The latest version of Elements is available for around $50 until the end of the month (special pricing from Adobe, reflected in the price shown at a lot of on-line sellers).
Almost all earlier versions of Elements will probably support DNG; until I upgraded to Elements 7 I was still using Elements 3, and I was able to read DNG files from within that (just download the free update to the Camera Raw plug-in when a new camera joins your bag). That said; I wouldn't suggest going back to really old versions of Elements, and if you can find anything later than version 4 or 5 it's probably going to be as expensive as the current version (9). On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 12:13:03PM -0600, Walter Gilbert wrote: > Hmm ... I'll check into that. I wonder if I might even be able to > find a slightly less-recent release of Elements that handles them. > Thanks for the info, Godfrey. > > (I bet the "Adobo" release is even cheaper, still!) > > -- Walt > > On 11/26/2010 12:06 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >> The current version of Photoshop Elements will allow you to use the >> latest version of Camera Raw, and has more capabilities than Photoshop >> 7. It's about $80-90. >> >> There's no comparison to how much editing freedom you have when >> editing raw files vs JPEGs, and with Photoshop Elements vs Picasa. >> >> >> On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Walter Gilbert<ldott...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Thanks! Although, to my infinite consternation, I've discovered there's >>> no way to get Photoshop 7 to handle DNG files, and I can't afford to plunk >>> down the requisite cash for any of the more recent Adobo releases. They're >>> a tad spendy. >>> >>> Picasa 3 will handle them, of course, but then I'm stuck with some pretty >>> limited options with regard to editing. I suppose I could use Picasa to >>> export them in .jpg format, but I wonder how much I'll be giving up by using >>> it to do the conversion. >>> >>> Any (extremely affordable) suggestions? >>> >>> -- Walt >>> >>> On 11/25/2010 6:14 PM, Bob W wrote: >>>> Enjoy! >>>> >>>> >>>>> Well, y'all finally shamed me into shooting in DNG. Up until now, >>>> I've been >>>>> shooting almost exclusively in JPG. The few raw shots I have taken were >>>>> throw-away shots I simply discarded out of hand. But, tonight, I decided >>>> to >>>>> check try out the DNG + JPG function while taking shots of the family >>>>> Thanksgiving feast. >>>>> >>>>> You see, quite a few of the reviews I read before buying my K-x lauded >>>>> its >>>>> jpeg engine, stating that you don't really give up much at all by using >>>>> it >>>>> instead of RAW. So, in the interest of conserving relatively scarce >>>> storage >>>>> space and computer resources, I never really bothered. >>>>> >>>>> Well, I'm here to say -- and feel free to pass this along to anyone who >>>> ever >>>>> wrote a review of the K-x making that claim -- that they're huge liars >>>> (I'm >>>>> looking at YOU dpreview!). I'm quite simply astonished at the >>>>> difference, >>>>> and kicking myself over the fact that it took me over >>>>> 7000 clicks to realize it. Of those 7000 shots, I shudder to think how >>>> many >>>>> were deleted that could have easily been salvaged. >>>>> >>>>> Ah, well ... live and learn. But, damn ... so many shots. (sob) >>>>> >>>>> -- Walt >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>>>> PDML@pdml.net >>>>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>>>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>>>> follow the directions. >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> PDML@pdml.net >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >>> >> >> > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
