# Working with DNG photos **URL:** \ **Category:** questions\ **Tags:** images\ **Created:** [November 20, 2023, 4:50pm UTC](https://clarionhub.com/t/working-with-dng-photos/6794 "2023-11-20T16:50:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![leroyschulz](https://clarionhub.com/user_avatar/clarionhub.com/leroyschulz/32/6200_2.png) [@leroyschulz](https://clarionhub.com/u/leroyschulz)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 4:50pm UTC](https://clarionhub.com/t/working-with-dng-photos/6794/1 "2023-11-20T16:50:21Z")
I need to display thumbnail versions of DNG photos in my Clarion 11 app. It doesn't look like Clarion supports DNG filetypes natively and Clarion Freeimage doesn't appear to either. Any ideas on how to do this? ---
**Author:** ![jslarve](https://clarionhub.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@jslarve](https://clarionhub.com/u/jslarve)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 5:07pm UTC](https://clarionhub.com/t/working-with-dng-photos/6794/2 "2023-11-20T17:07:40Z")
Will Chrome display them? If so, perhaps Chrome Explorer would work? ---
**Author:** ![jslarve](https://clarionhub.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@jslarve](https://clarionhub.com/u/jslarve)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 5:12pm UTC](https://clarionhub.com/t/working-with-dng-photos/6794/3 "2023-11-20T17:12:10Z")
Apparently it’s not natively supported, but maybe you could use ImageMagick to convert? [https://www.imagemagick.org/include/formats.php](https://www.imagemagick.org/include/formats.php) ---
**Author:** ![KevinErskine](https://clarionhub.com/user_avatar/clarionhub.com/kevinerskine/32/711_2.png) [@KevinErskine](https://clarionhub.com/u/KevinErskine)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 10:25pm UTC](https://clarionhub.com/t/working-with-dng-photos/6794/4 "2023-11-20T22:25:27Z")
I asked the ImageEx people ages ago, they said the might support w/ next release (v6) - haven’t heard much since then. [www.ClarionProSeries.com](https://clarionhub.com/t/image-add-in-suggestions/6404) ---
**Author:** ![leroyschulz](https://clarionhub.com/user_avatar/clarionhub.com/leroyschulz/32/6200_2.png) [@leroyschulz](https://clarionhub.com/u/leroyschulz)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2023, 4:03am UTC](https://clarionhub.com/t/working-with-dng-photos/6794/5 "2023-11-21T04:03:35Z")
> Will Chrome display them? If so, perhaps Chrome Explorer would work? I’ve been Googling. I doesn’t appear to. And when I drop a DNG into Chrome, it offers to save it rather than display it like it does supported image types. Too bad because I use Chrome Explorer in this app for other purposes. > Apparently it’s not natively supported, but maybe you could use ImageMagick to convert? Hmmm. That might work but I’ll have to see whether there’s a performance hit. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![leroyschulz](https://clarionhub.com/user_avatar/clarionhub.com/leroyschulz/32/6200_2.png) [@leroyschulz](https://clarionhub.com/u/leroyschulz)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2023, 4:05am UTC](https://clarionhub.com/t/working-with-dng-photos/6794/6 "2023-11-21T04:05:51Z")
> [@KevinErskine](#): > > I asked the ImageEx people ages ago, they said the might support w/ next release (v6) - haven’t heard much since then. [www.ClarionProSeries.com](https://clarionhub.com/t/image-add-in-suggestions/6404) Is Charles still working on ImageEx? I’ll ping him on Skype. ---
**Author:** ![jslarve](https://clarionhub.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@jslarve](https://clarionhub.com/u/jslarve)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2023, 4:52am UTC](https://clarionhub.com/t/working-with-dng-photos/6794/7 "2023-11-21T04:52:03Z")
I’m sure that there would be some sort of delay. FreeImage does list DNG. Maybe it would not be that much work to get it working in ClarionFreeImage? ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Duglas](https://clarionhub.com/user_avatar/clarionhub.com/mike_duglas/32/1061_2.png) [@Mike\_Duglas](https://clarionhub.com/u/Mike_Duglas)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2023, 9:22am UTC](https://clarionhub.com/t/working-with-dng-photos/6794/8 "2023-11-21T09:22:45Z")
If there are chromium browser extensions for this (“dng viewer” or similar) then you highly likely can display DNGs in Easy Edge. ---
**Author:** ![vitesse](https://clarionhub.com/user_avatar/clarionhub.com/vitesse/32/837_2.png) [@vitesse](https://clarionhub.com/u/vitesse)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2023, 3:59am UTC](https://clarionhub.com/t/working-with-dng-photos/6794/9 "2023-11-22T03:59:26Z")
yes as Jeff says, if you look at [The FreeImage Project](https://freeimage.sourceforge.io/features.html) it mentions: _FreeImage can load RAW files from digital photo cameras (CRW/CR2, NEF, RAF, DNG, MOS, KDC, DCR, etc), virtually all RAW formats are supported._ Also the docs mention DNG in the list of the camera RAW formats supported by the RAW plugin: _Adobe Digital Negative: DNG is publicly available archival format for the raw files generated by digital cameras. By addressing the lack of an open standard for the raw files created by individual camera models, DNG helps ensure that photographers will be able to access their files in the future._ Anyway maybe check out > FreeImage\_ConvertFromRawBits and > FreeImage\_ConvertFromRawBitsEx and see if either of them is helpful? ---
