.ORW File Extension
OpenRAW File
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What is an ORW file?
An ORW file contains raw image, video, document, or audio data in the OpenRAW (ORW) format, an open standard for saving RAW data. It also stores metadata, such as when the file was created or the camera's shutter speed (if it stores image data), width and height of the image, and black and white points.
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The OpenRAW committee developed the ORW format to store image, video, or audio data in a human-readable format, optimized for fast machine reading, and small in size while being secure and compatible. Typically, you will likely encounter ORW files that store camera raw image data. In these cases, the format contains uncompressed image data exactly how the camera's sensor captured it.
OpenRAW format structure
The OpenRAW format consists of several sections, including Magic, Parent labels, Main data, Thumbnail data, and Child labels. For example, the OpenRAW format storing image data may appear as follows:
- Magic - Contains a short sequence of bytes that identifies the file type (Image in this case) to determine how it should be processed.
- Parent labels - Contains information that organizes and points to Child labels that store image metadata.
- Main data - Contains the image data.
- Thumbnail data - Contains thumbnail icon data.
- Child labels - Contains metadata, such as image dimensions, image thumbnail dimensions, camera shutter speed, and the date the image was captured.
How to open an ORW file
You can open an ORW file with Panaluxe IDT maker in Windows, macOS, and Linux.
How to convert an ORW file
If the ORW file stores image data, you can convert it to the common Digital Negative (.DNG) image format with Panaluxe OpenRAW to DNG converter in Windows, macOS, and Linux.