Also LR has a built-in Camera Raw so what you downloaded was for Photoshop and didn't affect how LR worked.  The only thing that CR would have been useful for was the .5 version on the end would tell you that you'd need at least LR 6.5 (not 6.0) to be useful on the same set of cameras, but since you downloaded 6.14 your LR supports even more cameras. ... View more

Instead of turning sharpening down to zero, the thing to adjust is a high Mask value, using the Alt/Opt key while you drag the slider so only edges are sharpened (outlined in white) not all the noise in between. And for a more general photography subject, why would you be using your lens wide open (f/2.8) and then complaining the images lack contrast and detail and expecting the software to make up for it.  A wide-open aperture is likely softer than using it one or two stops closed down and an eqivalently slower shutter.  Unless it was windy and you were trying to reduce motion blur, optimize the sharpness with lower ISO and an aperture a few clicks in from wide open (at least). A wide aperture is for use in dark settings to reduce ISO noise and motion blur, or to intentially blur the background behind a sharp foreground subject.   ... View more

The example image I showed was using LrC defaults for this camera. The default sharpening is 40, among other things. ... View more

Using the latest LrC 10.2 (ACR 13.2) the image looks sharp like you want on my computer. If your Detail panel settings aren't different, I'd suspect you are using less-than-fullsize Smart Previews somehow, or there is something wrong with your cache or graphics driver, but I don't think it's a universal problem with LrC, just something local to your computer.   It would be helpful for you to include your image-size, version of LrC, Basic and Detail settings, at least, so it's easier to tell what might be different: ... View more

What version of Camera Raw is being used in conjunction with Photoshop ELEMENTS 2021?  Can and is your Elements to Camera Raw 13.1?  I remember some years ago when Elements would only get Camera Raw updates until the summer and then you had to upgrade to a new version in late winter for new Camera Raw updates.  Perhaps things are different now, I haven't used Elements in several years. -- Here is a sample Z6 II raw file open in the Camera Raw 13.1 plug-in hosted by Photoshop 2021 (22.1.1): The sample raw file is the last one on this page:   https://www.photographyblog.com/previews/nikon_z6_ii_photos ... View more

Copy-Paste a screenshot of your full ACR window into a reply, here, with enough extreme adjustments to turn on the red highlight clipping indicator for some pixels of an image.  Choose an image that can be publicly viewed on these forums. ... View more

Do the blue or red pixel-clipping overlays show up on the image when the sliders are adjusted to extremes (Contrast at max, Exposure at max or min) even though the little histogram triangles remain black, or is there no clipping? What colorspace do you have set in your workflow options?  as asked in the previous reply. The Lab colorspace takes quite extreme adjustments before it'll show clipping.  sRGB is much smaller and therefore easier to see clipping with extreme toning adjustments. A 32-bit HDR image might not show clipping very easily.  An 8-bit non-raw image (like a JPG) will show clipping more easily. ... View more

Also, can you explain what isn't working about the clipping indicators?   Is it that the triangles don't have a surrounding white box when clipping is on and a dotted box when off? Is it that the triangles don't have color or white in them when clipping begins if you push or pull exposure and contrast significantly? Is it that the red for highlights or the blue for shadow clipping doesn't show on the image? You also asked how to turn clipping on and off besides clicking.  If you hover over the indicators on the histogram it tells you that the O key toggles highlight (Over) clipping and the and the U key shows shadow (Under) clipping. Finally, the only thing that should change when the clipping indicators are on or off is whether you see blue for shadow clipping and red for highlight clipping in the main image area.  The triangles should always have non-black color in them if clipping is occurring. And there being color in the triangles don't always synchronize in blue or red in the image. ... View more

The clipping warnings show what colors are off the ends of the histogram, which is also usually indicated by a spike of those colors at the very ends, athough the clipping indicators may come on before enough colors pile-up to show a spike.   Along the lines of what TheDigitalDog is asking about: The clipping is in relation to the Color Space in ACR's Workflow options. What colorspace do you have set?  Make note of what it is, so you can set it back to this, then: Try sRGB or AdobeRGB or ProPhotoRGB and see if the clipping indicators show with these colorspaces.   ... View more

By "automatic capture sharpening" he means the sharpening you get at the original pixel resolution when the sharpening amount slider is not zero.  The default is a slider value of 40 out of 150, so it is "automatically" on by default. The "fly-out menu" is available from the three dots at the right:     Besides "capture sharpening" at the original image pixel resolution, the there is also "output sharpening," after the image has been resized to the output dimensions, it can be sharpened again.  This setting is on the output or export panel during a save or export of adjusted images. ... View more

The gear at the top and three-dots along the side as well as three-dots in the browser-profiles area, all lead to other menus: Otherwise you might need to give us a hint about what options or operations you're expecting whatever flyout menu to lead to. ... View more

If Adobe can make money porting to Linux I'm sure they would, but with the current market share of less than 1% it's unlikely especially since the development effort is likely more rather than less due to all the flavors of Linux, and imagine all the driver issues where not using the GPU for many things causes excessive slowness: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share       For the desktop-specific market share, Linux is less than 2%. ... View more

Unlock the Aspect Ratio padlock to get arbtrary ratios: I'm not seeing slowness in the crop tool but that can have to do with monitor resolution and GPU compatibility as well as overall horsepower of the computer so your experience may be different than mine in that regard. Personally I don't like having to move clear into the corner, above the histogram to get to those toolbar buttons that are now on the right.  I wish there was a choice of top-left/right/center vs left-top/center vs right-top/center, similar to being able to move the filmstrip from the side to the bottom, and I'd choose top-center for the toolbar instead of the right-top where it is, now. ... View more

