Adobe raw

[Rturtle72]

I'm trying to use Adobe canera raw. I have installed it but can't I'm not sure on how to open it right. When I open it I think it just opens my Elements 6.0. Is there any simple instructions or vidios to help or can anyone explain the steps?

[Samanax]

Did you install ACR according to the instructions on the Adobe web site...it has to go into that specific folder.

Are you working on RAW files?

Start up Elements and then go to File> Open> navigate to the folder with your RAW files and select the one you want to edit> click Okay and then ACR should start up.

[Aperture Nine]

To install with Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0:

1. Exit Photoshop Elements
2. Open My Computer
3. Double-click Local Disk (C
4. Navigate to: (Please read directory carefully)

Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop Elements 6.0\Plug-Ins\File Formats

5. Move the existing Camera Raw.8bi plug-in to another location (for example, a new folder on your desktop). Ensure you keep this version in case you need to revert back.

6. Copy the Camera Raw plug-in, Camera Raw.8bi, from the download into the same folder as Step 4.

7. Launch Photoshop Elements.

If you did that, then I think you should just run Elements, open a RAW file from the Open dialog, and then ACR will launch automagically. True?

[OsmosisStudios]

Originally Posted by Aperture Nine

If you did that, then I think you should just run Elements, open a RAW file from the Open dialog, and then ACR will launch automagically. True?

Thats how its always worked for me in CS2 and CS4. Even just double-clicking a RAW file without PS already open should give the same effect.

[RoyL]

By default Elements uses Camera Raw to process Raw images. There is an option in Preferences for this, just make sure it is selected. I re-iterate that it uses it for Raw images only because it works with Camera Raw 4.#.

The new Elements 7, just released, uses CR 5.#, I will have to get a copy to test it but later. As it uses CR 5.# it means you can also process jpegs and tiffs with Camera Raw by changing Camera Raw options.

If you want to open jpeg, tiff, and Raw in Camera Raw by default then you will have to upgrade to Elements 7.

[jdepould]

Originally Posted by RoyL

By default Elements uses Camera Raw to process Raw images. There is an option in Preferences for this, just make sure it is selected. I re-iterate that it uses it for Raw images only because it works with Camera Raw 4.#.

The new Elements 7, just released, uses CR 5.#, I will have to get a copy to test it but later. As it uses CR 5.# it means you can also process jpegs and tiffs with Camera Raw by changing Camera Raw options.

If you want to open jpeg, tiff, and Raw in Camera Raw by default then you will have to upgrade to Elements 7.

*Cough*or Lightroom*cough*cough*

[RoyL]

Originally Posted by jdepould

*Cough*or Lightroom*cough*cough*

Rturtle72 is an Elements user. Far cheaper to upgrade to 7 than pay extra money for a product that does little more than catalogue assets.

I know it's user base love it but at the end of the day it is nothing more than an Asset Management System that was developed to try and compete with Aperture. Photoshop and Elements are designed as Photo Editing software. Lightroom came into vogue when a "cliche" word came into existance - Workflow. This word was coined by all those author's that have produced millions of books on Photography and Workflow, most of which have never even worked images let alone used a camera.

Would have been nice if the Bridge was supplied with Elements. Bridge does what Lightroom should do, to bridge the gap between asset managment and image editing.

[RustySterling]

I agree that Bridge is a nice database/cateloging tool. I love it and it works seemlessly with my Photoshop CS4 and Premier CS3 (don't ask me why the different versions, long story). Bridge is the reason I haven't looked at getting Lightroom. Certainly Lightroom has its place for many shooters and I know a lot of people who use it exclusively with great results. So I'm not putting it down. It just doesn't have a place in my "Workflow."

Oh, my day job is in IT and workflow is a very important concept in my work and extremely specific. I just don't think of it in the same way as my photography work because the concept is no where near the same as in my day job.