Photoshop Camera Raw 5.4

Photoshop Camera Raw 5.4 is a future-rich and trustworthy program which 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.

The Photoshop Camera Raw plug-in became the latest must-have tool for professional photographers when it was released in February 2003. This powerful plug-in has been frequently updated to support more cameras and include more features, and is available as part of Adobe Photoshop CS4. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom® software is built upon the same powerful raw processing technology that is available in the camera raw plug-in.

The Photoshop Camera Raw plug-in (2.3 or later) now also supports raw files in the Digital Negative (DNG) format. Find out more about the benefits of DNG, a publicly documented raw file format recently announced by Adobe.

Major Features:

1. Adjust images in half the time : Use the new Adjustments panel and fluid on-image controls in Adobe® Photoshop® CS4 to make changes in less than half the time* required when using Adjustment layers, menu commands, and dialog boxes in earlier versions of Photoshop.
2. Enjoy smoother rotation, panning, and zooming : Simply click and drag to turn your canvas for distortion-free viewing at any angle. Gracefully navigate to any area of an image with ultra-smooth zooming and panning. Photoshop CS4 leverages newer computer processors for dramatic boosts in performance.
3. Bypass cropping and retouching with intelligent Content-Aware Scaling : Use revolutionary Content-Aware Scaling to automatically recompose an image as you resize it, smartly preserving vital areas as the image adapts to different aspect ratios. Get the perfect image in one step without time-intensive cropping and retouching.
4. Composite images in seconds for panoramas or extended-focus photos : Automatically stitch horizontal or vertical photos to create seamless panoramas using Photomerge® technology. Combine a series of shots with different focal points into a single color-corrected image with automatic correction for vignettes and lens distortion.
5. Easily apply localized changes to camera raw images : Make localized changes — even gradient-based adjustments — to camera raw images with ease. Simply paint the area to be affected, and then use sliders to control the change. Corrections are nondestructive, so your original files are maintained in their pristine state.
6. Find, preview, and manage images with greater efficiency : Discover faster performance and enhanced navigation tools in Adobe Bridge CS4. Operations from startup to handing off of images to Photoshop are faster, and convenient new workspace buttons let you instantly jump to the right display for every task.

Enhancements:

• Replaces the original one that was installed with Adobe Photoshop CS4, Adobe Photoshop Elements 7.0, and Adobe Premiere Elements 7.0 software.

Requirements:

• 1.8GHz or faster processor
• Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 2 (Service Pack 3 recommended) or Windows Vista® Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1 (certified for 32-bit Windows XP and 32-bit and 64-bit Windows Vista)
• 512MB of RAM (1GB recommended)
• 1GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on flash-based storage devices)
• 1,024x768 display (1,280x800 recommended) with 16-bit video card
• Some GPU-accelerated features require graphics support for Shader Model 3.0 and OpenGL 2.0
• DVD-ROM drive
• QuickTime 7.2 software required for multimedia features
• Broadband Internet connection required for online services