How to open NEW RAW FILES with OLD LIGHTROOM

[@damo.hutchinson]

Thank you. I am downloading Adobe DNG converter as we speak as I have been struggling with CR3 RAW files file type in the new Canon mirrorless R series.

[@formicapple2]

Mate, you have just made my Mrs start to talk to me! Persuaded her to get a Nikon z50 and lenses for only to find her Lightroom version can not read them. Mrs is a happy bunny. I.m eating her food again.

[@mikesphotography]

Haha! That's great to hear I have been able to help with your relationship!! Nothing worse than talking the Mrs into buying some kit only to find it doesn't work quite like you expected!! 😆 So there will be no cyanide in your pasta this month then!! 😆😆😆

[@RobertoRaymon]

You're a lifesaver because the DNG version 13 is for Windows 10 only. This version you tagged works for Windows 8! 👍🏾

[@mikesphotography]

Great to hear I could help. 😁👍

[@VNCPhotography]

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I have been having this issue for YEARS and you solved it in minutes. Next time you're in Atlanta, I owe you lunch.

[@mikesphotography]

Haha! If I'm ever in Atlanta, I might take you up on that!! 😊 That's great to hear that I could help...this can be so frustrating when you can't open up images in your editing software! 😁👍

[@amaya8550]

Thanks to a roof leak I lost my old camera, so I had to get a new updated camera...which gave me this error in lightroom 5.7! Thank you so much for this, now I'm able to process my friend's baby shower pics!

[@mikesphotography]

Sorry to hear about the leak, but great to hear my tutorial has helped. Thanks for watching 😁👍

[@agustinkafka25]

Great video! Now, sadly my Os system is too old for the converter itself. Do you know any other converter I can use?

[@suzannesomewhere]

Thankyou sooo much for uploading this! It helped me a LOT!

[@mikesphotography]

That's great to hear Suzanne!! I'm glad I could help. 😁👍

[@wolfrehm6314]

That was the way I did since I bought the Lumix FZ2000 as my old payed lightroom couldn‘t use the Panasonic RAW-Format. A good hint, not to delete the original RAW-Files to use them in another software later. 😉👍🏻

[@ИскренВасилев-э7р]

This truly helped me a lot. THANK YOU!

[@mikesphotography]

Great to hear! Thanks for watching 😁👍

[@cristo2241]

i can understand that this video was made 3 years ago. I was using this software for windows 10, but now than i upgraded to windows 11, the programm cannot read my arw files at all..Thanks for the video though!

[@porty65]

THANKS SO MUCH FOR THIS IMFO. I JUST RAN INTO THIS PROBLEM TODAY. I have an OLD MAC THAT CANNOT UPDATE ADOBE LIGHTROOM

[@mikesphotography]

Great to har I could help! Thanks for watching 😁👍

[@FranklinEspino]

As a hobbyist, I can't justify the subscription so I need to go thru this annoying step. At this point I'm used to it. It makes me select the good ones before converting and importing to Lightroom.

[@mikesphotography]

Yep it is annoying...and that's one way of utilising this step...by using it as a layer of filtering out the bad shots. 👍

[@themissalem2181]

Hi, Mike! I'm trying to solve a problem here but if no success. Watching your video made me think that maybe this is happening because I still use LR 5.7, and the photos I´m importing are from new devices. There are some photos that appear with an exclamation mark inside a black circle. LR says they are damaged, but when I check at windows explorer they show just fine. I guess mainly are WhatsApp photos, jpegs. I could see with mp4s files this problem doesn´t show this way. I'm guessing now if this could be happening because all file data is taken when we put a photo in WhatsApp. Have you ever faced this exclamation mark problem? Do you know how to solve it? Thanks! :)

[@mikesphotography]

Hi Themis, I usually see the exclamation mark when I have moved the photos from their original location and lightroom can't find the originals. check this video out for how to reconnect them to the source file. kzbin.info/www/bejne/ipCtnZKbbcmmnJo I hope that helps. Thanks for watching 😁👍

[@alexnilson3192]

will this cause the editing ability of the raw files to decrease? or will it still be the same quality

[@mikesphotography]

Whenever I have done it this way, I haven't seen a loss in quality. 👍

[@3rebornxd]

Great video, but this did not work for the RAW files from my A74 to Photoshop Lightroom Classic. Any other advice?

