2
• DiMAGE A200
Contax
• N Digital
Leaf
• Aptus 22
• Aptus 65
• Aptus 75
• Valeo 6
• Valeo 11
• Valeo 17
• Valeo 22
• Leica
• D-Lux 2
• D-Lux 3
• Digilux 2
• Digilux 3
• V-LUX 1
Sony
• DSC-F828
• DSC-V3
• DSC-R1
• A100
Mamiya
• ZD
Kodak
• DCS 14n
• DCS Pro 14nx
• DCS720x
• DCS760
• DCS Pro SLR/n
• EasyShare P712
• EasyShare P850
• EasyShare P880
• Olympus
• E-10
• E-1
• E-20
• EVOLT E-300
• EVOLT E 330
• EVOLT E-400
• EVOLT E-410
• EVOLT E-500
• C-5050 Zoom
• C-5060 Zoom
• C-7070 Wide Zoom
• C-8080 Wide Zoom
• SP-310
• SP-320
• SP-350
• SP-500UZ
• SP-510 UZ
Epson
• R-D1
• R-D1s
Photoshop 10 9 8 7 CS3 CS2 CS1 was used in conjunction with Adobe Camera RAW 4.1, 2.4, 3.1, 3.6.
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THE CAMERA RAW WORKFLOW WORK FLOW:
Shoot camera Raw .NEF, open .NEF in Photoshop 10 9 8 CS CS2 CS3, apply all the corrections within the Photoshop Adobe Camera Raw ACR interface - then - bring the file into Photoshop (in 16 bit)....
The photo opens in Photoshop's 16-bit RGB WorkFlow with only the one Raw-to-16-bit RGB conversion!
Camera Raw> 16-bit RGB keeps us true to the main goal of digital imaging:
CAPTURE as much color information as possible, and PRESERVE that color information throughout the editing processes:
Bruce Fraser has already written the book on Camera Raw:
Real World Camera RAW With Adobe Photoshop CS
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PERSONAL NOTES and free D200 D-200 D70 D-70 Raw .NEF file downloads:
I have to admit I've never owned an auto-anything camera and have rarely shot 35mm professionally over the past 20 years, but my recent foray into Nikon D70 ($1,300 with kit lens, SB-800 flash), and D200 camera and Adobe Camera Raw plug-in has rewritten my professional photography workflow at light speed....
The relatively inexpensive D70 and D200, with all those modern Nikon features, conveniences, are awesome. And the Adobe Camera RAW Plug-in has sealed the deal.
My only complaint thus far is the Nikon D200 and D70's viewfinders - I can't see the sharpness to manual focus - but the D70's light weight, 1/500th flash-sync speed weigh greatly in the D70's favor. The maximum 1/250th second sync on the D200 is a major disappointment though.
Here are two free digital .nef photographs shot with my Nikon D200 for download.
Download free Nikon D200 RAW .NEF files photos.
Note: Photoshop 9 CS2, Adobe Camera RAW (ACR) 3.4 or better required to open these files.
(My lunch) shot with the AF-S Nikkor 18-70mm ED kit lens...
DOWNLOAD original D200 RAW .NEF file:
Pescado.sit, Pescado.zip (12mb)
Shot with the AF-S Nikkor 18-70mm ED kit lens...
DOWNLOAD original D200 RAW .NEF file:
Fishermen.sit, Fishermen.zip (12mb)
Download free Nikon D70 RAW .NEF files photos.
Note: Photoshop 8 CS, Adobe Camera RAW (ACR) 2.2 or better required to open these files.
Shot with the AF-S Nikkor 18-70mm ED kit lens, F/11 @ 6 seconds...
DOWNLOAD original RAW .NEF file:
RedRoof.sit, RedRoof.zip (7mb)
Shot with the AF Micro Nikkor 105mm, F/2.8 @ 1/250th second...
DOWNLOAD original RAW .NEF file:
MonaLisa.sit, MonaLisa.zip (7mb)
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