**Author:** ![leroyschulz](https://clarionhub.com/user_avatar/clarionhub.com/leroyschulz/32/6200_2.png) [@leroyschulz](https://clarionhub.com/u/leroyschulz)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2023, 4:51am UTC](https://clarionhub.com/t/working-with-dng-photos/6794/10 "2023-11-24T04:51:50Z")
> FreeImage does list DNG. Maybe it would not be that much work to get it working in ClarionFreeImage Interesting. But it’s likely more work than I have time or desire for. ---
**Author:** ![leroyschulz](https://clarionhub.com/user_avatar/clarionhub.com/leroyschulz/32/6200_2.png) [@leroyschulz](https://clarionhub.com/u/leroyschulz)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2023, 4:53am UTC](https://clarionhub.com/t/working-with-dng-photos/6794/11 "2023-11-24T04:53:00Z")
> If there are chromium browser extensions for this (“dng viewer” or similar) then you highly likely can display DNGs in Easy Edge. Thanks Mike. For this specific purpose I don’t think that will work me. ---
**Author:** ![leroyschulz](https://clarionhub.com/user_avatar/clarionhub.com/leroyschulz/32/6200_2.png) [@leroyschulz](https://clarionhub.com/u/leroyschulz)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2023, 4:55am UTC](https://clarionhub.com/t/working-with-dng-photos/6794/12 "2023-11-24T04:55:18Z")
> Anyway maybe check out > FreeImage\_ConvertFromRawBits > FreeImage\_ConvertFromRawBitsEx > and see if either of them is helpful? Thanks for the suggestion. Displaying DNGs isn’t at the top of my priority list, so I’ll need to revisit this later. ---
**Author:** ![leroyschulz](https://clarionhub.com/user_avatar/clarionhub.com/leroyschulz/32/6200_2.png) [@leroyschulz](https://clarionhub.com/u/leroyschulz)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2023, 4:56am UTC](https://clarionhub.com/t/working-with-dng-photos/6794/13 "2023-11-24T04:56:19Z")
> [@KevinErskine](#): > > I asked the ImageEx people ages ago, they said the might support w/ next release (v6) - haven’t heard much since then. [www.ClarionProSeries.com](https://clarionhub.com/t/image-add-in-suggestions/6404) I pinged Charles on the ClarionLive Skype group about this. The short answer is that there is no ETA for version 6 of ImageEx. ---
**Author:** ![Marcelo\_Sanseau](https://clarionhub.com/user_avatar/clarionhub.com/marcelo_sanseau/32/2929_2.png) [@Marcelo\_Sanseau](https://clarionhub.com/u/Marcelo_Sanseau)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2023, 8:02pm UTC](https://clarionhub.com/t/working-with-dng-photos/6794/14 "2023-11-27T20:02:21Z")
for your information, there is a dll “libraw” for working with camera-photo files that can handle DNG. I made an clarion interface with some features and it works, but very basic. ---
**Author:** ![leroyschulz](https://clarionhub.com/user_avatar/clarionhub.com/leroyschulz/32/6200_2.png) [@leroyschulz](https://clarionhub.com/u/leroyschulz)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2023, 8:16pm UTC](https://clarionhub.com/t/working-with-dng-photos/6794/15 "2023-11-27T20:16:57Z")
Good to know. Is that something that you’re willing to share with others? ---
**Author:** ![Marcelo\_Sanseau](https://clarionhub.com/user_avatar/clarionhub.com/marcelo_sanseau/32/2929_2.png) [@Marcelo\_Sanseau](https://clarionhub.com/u/Marcelo_Sanseau)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2023, 9:10pm UTC](https://clarionhub.com/t/working-with-dng-photos/6794/16 "2023-11-27T21:10:50Z")
Really what I did was very basic, but I can try to open a file and do something with it. Just for fun. What do you want to do with the DNG files ? ---
**Author:** ![leroyschulz](https://clarionhub.com/user_avatar/clarionhub.com/leroyschulz/32/6200_2.png) [@leroyschulz](https://clarionhub.com/u/leroyschulz)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2023, 3:39am UTC](https://clarionhub.com/t/working-with-dng-photos/6794/17 "2023-11-28T03:39:34Z")
I’m working on a small app that downloads photos from memory cards. It would be useful to display thumbnails either when downloading (if it doesn’t affect performance too much) or at least give users the option to check files visually rather than just by filename. ---
**Author:** ![Marcelo\_Sanseau](https://clarionhub.com/user_avatar/clarionhub.com/marcelo_sanseau/32/2929_2.png) [@Marcelo\_Sanseau](https://clarionhub.com/u/Marcelo_Sanseau)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2023, 9:21pm UTC](https://clarionhub.com/t/working-with-dng-photos/6794/18 "2023-12-01T21:21:37Z")
Leroy, do you have a dng file for experimenting?? ---
**Author:** ![leroyschulz](https://clarionhub.com/user_avatar/clarionhub.com/leroyschulz/32/6200_2.png) [@leroyschulz](https://clarionhub.com/u/leroyschulz)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2023, 10:56pm UTC](https://clarionhub.com/t/working-with-dng-photos/6794/19 "2023-12-02T22:56:16Z")
Sure, I’ll DM you the link to a DNG file. ---
**Author:** ![leroyschulz](https://clarionhub.com/user_avatar/clarionhub.com/leroyschulz/32/6200_2.png) [@leroyschulz](https://clarionhub.com/u/leroyschulz)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2024, 6:49pm UTC](https://clarionhub.com/t/working-with-dng-photos/6794/20 "2024-01-29T18:49:29Z")
> Leroy, do you have a dng file for experimenting?? I just came back to this thread and found that I had started a DM to you but didn’t click send. 🤦‍♂️. Check your DMs. Thank you. [Next page](https://clarionhub.com/t/working-with-dng-photos/6794.md?page=2)