Chrome OS to get support for Camera RAW files

April 14, 2015

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The latest promotional video for Chromebooks was all about being ‘for everyone, everywhere'. It has long been said that Chrome OS is far to limited to replace a device with Windows or OS X; however, the operating system has really made strides to become more productive. An update to the Chrome OS Dev Channel introduces support for Camera RAW files. This means that photographers and other editors can play around with images the way in which they were taken.

Now Chrome OS just needs a serious photo editor. Any suggestions that are already available in the Chrome Web Store? Let us know in the comments.

Source: François Beaufort (Google+)

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Born and raised in New Jersey, Justin is a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University where he studied marketing with a focus on digital marketing. He's very talkative and enjoys discussing anything from technology and sports to video games and television. As for Justin's current device rotation, he carries around the Google Pixel and Nexus 9. In the rare case that his phone or tablet is not in his hand, he is either flicking through cards on his Moto 360 (2015) or typing away on the Microsoft Surface Book. Justin is patiently waiting for the day that Google replicates the Galaxy Nexus with modern day specifications.

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komrath says:

April 15, 2015 at 3:22 AM

Yay Chrome OS can open RAW files, booo there’s no app to edit them ;-)

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1. Gary Rea says:
  
  September 20, 2019 at 3:53 PM
  
  What about Snapseed? I use it on my iPad and I’ll be using the Android version on a Chromebook soon. Now, if I could only import my Nikon Coolpix P7100’s .nrw RAW files without having to first convert them to DNG, for both iOS and Chrome OS, that would be nice.
  
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