P: Lost Windows Vista 64bit taskbar after upgrade to Camera Raw 6.4

I have the same problem. The alt-tab works but it is not ideal. I discovered this frustrating problem during a Photoshop class with Ben Willmore today and I want to take notes and follow the teacher. This problem makes that extremely difficult and time consuming. I would like to have Microsoft Word open and ACR open so I can easily work and take notes... but no, in a dark room, I have to find the alt-tab keys and relocate Word, take notes, then go back to task bar and hover over BR til I see the ACR screen come up. What a bummer....

I use a 13" MacBook Pro which I use when I'm travelling; a 27" iMac when I'm not. The problem occurs on the MacBook. I'm using Photoshop/Bridge CS5.1 and ACR 6.6.

Going back to your comment at the beginning of this thread, have I understood correctly that the changes that Adobe introduced were designed to help users of small screens who wanted the full screen mode ?

If this is correct then I'm not sure I understand how the “changes” introduced in ACR 6.X help small screen users. Let me explain.

With CS4 and ACR 5.7 this all works correctly. ACR opens above the Dock in ‘normal’ mode. Click the ‘full screen’ button you refer to above and the Dock disappears with ACR displaying full screen. Open with ACR in full screen mode and it fills the entire screen.

With CS5 and ACR 6.6 ACR opens in ‘normal’ mode but filling the whole screen, as if in ‘full screen’ mode but entangled in the Dock (see the screenshot below).



Clicking on the ‘full screen’ button removes the Dock but the ACR window size remains unchanged.

What I want, and I believe others will agree, is the same behaviour as ACR 5.X – as described above. This logically gives users of both modes what they need, surely ? This seems to me to be a bug where ACR does not know whether the Dock is present or not and whether it is in full screen mode or not.

Hi Simon, are you using Photoshop CS5 or Elements 10? Can you post a screenshot of what you're seeing?

ACR 6.6 on the Mac. Not fixed. ACR buttons still disappears behind the Dock. Lucky Windows users !

It worked! Thank you very much.

Make sure Photoshop CS5 is up-to-date: http://adobe.ly/PS-Up-To-Date

Camera Raw 6.4 or later should correct this problem.

I have both CS2 and CS5, both of which were purchased as upgrades. Whenever I open a DNG file on CS2, no problem -- the file window is just the right size, enabling me to access the "Open" and "Cancel" buttons at the lwer right corner; HOWEVER, it's a different situation w/ CS5 -- the DNG file window is larger than my workspace, and I cannot access those buttons. After all failed attempts at manipulating the location and size of this window, I end up closing the CS5 application. As a consequence, I am forced t open CS2 to edit a DNG file , then saving as a PDF before I can use the image in CS5. Any insights?

that means the Camera Raw engineers have done a good job and I thank them and you for your quick and helpful reply, although you shouldn't be at work on New Year's day ;>)

Other than accessing other applications, no, since you can't access/open other files while the Camera raw dialog is up.

I was surprised when the full-screen change occured with the update (macbook air, 11" screen, highest res, lion OS), but found it did solve the problems I was having with the dock and taskbar in the way. My question is - does the task bar relate directly to Camera Raw when Camera Raw is active, as the taskbar does to Photoshop, for example, when Photoshop is active, in which case the taskbar should not disappear when Camera Raw is active - or - does Camera Raw operate without the OS X taskbar (File Edit View etc.), in which case the full-screen fix is a good one (and knowing about cmd-tab is very helpful) ... thanks Jeffrey