.raw file: how to open it on Windows
40 Windows apps register the .raw extension. Install one of them to open the file with a double-click.
About the format
- Format
- Panasonic raw image
- MIME type
- image/x-panasonic-rw
- PRONOM identifier
- x-fmt/185, fmt/655, fmt/656, fmt/1120, fmt/1121, fmt/1659, fmt/2015
Format data: freedesktop.org shared-mime-info and PRONOM (The National Archives, UK).
-
AudacityThe world’s most popular free software for recording and editing audio.
-
ImageGlassA lightweight, versatile image viewer
-
PCSX2A free and open-source PlayStation 2 (PS2) emulator.
-
IrfanViewFast and compact image viewer and converter
-
WinampThe legendary Winamp desktop player for Windows
-
OpenChromOpen Source software for chromatography, spectrometry and spectroscopy
-
JPEGViewFork of JPEGView by David Kleiner - fast and highly configurable viewer/editor for images with a minimal GUI. Basic on-the-fly image processing is provided.
-
DeaDBeeFDeaDBeeF is a modular cross-platform audio player.
-
PicView100% free and open source picture viewer
-
QMPlay2A video and audio player which can play most formats and codecs.
-
XnView MPProfessional Image Viewer & Photo Management
- GIMP
GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
-
SageThumbsA powerful shell extension allowing to preview enormous amount of image formats directly in Windows Explorer.
-
ImageGlass (MSI)A lightweight, versatile image viewer
-
NamidaA Beautiful and Feature-rich Music & Video Player with YouTube Support, Built in Flutter
-
nomacs - Image Lounge (Beta)nomacs is a free, open source image viewer, which supports multiple platforms. You can use it for viewing all common image formats including RAW and psd images.
-
qViewAn image viewer designed with minimalism and usability in mind.
-
nomacs - Image Loungenomacs is a free, open source image viewer, which supports multiple platforms. You can use it for viewing all common image formats including RAW and psd images.
-
JarkViewerA simple image viewer.
- ACDSee Free
ACDSee Free is a fast and powerful file browser, ideal for viewing RAW images, as well as searching and sorting your media libraries.
- Affinity
Award-winning integrated graphic design, photo-editing and publishing solution.
- PicPick
All-in-one design tool for everyone
- MapTiler Engine
Software for converting your data into fast zoomable maps.
- ACDSee Photo Studio Ultimate 2026
Navigate Your Creative Path and Digital Assets with AI-Powered Precision
- ACDSee Photo Studio Home 2026
ACDSee Photo Studio Home 2026 equips you with the tools to master your extensive photo collection.
- ACDSee Photo Studio Professional 2026
ACDSee Photo Studio Professional supplies you with a resourceful toolkit that blends cutting-edge, locally powered Artificial Intelligence (AI) with legendary digital asset management and sophisticated RAW image editing.
- XnView
Best Photo Viewer, Image Resizer & Batch Converter for Windows.
- 爱奇艺万能播放
Super Powerful Video Player
- Fotor
Fotor is a powerful image editing program
- JRiver Media Center
JRiver Media Center - The Most Comprehensive Media Software
- Total Image Converter
Total Image Converter converts images to other formats, crops, resizes and rotates them. Convert large TIFFs into small JPEGs, make photos suitable for the web or recover old photos in unsupported formats - Total Image Converter will do everything you need
- ACDSee Gemstone Photo Editor 15
ACDSee Gemstone Photo Editor 15 is your launchpad for limitless creativity, built to fuel every graphic design and photo editing journey. Engineered for both precision and ease, Gemstone gives you the freedom to explore new creative frontiers.
- Hetman Photo Recovery
Photo Recovery™ recovers digital pictures from all types of storage media. Undelete photos from hard disks, recover from USB drives, or restore from formatted, corrupted or inaccessible memory cards – it can do all this, and more.
- Movavi Photo Editor
Create awesome photos easily
- Movavi Picverse
Quickly edit and manage images
- PicPick
All-in-one design tool for everyone
- Stellar Photo Recovery
Recover photos, audios, and video files from memory cards, cameras, hdds, ssds, etc. lost due to accidental deletion, corruption, formatting, human error, & virus attack, etc.
- Stellar Repair for Photo
Repair damaged, pixelated, distorted, disoriented, greyed-out, and corrupt JPEG and other RAW photo file formats.
- QQ影像
QQ Image is a desktop image processing software launched by Tencent. With its refreshing interface and simple operation, it provides you with a one-stop image processing experience.
- USBImager GDI wo
Minimal GUI app that can write compressed disk images to USB drives. "wo" is write-only variant
Related guide: Change the default app for a file type in Windows