canon raw files not opening

[jbirdistheword]

one of my students shot some pics with her canon rebel in raw format. well , her photoshop and mine won't read them or open them in the raw editor. it just says "could not complete your request because it is not the right kind of document." am i missing something with canon raw files here??
i shoot raw with my nikon all the time and don't have any problems so im totally lost.

[inkista]

What camera, and what version of Photoshop? If it's a newer camera and an older version of Photoshop, it may not be able to use a version of ACR that recognizes the RAW format. You may have to convert it to DNG with the free Adobe DNG converter (or upgrade the Photoshop version) before you can open it.

[Woody]

Hello jbirdistheword, have you tried using the free beta ver. of dobe Lightroom 3. Download free as below:

Adobe Labs - Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3

or try teh even newer Beta 4.

This may solve your RAW problems.

Cheers,

John W

[dharmit]

Gimp with UFRAW should solve the problem,

If you just want to view them, try Picasa (gosh, this is the third post today, in which I am recommending Picasa, may be Google should give me some thing back for advertising).

Cheers and Have fun

[Vagebond]

Before trying all sorts of other programs it might be a good idea to visit the Adobe site and check if there's an update for the digital camera RAW file support that supports your camera. Lightroom and Photoshop use the same RAW support.

[MissDonnaLee]

This happened to me last night. I went to Adobe and downloaded the newest version of Camera Raw (5.6 updater) and now it works fine.

[Vagebond]

Forgot one question:

Originally Posted by jbirdistheword

... am i missing something with canon raw files here??
i shoot raw with my nikon all the time and don't have any problems so im totally lost.

RAW is not a standard. Worse yet, there is no Canon RAW or Nikon RAW, practically every new camera model has a different RAW format. Software people like Adobe have to write their conversions for each type. That's why buying a new model camera can mean that its RAW files aren't supported in your program yet and you should check for updates.