However, the original raw file can also be embedded in the new DNG format to ensure that proprietary metadata from the manufacturer is not lost.Īdobe Digital Negative Converter supports Camera Raw 2.4 to 1.32 and DNG 1.1 to DNG 1.6. The Adobe DNG Converter may, in some cases, ignore some of this proprietary metadata and only include the basic information necessary for creating a high-quality image file. The Digital Negative specification allows for all pixel information stored in current raw formats and all of the additional, proprietary metadata that many manufacturers include. It is also a safer file format to use when you plan on long-term archival of images. Unlike most manufacturer-specific raw formats, the Digital Negative is an openly published specification that is not only supported by Adobe but is also freely available for other software and hardware vendors to support. One benefit of using the DNG Converter is backward compatibility for the latest cameras in older versions of Photoshop, Lightroom, Bridge, After Effects, and Photoshop Elements through the DNG Converter. Which hardly seems reasonable as the main purpose of the DNGConverter is to handle backwards compatibility for Camera Raw files not supported in the user's extant version of Adobe Photoshop.Įver since Adobe moved their business to Creative Cloud they seem to be as confused about what they're doing as their users - and MacUpdate doesn't help with these misnamed updates.Adobe DNG Converter (Digital Negative) allows camera-specific raw files to be converted to a universal DNG raw file. I'm a bit leery of installing this DNG Converter update because it says it's only compatible with Photoshop CC. The only thing I can think of that makes any sense here is that Adobe now only provides Camera Raw updates through Adobe Photoshop of Photoshop Elements. The resulting photos have no loss in quality, as they are still an uncompressed negative format. After that, select the DNG format, and the name you want to give to the images.

First of all, choose the folder in which you have the photos you want to convert. It's puzzling that MacUpdate would leave this misleading naming problem unresolved for so long. Using Adobe DNG Converter is very simple. There is no explanation on Adobe's web site, that I can find, of this issue, not any recent download link for the actual Camera Raw plug-in.

Once you click the download link you get a dmg image file called DNGConverter - and that's all it contains - I checked it with Pacifist. The last few versions of what is called Adobe Camera Raw on MacUpdate contain only the latest DNG Converter, not the latest Camera Raw files or plug-in.

Free instal Adobe DNG Converter 16.0