[@valentin9999]

Man... I thank you so much. This helped me a lot.

[@mikesphotography]

Great to hear Edvin! Thanks for watching 😁👍

[@ohitsdarren]

damn! this saved me! But I am currently facing an issue which is that after converting the raw files to DNG, the image darkens by a lot, is there a way to change that?

[@mikesphotography]

Hi Darren, I'm not sure if there is. As it is a raw file, you should be able to bring it back...or when shooting, expose to the right. 👍

[@skyprintindonesia8514]

what happen if raw file z6 change to dng? will same like raw normal or no?

[@hkknaturelover]

Very informative video...Thanks for sharing bro.👍

[@mikesphotography]

Thanks very much, I hope it has helped! 😁👍

[@Steven-cm7ku]

Still not working for me. I have Lightroom 3.3. Did the dng download for my mac as instructed. Tried 6 different times with older download options but Lightroom still isn't recognizing. Guess it's time to invest in the subscription...

[@ianunwin]

I ditched adobe when I moved to sony and I use the free capture one program available to all sony users. It does all i need it to do crop and light and colour manipulation, I dont go too far with the editing and dont have to change backgrounds etc as I shoot purely as a hobby.

[@mikesphotography]

That's great Ian, you get a good, up-to-date editing package without the monthly fees. 😀👍

[@dp6803]

@Ian, can you please link the software you're describing? I'm seeing a $9.99/month fee for the Sony version of the Capture One software.

[@uhoh7541]

Ian, i purchased capture one for nikon- but don't feel i have the same editing control as with LR and my old camera. Do you have any tutorial suggestions for capture one? I may just need more education.

[@shiftonephoto]

I hate the sub model... I do support the company, I've paid $700 in the past for photoshop and 100's to upgrade to new versions, as well as buying premiere, dreamweaver and Lightroom. Paying every month for this stuff just really annoys me. Also I jumped on CC Photoshop at a friends house to show him some stuff and half the keyboard commands are totally different which is the only way I use it, I don't hardly even know where the stuff is in the menus.. Regardless its clearly not going to change, and while the DNG is an option, it makes double the hard drive space unless you want to delete your raw files which I have a hard time doing, and if you are shooting a large event thats just even more time sitting around waiting before you can actually get work done. Just having a new camera with raw 3 now its like Adobe just has me by the balls its either take more time to get work done and use more hard drive space or pay them every month.

[@JannemanVaarwater]

ever since window 10 is installed on my PC the Preview of my photos in Lightroom 6 won't work anymore! Yes I use the DMG converter now, but OMG the quality of my converted photos are bad looking now! in stead of the original!

[@mikesphotography]

Are you using the latest version of the Adobe raw program?

[@JannemanVaarwater]

@@mikesphotography uhmm... Is that a Converter question? 🤔

[@WatermanSurin]

I downloadedAdobe's DNG converter to convert my Sony's ARW files, but i am finding that the converter darkens the images like crazy. In camera, the photos were exposed properly, but when I brought the DNG files into lightroom, they were very dark. I had to increase the exposure slider by a whopping 2.4, and bring the shadows and blacks up by 61 and 49 respectively - to get an image that looked properly exposed....

[@uhoh7541]

Did you ever figure out a fix to this? I didn't have any specific issues like you, but I'm a nikon user and my DNG files were quite smaller than the original RAW. I assumed there was some image quality loss somewhere. I've been playing with capture one and darktable, but still don't feel i have the editing control using LR with my old camera.

[@emtv28]

thank you so much it works

[@mikesphotography]

That's great to hear! Thanks for watching 😁👍

[@egyptiansphinx]

Thanks a lot... you're a genius 😀

[@mikesphotography]

Thank you very much! 🧐🤔😁

[@eventsvdeographytelceanmihai]

Thx brother!

[@mikesphotography]

No worries, glad I could help. 😁👍

[@nevillegoldsmith718]

open with latest adobe raw edit ,and save to tiff or jpg

[@JeaneneHalsted]

When can I find the windows version?

