[Ub3rn00ber]

So I took a buncha photos with my FZ28 camera in RAW format. I got home and didn't have any programs that could read RW2 extentions so I do a web search for the correct program and was directed to the panasonic website for support / drivers, etc and there it had the windows photo gallery plugin installer. That's where the problem begins. It only works for windows Vista. I have windows xp on my photo studio (pc that I use for photo editing...nifty eh?). I messed around and got Irfanview to open them eventually but can't really do much else other than save as a jpg. I'd like to do some editing on the images before any conversion. Editing like say in Adobe Photoshop or some other editing programs. Anyone know if there is a plugin for photoshop or any other popular image editing programs that enable RW2 viewing on Windows XP?

[dabhand16]

It might be worth checking out the Faststone Image viewer - a free download - to see if that will open these files. It has quite a lot of useful functions too, but no complex editing functions.

[Markulous]

Believe you need CS4 if you use Photoshop

[Dave Canon]

It looks to me as if Adobe are only just catching up with this. Version 5.2 of the Raw converter includes your camera issued 19/2/2009 but it looks as of v 5.2 of the DNG converter is not out yet but it should be any time. Once that is released you can download and convert your Raw files o DNG which can then be processed by Photoshop from CS onwards or Elements from V5 onwards.

Dave

[silkstone]

You can use UFRaw either on its own or as a GIMP plugin. The DMC-FZ28 is supported.

http://ufraw.sourceforge.net/Cameras.html

[Ub3rn00ber]

Thanks to you guys for providing answers. I will try them out and let you know which yields the greatest success.

[BigT]

Why not just use the SILKYPIX Developers Studio 3.0 that comes on your disk with the panasonic?
I use it all the time on my raw files.