slugman Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 I have a .RAW file and i cannot seem to open it. I need a piece of freeware software to open it. Anyone had this problem or can help point me in the right direction. sluggerzz.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Cooper Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 .raw files usually mean that they haven't been processed and just contains the data received from a device, these days it is most commonly related to high spec digital cameras. If it is a RAW image file try dcraw. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infiltrator Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 If you are shooting photos in RAW mode, the camera should have been supplied with a CD, containing the software. If that's not that case, Photoshop would be a good software to open RAW files. Alternatively you can download this free utility from Microsoft. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=d48e808e-b10d-4ce4-a141-5866fd4a3286 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 What kind of file is it though, do you know? Is it picture data, audio, video, some other format? Not all RAW files are pictures. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr-Protocol Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 RAW = Raw data... could be anything... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Cooper Posted April 29, 2011 Share Posted April 29, 2011 RAW = Raw data... could be anything... But we can make some educated guesses as to what it might be. I haven't seen raw audio files since I moved from my Amiga to using a PC. So that is unlikely. Video footage in a raw form would take up masses of disk space, so again that would seem unlikely. Images on high spec cameras (or lower spec cameras using lovely open source firmware) are quite often set to save images in a their raw format. Which suggests that his .raw file is probably an image. Of course this doesn't mean that it is an image file, but it is a good guess as to what the file could contain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr-Protocol Posted April 29, 2011 Share Posted April 29, 2011 Well if it's a windows PC, file extension = .raw could be anything, Linux reads file headers... you can have a picture be a jpg but with a .raw in linux. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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