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Adobe camera Raw – What am I missing?
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I have a very similar question to Emma below as follows….
I had a bit of a calamity a few weeks ago when updating to XP SP3 seemed to corrupt my hard drive (An early Christmas pressie from Mr Gates).
Fortunately I had my photo’s backed up but not a full system backup.
One of he IS guys in work has rescued things, put in a new disk and sorted me out with xp, email etc, but I have had to re-install all of my other stuff.
Upon re-installing CS3 my .CR2 (canon 40d) raw files aren’t being recognised. This happened upon initial photoshop install, way back when, but was easily fixed with a new ACR download. However I have now tried all ACR updates (4.2->4.6) and am still not able to see my raw files?
So anybody got any ideas? What am I missing?
Oh and Happy new year to all.
Gary
Initial thoughts are that Windows file association is not associating those RAW Files with ACR.
Open a Windows Explorer window and go to Tools, Folder Options. Select the “File Types” tab and scroll through the list until you see the CR2 type. Check its association and what its using to open the files. Should be CS3, if not edit it to point to the CS3 executable file.
Same initial thought as PeteW… try Photoshop – File – Open and select your CR2 file from the Open Dialog.
I’m assuming that you correctly added the ACR Plugin into the File Formats subfolder?
Thanks Guys… I’ll give that a go, when I get home tonight, and see what happens.
Gary
Ok folks – quick update – and more suggestions required if anyone has any ideas.
The issue isn’t actually with ACR which works fine – but only in PS. The issue is localised to adobe bridge which doesn’t appear to recognise the CR2 files. I therefore cannot preview or launch into ACR within bridge. If I double click in the icon ot launches fine into the PS ACR.
I updated the latest availible version of Bridge, but still no joy. I’ve also purged my cache a number of times.
I’ll have a trawl of the web and see if I get any ideas… however if any of you have seen this and have any hints then please do let me know.
This obviously rather limits the benefits of Adbe Bridge! I think i’s back to DPP until I work out whats going on.
Thanks
Gary
Don’t use Bridge myself but is there an option somewhere with regards to “Double Click Action…” ???
Thanks Pete – I have had a trawl of the web and it seems this is quite a common issue., so I have a few extra pointers to how to solve it. I will try them out later.
If I do mange to solve I’ll post up for future reference.
Ok i’m sorted – I’ll explain further as it may be of help to someone at some point.
Issue was that, when I installed the update to ACR, I moved the original ACR plug-in file into a folder named ‘backup’. I left this backup folder in the ‘file formats’ directory. This caused Bridge to get ‘confused’ as it evidently looks further down the directory structure for plug-ins also.
As soon as I moved the backup folder elsewhere bridge started fine and showed my raw files as expected.
Thanks again to Pete and John for your input.
Gary
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