jgoodstein
Contributor
Adobe releases their raw pack about 3-4 times a year. I like to process all my images with Lightroom and Photoshop and didn't want to have to wait any longer. So I google'd to see if there was anything different with the format, turns out the only thing different was the EXIF data. So technically to get adobe to read my CR2's from my s95 all i had to do is edit the EXIF data on the files.
1. I had to download exiftool by Phil Harvey Link here
2. I Downloaded the executable version, unzipped it, and renamed it to exiftool.exe
3. Place the file in your c:\windows directory (This is a command line program), this allows you to run it in any directory (for Mac and other OS users see the webpage for instructions)
That's it for the installation. At this point you should be able to open a dos prompt and type exiftool then hit enter and it will blast out a whole bunch of text. So now we need to edit our cr2's
1. Copy your images to your computer
2. Open a dos prompt to the location where your images are stored
*hold shift and right click on the folder and select "open command window here" if using windows 7 or vista.
3. Issue the following command: exiftool -canonmodelid="PowerShot S90" Img name.
EXAMPLE: exiftool -canonmodelid="Powershot S90" IMG_0107.CR2
EXAMPLE2: exiftool -canonmodelid="Powershot S90" *.CR2 (the * will change all cr2's in that directory)
4. The Exif data on the images will be changed from s95 to s90, fooling adobe into letting you process the images. The other cool thing is that Exiftool does not edit the original, it renames it, and only edits the data on the copy that it creates.
!!! Congrats all your photos can now be used in the Adobe suite of tools !!!
I know this is only a temporary fix until adobe gets off their butt and updates RAW, but I wanted to share this, for any others that couldn't wait for adobe. You can edit other exif items as well, but what I mentioned above is all you need to do to get Adobe Raw to process your images.
1. I had to download exiftool by Phil Harvey Link here
2. I Downloaded the executable version, unzipped it, and renamed it to exiftool.exe
3. Place the file in your c:\windows directory (This is a command line program), this allows you to run it in any directory (for Mac and other OS users see the webpage for instructions)
That's it for the installation. At this point you should be able to open a dos prompt and type exiftool then hit enter and it will blast out a whole bunch of text. So now we need to edit our cr2's
1. Copy your images to your computer
2. Open a dos prompt to the location where your images are stored
*hold shift and right click on the folder and select "open command window here" if using windows 7 or vista.
3. Issue the following command: exiftool -canonmodelid="PowerShot S90" Img name.
EXAMPLE: exiftool -canonmodelid="Powershot S90" IMG_0107.CR2
EXAMPLE2: exiftool -canonmodelid="Powershot S90" *.CR2 (the * will change all cr2's in that directory)
4. The Exif data on the images will be changed from s95 to s90, fooling adobe into letting you process the images. The other cool thing is that Exiftool does not edit the original, it renames it, and only edits the data on the copy that it creates.
!!! Congrats all your photos can now be used in the Adobe suite of tools !!!
I know this is only a temporary fix until adobe gets off their butt and updates RAW, but I wanted to share this, for any others that couldn't wait for adobe. You can edit other exif items as well, but what I mentioned above is all you need to do to get Adobe Raw to process your images.
