Canon 450D CR2 Files compatible with Photoshop Elements 7?

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Richard_Claessens
Mar 14, 2009
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I have recently bought a Canon 450D camera and have noticed that the RAW CR2 images produced are not compatible with my Photoshop CS2 version. I not sure about upgrading to the latest version of Photoshop since I probably wouldn’t use all the features but I would probably upgrade to Elements 7. Is Elements 7 completely compatible with my Canon CR2 files and has anyone else used this combination and been impressed with the results?

Thanks.

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Steve Sprengel
Mar 15, 2009
The 450D came out after CS2 was obsolete so you need at least CS3 to read 450D RAW files.

Elements 7, being the current version, would support the 450D RAW files; however, I use CS4 and LR2 with my RAW files so cannot say how good PSE is or isn’t.

The other option is to convert the RAW files to DNG with the latest free DNG Converter and then use CS2 with the DNGs.

If you have a dual or quad-core system with at least 2GB of memory, I’d suggest using Lightroom.
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athegn
Mar 15, 2009
Richard

Read this Adobe TechNote. It answer all ACR file opening questions:_

< http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb 407110&sliceId=2>

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