[@arthiaudi]

Thanks a lot but my raf files converted to dng turn to black to white automatically in light room. Can you please help?

[@mikesphotography]

Hi Arthi, I did a little research into this and it looks like you might have to use the DNG converter v11.3. Check out this post on it: community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic/dng-files-automatically-convert-to-black-white-in-lr-when-imported-v11-4/td-p/10565873?page=1 I hope that helps. Thanks for watching 😁👍

[@sclogse1]

Too bad my Imac with system 10.6.8 can't handle any of this. Even Lightroom 3.0. My problem is it's loaded with paid for Adobe apps and music sequencing apps and files. And upgrading the system for some reason has been problematic. I would love an external drive with a later system to load later apps on that I could bounce converted files back to the old system. But even that has proved problematic. A few weeks ago even my Google Drive stopped being nice to me.

[@outtoin]

sadly, the dng tool doesn't work for me. it can not read CR3 raw ;(

[@alperkrsl]

Hello guys. Icant open CR3 files at LR ı downloaded Converter but didnt find anything to convert. PLEASE HELP ME TY. I need to update LR ı thnk but ı got a cracked version :D

[@basgosemeijer1532]

The Converter works but I lost all the quality of the photos, anybody any idea how to remain the RAW quality?

[@kenjichungluk1358]

hi im using lightroom classic 10.2 and my issues is that i can't export my ARW edited from lightroom to my desktop. any solution to that? thank you

[@mikesphotography]

So what are you trying to export it as? What settings exactly, and what is happening that stops you from exporting it?

[@kenjichungluk1358]

@@mikesphotography i m trying to export the RAW photos edited In Lightroom, for the settings, im using the default

[@hitokaswu2505]

Thank you❤

[@paulm8157]

Good answer, Mike, all-be-it with a not so gentle (“that’s the way it is”) shove to the subscription model; “Minefield Mike” ventures into explosive 💣 territory😁. Man the ramparts! 😂 A hat-tip acknowledgement of other nonsubscription editors (open source and license purchase) would have been only fair, in my opinion. To each his own when it comes to editing software (cost/budget, value, marketing principles, and features being factors). Several very capable editors have emerged and matured since Adobe moved to subscription. Lots of YT tutorials, on them, too (hint, hint). If my count is correct, 6 of your 166 YT posts have been about PS/LR. My hunch is that folks still using older versions of LR have good reasons. Too bad DNG did not take hold widely, the way (say) Adobe’s PDF document standard did; a few cam companies (Pentax, Leica, Casio, Samsung, and Richo have models w/native DNG format)🤔. File conversions risk IQ loss - editing/outcome comparisons might make for a good vid. 🧯

[@mikesphotography]

Haha!! I thought I'd light the fuse and see what happens!! 😆 I do have a few other videos coming out soon on alternatives to lightroom...just testing them out at the moment so I don't miss anything. I was really annoyed when they first switched to the subscription model...I didn't subscribe for a long time, but I found it quite hard to switch to a new editing program, especially in the midst of a flurry of jobs to do...so I ended up biting the bullet and signing up... There are some fantastic alternatives out there now, and I think they were probably spurred on by the Adobe subscription model and have really matured since then...😀👍 Out of interest, what do you edit in?

[@paulm8157]

Mike Smith I, too, took the easy way out 🙄and subscribed to the LR/PS editors, rather than learn something new, though I don’t use cloud image storage or tablet versions. I’ve been following On 1 YT posts with great interest - they appear to be catching up to Adobe. Am tempted to climb the learning curve. Anyway, it’s interesting how several major YT hosts are posting vids covering multiple editors. Surprisingly, a few free iOS and Android based editors (Snapseed and PicsArt) do layers, curves, selections, and amazing photo manipulations - well worth a look see. Look forward to your posts, Mike.

