Professional and mid-range photo cameras offer support for RAW format, a kind of digital negative that lets you tweak the images with great control and flexibility in order to obtain the perfect result before saving it to JPG. And now with Adobe Camera Raw you can work on RAW images directly in Photoshop.

Adobe Camera Raw is a Photoshop plug-in that launches automatically every time you open a RAW file in Photoshop. It enables you to work on the original image with plenty of tools, all conveniently organized in several tabs: basic adjustments, tone curve, grayscales, split toning, lens corrections, camera calibration and more.

While using Adobe Camera Raw, you'll be able to see the results of your adjustments in real time in the preview pane, and also take several snapshots along the editing process, and save custom presets for later use.

Adobe Camera Raw is very easy to install. Simply unzip the archive and copy the 8bi file into the Program Files/Common Files/Adobe/Plug-Ins/CS4/File Formats folder. The only con is that it's only compatible with Photoshop CS4.

Adobe Camera Raw is a handy plug-in that lets you view and edit RAW images in Adobe Photoshop.

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Real Time Processing Nearly all of the processing controls in HDR Darkroom are real time, making HDR Darkroom the fastest processing HDR software on the market Powerful Batch Processing Our HDR Darkroom Batch Processing Engine automatically handles multiple sets of photos according to your unique preferences. Camera RAW File Converter HDR Darkroom supports RAW files of more than 150 camera models, including Canon, Nikon, Sony, Olympus and Panasonic, as well as Adobe (DNG), etc.

User-friendly Interface By working with professional photographers to understand their workflow, we designed HDR Darkroom specifically for ease of use, but without compromising on control Export to Social Media We've made it easy for you to share your amazing HDR images on all the popular social media and photo sharing websites like Facebook, Twitter and Flickr.

Create stunning HDR images fast and easy. The best HDR software for beginners.

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This impressive photo editing tool enables you to fix and enhance your photos in a couple of clicks, and also add a few original special filters and effects that can turn a dull shot into a really creative piece of photography. Plus, ArcSoft PhotoStudio works with all major formats, including RAW files from high-quality digital cameras.

If you've seen Photoshop, you'll be familiar with ArcSoft PhotoStudio. It doesn't feature as many tools and options, that's true, but if you've ever used Adobe's big shot, you'll immediately feel comfortable with ArcSoft PhotoStudio's interface, utilities and even keyboard shortcuts.

ArcSoft PhotoStudio supports layers and macros, includes a wide variety of editing and drawing tools, and even features special retouching effects that can do things such as age your photo, make close ups of faces more beautiful, add frames and modify lighting.

ArcSoft PhotoStudio makes it easy to edit your photos, while also providing access to fun masks and effects. This makes it an all-round good bet.

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Microsoft Pro Photo Tools 2 is the upgraded version of what was formerly known as Microsoft Photo Info which allowed photographers to add, change and delete common "metadata" properties for digital photographs.

This latest version does all this still but also provides a whole set of tools for photographers to perform various other tasks with their images including capturing images from their cameras. In addition, you can now geotag your photos, view and edit metadata, and utilize the Microsoft Live Local to store and publish photos.

In addition, Microsoft Pro Photo Tools 2 works much better with Adobe products (useful when editing metadata that you'll later edit in Photoshop) and users can now convert from RAW to JPEG, TIFF, and HD using "As Shot" settings. It now also supports 64-bit Windows systems. Probably the most useful update is the geo-tagging GUI which allows you to quickly identify exactly where your images were taken and it even utilizes GPS coordinates.

Microsoft Pro Tools 2 is a remarkably well designed and thought out photo processing app for a Microsoft product and even professional photographers will find something useful in it.

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One of the few drawbacks of owning a digital camera is that it can often be tricky to import photo files in RAW format from your snapper to your computer.

Stepok's Raw Importer aims to solve all that by providing you with a simple tool for grabbing images off your camera with the minimum amount of fuss.

Although Raw Importer only supports conversion to JPEG or TIFF, this should be fine for most people, and it does make brisk worked of converting these files.

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Expression Media is a professional asset management tool to visually catalog and organize all your digital assets for effortless retrieval and presentation.

Effortless Organization

Start working with your files right away, while Expression Media quickly creates full-screen previews.

Seamless Workflow Integration

Support for RAW formats from the most popular cameras and industry-standard metadata formats means that your metadata is already there.

Image and Video Editing

Color management profiles are preserved throughout. You can quickly adjust levels, sharpness, brightness, or color balance yourself.

Professional Presentations

When it’s time to deliver, Expression Media can export your assets in exactly the format and size your clients need, with dozens of professionally designed presentation templates.

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Just three mouse clicks away from recovering all your lost, deleted and (re)formatted photo's or files on any removable media or digital camera connection. RecoverPlus offers media recovery, photo recovery, card recovery and file recovery in an easy interface.

The award-winning program supports all possible picture files and comes with over 40 different file types, data and RAW included. Dedicated to the proprietary RAW Formats of Canon, Nikon, Konica Minolta, Rollei, Kodak, Fuji, Olympus, Panasonic, Pentax, Sigma, Adobe, Foveon etc.

RecoverPlus recovers what others do not

Add more and new file types and improve recovery for the common types with the unique learning engine TransPict Adaptive at no additional costs. For the utmost accurate recovery, even sub-types of the same file type are determined by using Fuzzy Logic. You have a full control over each file type you want to recover with the benefit of increased reliability and recovering speed. Using TransPict Adaptive, you are able to retrieve the pictures other programs fail to recognize.

You get what you see

What you will see in the resizable pre-view pane is the real image. RecoverPlus renders pre-view images from the whole file. The thumbnails in the lower part of the screen are also rendered from the whole image file. What you see is what you get.

Display your recovered photos full screen

Full resizable screen for displaying at the format you want. Full screen display with just one click on the picture. Resizable thumbs. If available, Exif information is shown and the date and time of the files are reset to their original date and time of digitizing.

In a hurry when disaster strikes?

Press the ‘Backup’ button for saving the whole medium to your hard disk. RecoverPlus even recovers from backup files made with other programs. You can deal with it later as if it was the original. Moreover, RecoverPlus caches all scanned files on disk until you save your files or make a new scan. Resume later if you want.

All drive connections supported

The very accurate and fast recovery, enabled by the proprietary Recovery Engine, will surprise you. Scanning, detecting and recovering of files in one go is at least as fast as normal loading of files. Up to 15 MB/sec with a CF card. Supported is any connection with a drive letter, like a disk, reader, camera, card, stick, iPod, Image Tank, CD/DVD, USB, PCMCIA, FireWire, etc. The only limitation in size is the amount of free space on your system disk.

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