RAWDrop is a little tool to help you convert your RAW images (as your Digital Camera produces them) to TIFF and PhotoShop file format easily just by drag and drop. It is basically a frontend to Dave Coffin's dcraw converter. RawDrop can write TIFF (8 Bit and 16 Bit 'linear'), PPM (Portable Pixmap file format) and extract JPEG thumbnails from the RAW source data.

The program is basically a frontend for dcraw but it also improves it by adding the ability to directly write TIFF, 8 Bit and 16 Bit linear, beside PSD.

RAWDrop was written out of my need for a high quality, small and handy tool to convert RAW files for my Canon EOS 5D, 10D and D60, but it will work for other camera RAW types too. For a list of supported cameras visit this page and scroll down to the bottom.

RawDrop wants to be a small 'lean and mean' file format converter, no viewer, nothing else. Use your favourite Image Viewer to view its results.

Starting with v1.2 RawDrop also includes experimental RAW file data recovery for Canon CR2 and CRW RAW formats. Recovery may also work for other TIFF/EP based RAW formats.

For a list of supported RAW formats see the dcraw web page. For its output: TIFF 24 bit is the normal setting, both TIFF 48 bit and PSD 48 bit are for so called '16 bit (per channel) linear' workflows.

RawDrop comes with a Windows installer and includes a SSE2 optimized command line version of 'dcraw' with TIFF output options. This version runs especially fast on Athlon X2 and Core2 systems but will work for any Intel-based CPU starting with the Pentium.

The license of this software is Freeware, you can free download and free use this digital photo software.