[@grayfoxv]

I really really don't want to update from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10, and the latest version of Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom will not work with anything less than Windows 10, annoyingly. After installing and uninstalling various previous versions of Lightroom and Photoshop I finally got them working on Windows 8.1 by using PS CC 2017 1.6 and Lightroom Classic CC 7.01. Just went out and took my first RAW images and to my horror i'm getting the dreaded "The files cannot be opened by Lightroom" error message when I try to import them. I would have thought Lightroom 7.01 would be nw enough to handle A7III raw files no? Such a pain in the bum! I've seen people solve this by updating Lightroom but I'm fairly certain Lightroom Classic CC 7.01 is the latest version Windows 8.1 can run, if anyone knows different please let me know! If I use this method by converting to DNG will I lose image quality? I'm trying to take detailed landscape astrophotography shots. Thanks for the video Mike!

[@yourvision5833]

Sadly converter said unsupported on my raw file.. im using sony a7c camera

[@03LilShaun]

you the fuckin best, thank you so much. the link didn't work but I've got it from another site all thanks to you.

[@mikesphotography]

Thanks very much! I'll check the link and update it so it is working again. Thanks for watching 😁👍

[@orkido.s]

I used Adobe DNG converter but it changes photo temperature and tint.

[@mikesphotography]

That's strange I didn't find that when I used to use it...at least it retains all of the temp and tint information, so with the eye dropper, you can correct the white balance after converting and importing. Thanks for watching. 👍

[@naomiiPro]

thanks your the best

[@41vids]

DOES IT MAKE THE RAW FILES LESS QUALITY??? ONCE THEYVE BEEN CONVERTED TO DNG??

[@mikesphotography]

I HAVEN'T NOTICED ANY DIFFERENCE...

[@zodiacyt9407]

When I click the link,it shows cant load this page

[@mikesphotography]

Thanks for letting me know, I've updated the link now, so it should work. Thanks for watching 😁👍

[@tyroneshoelace4872]

I'm confused by what you are saying here. The "raw" files generated by my phone ARE DNG files. Now, my Lightroom 4 will not read them. But you say here that Lightroom will read my DNG files. Not true.

[@mikesphotography]

Not all DNG files are created equal.

[@quezsports3378]

I have Lightroom 6 and it’s not letting me import raw files from R6.

[@mikesphotography]

That is one of the downsides of not getting the most up to date piece of software. There are free editing programs that you can get that are much better than lightroom 6. Darktable or Gimp have some great features that would rival the most up to date versions of lightroom and capture one.

[@ellxsound]

thanks!!!!

[@mikesphotography]

And thank you. 😁👍

[@everfree198102]

If you convert to Fujifilm Raw file to DNG you wont see fujifilm color profile on lightroom. Recently bought Fujifilm SX10 and I am 😠

[@microhoarray]

10$ per month is around 70 Turkish liras per month in Turkey. Which is x3 times of my monthly phone bill:(

[@mikesphotography]

I wish adobe would scale the price to each economy...sorry to hear it is so expensive for you. There are some free editing programs out there as well. 👍

[@stanleeger4711]

Let's hope a competitor forces Adobe to compete. They sold Lightroom as upgradeable. And then it wasn't.

[@mikesphotography]

Good point Stan. It did seem like they were on the yearly upgrade pack for ages and then it was as if a new CEO came in and said...subscription model! 🤔

[@vndustman]

Personaly I wouldn't mind the prescription method ' but since lightroom is a cataloging software it is my belief it should be owned and we shouldn't be hosed for $200.00 a month for storage of whitch you can't go over 20TB I have way more than that already $2,400 a year storage in a cloud... As a kid ' I was alway's told to keep my head out of the clouds!!!

[@stevemcgowan3017]

hi I shot photos on my dpi magic air in raw and can't unlock them its dng .im on an iMac 2011 mid.

[@mikesphotography]

Do you mean DJI mavic air? what software do you have?

[@stevemcgowan3017]

Mike Smith yes it’s text predict ha

[@stevemcgowan3017]

Mike Smith I just use lumafusion on iPhone 8plus but iMac just what’s on as standard at moment thjnk it’s too old

[@mikesphotography]

Haha! Gotta love that autocorrect!! 😆 Yep, the software is too old to decode the dng files. You could try converting them to older dng files as some of the converters give you options for older dng versions...that might be a solution to your problem?

