#ADOBE DNG CONVERTER SOFTWARE INSTALL#
#ADOBE DNG CONVERTER SOFTWARE UPDATE#
#ADOBE DNG CONVERTER SOFTWARE UPGRADE#

You can specify one folder, or you can specifiy a folder and all its sub-folders (in case you want to convert an entire library or set of images at once).

#ADOBE DNG CONVERTER SOFTWARE INSTALL#

Once you download and install this utility (did I mention it’s free?), start the application to get this screen:įirst off, specify the path where the images are that you want to encapsulate into the DNG format. It starts pretty easily…you can download the Windows or Mac versions of it from here: Then the Adobe DNG Conversion Utility may be for you.

If your folders of images look like this: With the stage set then, for those who are not able to or not interested in upgrading, here is a brief tutorial of the Adobe DNG converter (in it’s current iteration as of 4/27/09), with screenshots. Additionally, the Adobe DNG negative has been submitted to the ISO standards setting organization for acceptance as a universal conversion utility, and are releasing it under the GNU licensing, so it will hopefully always be available for anyone.

With that little nugget, it may be useful to consider the Adobe DNG option. I know, we all think that Adobe will be around forever, but the same was also thought of Kodak 20 years ago – and now those Kodak CD’s are becoming difficult to manage. The Adobe DNG stands for a Digital NeGative so it may help to think of this as a way of preserving your original data, yet still making it accessible, regardless of what other developments happen in the software world down the road. This is a really cool utility and it gets updated on the same schedule as the Adobe Camera Raw utility that is unique to the image-editing applications of all Photoshop applications (CS4, LR, etc.).

#ADOBE DNG CONVERTER SOFTWARE UPGRADE#

Granted, I did upgrade to CS3 because of my interest in the field, but for those that either may not be interested in the software upgrade, or cannot afford to upgrade, there is a free alternative from Adobe – the Adobe DNG converter. My Canon 40D was stuck in between application life cycles, and as a result, I was no longer able to process my CR2 files from the 40D natively in CS2. Well CS2 development stopped as CS3 development started. The best example of this was when I did my upgrade of the Canon XT to the Canon 40D just last year (or was it two years ago now?)…at the time I was using Adobe Photoshop CS2 to process my files.

#ADOBE DNG CONVERTER SOFTWARE UPDATE#

The reason? Camera file formats! As camera vendors develop new proprietary formats for their raw file formats (CR2 for Canon and NEF for Nikon as the two predominant players in the game), the need has always existed to update your software to accommodate the new formats for body upgrades. Just as a new camera body can necesitate the need for larger memory cards, hardware upgrades can also come with software upgrades. For many of us, an upgrade of one element in our tool kit comes with many unforeseen consequences and additional expenditures.

Adobe dng converter software