My camera woes and the dirty dishes

Digital Photo by: Patricia Salinas

Okay so I pinched my pennies to get a digital Cannon Rebel XS SLR camera to use for my digital photography class and my art. I love the camera takes great pics and I've learned how to use it pretty well in class. All my art training has paid off, in that I seem to have a good eye for framing and taking some pretty creative shots. All a surprise to me.I had no idea I was going to enjoy this so much.

My dilemma, for some reason there seems to be a problem opening the camera raw CR2 files in photoshop cs2, cs3 and cs4.
Those are the versions I have tried so far. Found some forums with others having the same problems. Has something to do with the camera raw patch updates in the software. It's a good thing I have been taking my pics in jpg and raw format. So it seems I have some work ahead of me to either figure out how to get my software to work with my raw files or break down and use the software that came with the camera to download the pics from the card. This will be a slight distraction from the web page until I figure it out.

Figure it out I'm sure I will but it's going to drive me crazy until I do. Yes I'm one of those people that will stay up all night until I find something I lost or to fix something that is not working right. But at the same time im perfectly comfortable with leaving the dirty dishes in the sink while I solve life's little problems.

Hey you have to have priorities right?