[@stevemcgowan3017]

@@mikesphotography seems like a pin down that I take a photo and it should be there like jpeg does.just a photo con to get more money out of you to buy new computer

[@adnanazzam6782]

pls answer whay adobe dng cant read cr3 of canon m50

[@mikesphotography]

What version of adobe are you using?

[@adnanazzam6782]

@@mikesphotography 8.7.1.311

[@adnanazzam6782]

And windows 10 and photoshop 2019

[@Smooth1productions]

I have 5.4 Lightroom

[@ogurets13]

So the only piece of info here is "convert your files to DNG, and then import to Lightroom"?!

[@mikesphotography]

Well done, you got all the info you needed! 👍

[@sammaxine6078]

sadly it doesnt support sony a7c raw file :( :(

[@BlascoMoscosoO]

Answer at 2:30: you can´t. Must convert to DNG

[@frnkjones40]

So technically you're not opening RAW files in Lightroom. You're opening DNG files in Lightroom

[@mikesphotography]

Congratulations, you are correct.

[@SIG442]

I am living on 60 Euro a week, my bills are getting payed aside from that obviously and I manage to save up about 250 Euro a month at best. I can't miss 100 euro a week for very obvious reasons. Specially after saving up for over 10 years so I could buy my first pro camera (Nikon D780) in December and today a Tamron 24-70 G2 lens. I can not afford insane bullshit prices! I sold a single photo as 10 Euro's and that was 5 years ago. Sticking with a older program is kinda the last option as there is no other option available. You can't spend 100 A bloody month if there is no money for it! I am not even done with getting new gear! I still need other lenses and other things to make this work! I can't be spending money on a darned program for 100 a bloody month! That's insane! I am NOT rich!

[@mikesphotography]

This is the unfortunate reality of the world we live in. With differing economies around the world, companies like Adobe really should have local rates for all of the different companies. ...and unfortunately, there isn't as much money in photography as there used to be...I make a fraction of what I used to...

[@micclinger3518]

... and your right, Adobe has done a lot of great things for their software, but I ABSOLUTELY RESENT!!!!!! how they determine how I am going to do business!!! So I have departed the ranks. There other options other than Lightroom. I have departed. I am not a sheep that they can herd around as they please for their commercial purposes. Sorry to be so angry, but that's the way it is.

[@klarion]

9.99 a month?? lol now calculate the cost over several years and add to that Adobe having total control over the software you use, including the ability to turn it off just like they have done to some legitimate users already. Oh, and facts are facts, it's not anger.

[@mikesphotography]

Unless it's open source, every company has a certain amount of control over the software they build and produce. All in all, I think adobe do a good job and give us some excellent tools to work with. Could they do a better job? Probably...Could they charge less? Definitely... but when they employ over 22,000 people and have the vast number of programs that they do available for us, I think that's a pretty reasonable price... obviously it varies from country to country but the photo package is only the cost of two beers a month where I live...

[@klarion]

@@mikesphotography Adobe can cut off anyone at any time if they wish. They have already done so. Adobe doesn't give users the ability to permanently opt out of updates. Standalone software does. You simply can decide not to upgrade... I think you understand what I'm saying. It's not an arguable point unless a person CHOOSES not to take that into consideration. I'm not arguing which is best for anyone other than me... Adobe can do what they wish, but I will never ever use software, which will not allow me to operate it unless I periodically check in with the landlord. It's a personal pet peave.

[@Artist1974CH]

Supporting any big American product is always a huge mistake but that is another story.

[@mikesphotography]

Lol...and youtube is situated where?... Most household products, electrical products and clothing companies have ties with large American companies...if not on the surface, then on the underside...unfortunately there's no real getting away from them unless you go completely off grid...

[@Artist1974CH]

@@mikesphotography I live in the US all my life, and I am not a fan of its superiority complex mentality.

[@sotiriskonstantinidis9759]

a little copy paste of peter mckinnon ?

[@mikesphotography]

Nope, there was a reoccurring question that was popping up in the comments I was getting, so I answered it with this video. Didn't even know PM had answered this one. Thanks for watching 😁👍