.RAW File Extension

You can open RAW files with various image-editing and -viewing applications. Some options include Adobe Photoshop (Windows and macOS), Adobe Photoshop Elements (Windows and macOS), Corel PaintShop Pro (Windows), ACD Systems ACDSee (Windows), and RawTherapee (multiplatform).

Many image editors, including Adobe Photoshop and Corel PaintShop Pro, can convert RAW files to other formats. For example, Photoshop can convert RAW files to the following formats (and several others):

• .PNG - Portable Network Graphic
• .JPEG - JPEG Image
• .GIF - Graphical Interchange Format
• .PSD - Adobe Photoshop Document
• .BMP - Bitmap Image
• .PCX - Paintbrush Bitmap Image
• .TGA - Targa Graphic
• .TIFF - Tagged Image File Format

Dolphin is a multiplatform program that allows gamers to play Nintendo GameCube and Wii video games on their PCs. It allows players to load game- and console-related data from, and save data to, many different types of files, including RAW files.

Each RAW file acts as a virtual Nintendo Wii SD card. Dolphin can load data from and save data to this file, just as a real Wii would load data from and save data to an SD card. For example, players can load saved games from an sd.raw file. They also can load data required by certain homebrew applications, which need an SD card (and data stored on that SD card) to function.

How to create an SD.RAW file

Gamers can use Dolphin itself or the Virtual SD Card Maker utility (multiplatform) to create an sd.raw file. For complete instructions, refer to Dolphin's documentation.

To mount an sd.raw file in Dolphin (multiplatform):

1. Open Dolphin and select Options → Configuration → Wii.
2. In the SD Card Settings section, click the ... button that appears next to SD Card Path:.
3. Navigate to and select your sd.raw file.

You can also use Dolphin to edit an sd.raw file's contents as though the file were an actual SD card. For more information, refer to Dolphin's documentation.

Because RAW files do not contain a file header, you may have trouble playing them in some media players. These media players require metadata that would typically be stored in an audio file's header to play audio correctly. Thus, they cannot play RAW files.

Many more-common types of audio files, including .WAV and .AIFF files, contain audio data created using Pulse-Code Modulation. However, these files contain a file header and use a recognized audio container format, allowing most popular media players to play them correctly.

You can open a RAW file with Audacity (multiplatform), MPlayer (multiplatform), or Adobe Audition (Windows, Mac).

Audacity, Adobe Audition, and FMJ-Software Awave Studio can convert RAW files to other audio formats. For example, Audacity can convert RAW files to the following formats:

• .AIFF - Audio Interchange File Format
• .WAV - WAVE Audio
• .OGG - Ogg Vorbis Audio
• .FLAC - Free Lossless Audio Codec
• .MP2 - MP2 Audio
• .M4A - MPEG-4 Audio
• .AC3 - Audio Codec 3
• .AMR - Adaptive Multi-rate Codec
• .OPUS - Opus Audio
• .WMA - Windows Media Audio

Fedora Linux is a popular Linux distribution. Users can install various versions of the operating system on PCs, servers, and other devices.

Users install Fedora Linux using disk images that contain a raw copy of the operating system. These images are saved in many formats, including .ISO, .QCOW2, and RAW.

RAW files' filenames include the operating system they are used to install and the architecture on which they are meant to be installed. For example, a RAW file named Fedora-Server-25-1.2.aarch64.raw contains a copy of the Fedora Server operating system that is meant to be installed on an AArch64 machine.

You can use a RAW disk image to install the Fedora Linux operating system it contains on an appropriate device. To do so, boot your device from a USB or other drive containing the RAW disk image.

An X-ray diffractometer shoots X-rays at a material and measures the resulting scattering pattern to determine the material's structure. Various scientists, including material scientists and structural biologists, use diffractometers to analyze materials' composition.

After performing a diffractometer analysis, scientists can often save the results of that analysis as a file. Several models of X-ray diffractometers, including devices produced by Siemens, Bruker, DiffracPlus, STOE, and MAC Science, save analysis results as RAW files. Scientists can use various programs and utilities to open these files, analyze the results they contain (usually shown as a spectrum and graph), and convert them to other formats.

You can open RAW files with ICDD JADE Pattern Converter (Web), PowDLL (Windows), ConvX (Windows), MacDiff (Mac), and other X-ray diffractometer results analysis and conversion utilities. Note that, because different diffractometers save results differently, these programs may be able to open some types of RAW files but not others.

You can use ICDD JADE Pattern Converter (Web), PowDLL (Windows), ConvX (Windows), and MacDiff (Mac) to convert RAW files to other X-ray diffractometer results formats and, often, the .TXT format.