What Adobe 7, Elements or Photoshop? Elements 7 is only about a year old. Photoshop 7 is about six years old.

Newer versions of camera raw plugin only work with newer versions of the programs.

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I have adobe 7.0 will that work with raw images? I also have the disk that came with the camera, but was hoping to use the adobe.
Thanks
JJ

The key is whether or not the latest version of Adobe Camera Raw available for your version of either Photoshop or Elements will support RAW files from your camera, if it's a later model. For Photoshop 7.0, unlikely. For Elements 7, possible.

The workaround: Download the latest version of Adobe's Digital Negative Converter (v. 5.x) and use that to convert your RAW files to DNG format, which should work with your software. I have to do that with Photshop CS3 because the latest version of ACR available for it does not support RAW files from my Canon EOS 5D Mk. II. It's an extra step in the workflow, but much cheaper than upgrading to CS4 (DNG converter is free.)

For Canon user Canon Digital Photo Professional is a much better solution and is free to all registered Canon users..

You can pick up Elements for a good price and it is quite good, I understand. PS CS5 will cost a chunk of change but you may be able to get some kind of upgrade deal from Adobe.

The version is important because RAW formats are updated by camera manufacturers routinely so Adobe and other photo editing software vendors have to update their software as well. Adobe uses a product called Adobe Camera Raw which is layered upon Adobe products but it generally works only with their last couple of versions of editing software for financial reasons. Lightroom is also an Adobe product that uses the same Camera Raw engine but has more capability.

You can pick up Elements for around $99 from the vendor - not an upgrade price. LR and PS CS5 will cost more change, considerably. Anyway, it is doubtful that version 7 will be of use to you using the RAW format.