The Camera Raw functionality in Adobe Photoshop software provides fast and easy access within Photoshop to the "raw" image formats produced by many leading professional and midrange digital cameras. By working with these "digital negatives," you can achieve the results you want with greater artistic control and flexibility while still maintaining the original "raw" files.

You can open a RAW photo, and get the CS2 RAW Settings dialog to open either from Photoshop itself, or from the Bridge (the new implementation of file browsing in the Photoshop universe).

First, you can save (and open) camera RAW settings. These are the .XMP files you may have seen in the same directories as your RAW images (each one is named the same as a RAW image but with a .Xmp suffix, for example DSC_0001.Nef and DSC_0001.Xmp). These files are written in XML (so you can open them in a text editor and take a look at them) . It's useful to know about this if you have a number of images from the same batch that you want to treat in the same way.

The title bar of the RAW Settings dialog shows you Exif information for the photo: ISO, lens, and exposure. Right below the title bar, you have controls that allow you to easily zoom in on an image, crop the image, rotate the image, straighten the image, and take a color sample.

The new Camera Raw plug-in support 14 additional digital cameras including the Canon EOS 40D; Fuji FinePix IS-1; Leaf Aptus 17, 54s and 75s; Olympus EVOLT E-510; Panasonic DMC-FZ18; Pentax K100D Super; Phase One P 20+, P 21+, P 25+, P 30+ and P 45+; and Sony A700. Both updates also include improved noise reduction for Bayer patterned sensors, providing better image detail at default noise reduction values. The Lightroom update includes corrections to Microsoft Windows Vista grid display errors and XMP auto-write performance.

The license of this software is Freeware, you can free download and free use this digital photo software.