Also, if you've registered your Elements 7 software with Adobe, the serial number might still be available if you login at: https://www.adobe.com/ then go to https://account.adobe.com/products   ... View more

If PSE7 is currently installed, you can try running the Belarc Security Advisor on the computer and see if it can find the serial number.  This has worked for me in the past for some Adobe products; however, Elements 7 is quite old. ... View more

Lightroom Classic uses local storage but to use it your LR Classic program has to have access to that local storage so there's no way to access those photos elsewhere on other devices. ... View more

Adobe thinks: If you care enough to shoot RAW, then you care enough to spend extra money on Photoshop. Elements is cheap and is designed for JPG processing.  Adobe makes the raw workflow cumbersome. Photoshop is expensive.  The raw workflow is easlier. Lightroom is easiest if you don't need to do post-processing in Photoshop or Elements. ... View more

It's been a while since I used that version so I am unsure where the option is, but I would expect there is a place to License the Software and you can input your serial number(s) again. ... View more

Was the SD card set to writeprotect so ACR couldn't write XMPs?  Have you checked to see if you have changes set to write to the camera-raw database instead of XMPs?  If it is you shouldn't lose work, just not have the XMPs where the images are. ... View more

Your question is about PS's ACR 12.2, but LR has similar capabilities and the What's New for Lightroom Classic 9.2 indicates the old defaults aren't compatable with the .2 version and you should create new defaults:  https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/help/whats-new/2020-2.html#raw-defaults   For Camera Raw, to make the current image settings as a new default you need two steps: 1) Create a preset with the current settings: 2)  Set a preset as a new default: Option 1: Option 2:   There may be other ways but this is what I discovered just now. ... View more

Glad you got things to work on both computers.   The error you were getting suggests you have an older OS and were clicking INTO the folder instead of just selecting it, OR you were accidentally using an older DNG Converter on the tower.   On my Windows 10 March 2020 update, I couldn't get the latest DNG Converter 12.2 to give me the error message even if I clicked INTO the folder rather than just selecting the folder name, so either Adobe changed something about the selection process or a Windows 10 update did. ... View more

It's unlikely Adobe will answer your question, more than above, until there is a solution.   However, I noticed LR and PS were updated to support the 1Dx III a couple weeks ago, but my Premier was updated only just today.  Have you tried Premier since its more recent update, something more recent than two weeks ago? ... View more

Only DNGs will work in older PS so you need to copy the DNGs to the tower and open them in the older PS.   The DNG Converter doesn't magically cause the ARWs to work in the older PS, the DNG Converter creates DNG copies of the ARWs and those DNG copies, not the ARWs are what can be opened in the older PS.   I am repeating this bit of what I said earlier because you say you copied the ARWs to the tower and they don't work without specifying that "don't work" means. ... View more

Are you using the plug-in on the way into PS or the filter within PS?   Adjustments to an image with the plug-in are typically saved into the image file or into a sidecar file and reapplyed when reopened in PS; however, adjustments made with the filter within PS aren't saved that way once you exit PS. ... View more

What are you doing, specifically what steps, that "doesn't work" on the tower?  By specific steps, I mean are you double-clicking on the DNG from File Explorer (and what happens), or are you opening Bridge on the folder (and what happens if you right-click and Open in Camera Raw...), or are you using File / Open in PS and browse over to the folder of DNGs and double-click to select one to open (and what does it say if you try)?   In any case, only the DNGs will work on an older version of Photoshop, not the ARWs.    BTW, seeing the plue PS icon for ARW files merely means that Photoshop is registered as the default opener l(means what opens when you double-click from File Explorer) for files with an ARW extension, not that PS knows how to open the RX100M7 ARWs specifically, as it would not, if it's CS6. ... View more

I have a Canon camera and here is an example of me selecting the folder containing the raws in the DNG Converter Source Folder selection if I were selecting the SD card as the source and destination folder for the conversion:   All I have to do is click the Convert button.   Now, normally, I would have already copied the raw photos to my hard drive and do the conversion there, so this is just an example, but the same single-click-select applies.   I'm using the DNG Converter 12.2, where you need at least 11.4.1 to convert the RX100M7 raws. ... View more

I believe all the OP is asking for is when you open an image into Photoshop from ACR, two layers are produced, the first or lower layer the image with ACR defaults, and the second or top is the layer with the current ACR settings.     The way it works, now, is one layer, with the current settings, is available when you open into PS.     There might be a way to use a smart object, as you describe, to accomplish the OP's dual-layer situation: Open a raw image in ACR, then without changing anything, Press Shift / Open Object to open the image with default ACR settings as a smart object into PS, then Ctrl-Shift-Alt (or Cmd / Shift / Opt on Mac) N E.  The creates a new blank layer and rasterizes the lower layer into it. Drag the rasterized layer below the smart object layer in the layer pallet. Now to adjust in ACR, double-click the smart-object's thumbnail to open in ACR and make the adjustments.   One note is that you cannot just duplicate the smart object layer because each will point back to the same raw file and the same XMP file with adjustments rather than be independent layers with their own adjustments.   Besides just creating a default-settings layer below the smart-object layer, you could click into the smart-object, click Auto tone, then exit out, then Ctrl-Shift-Alt N E the auto-settings into another raster layer, drag it below, then click back into the smart-object, and reset it back to defaults or leave it at Auto and do more adjustments.   I think if I was doing this, i.e. opening the default and an adjusted image into PS as layers, I start with Lightroom, which has the same settings as ACR, make some adjustments, and if I wanted to have the original settings as a layer, make a virtual copy, reset it's settings so it'd have the ACR-default settings, then select both the original and virtual copy and choose Open as Layers into PS, or whatever the right-click option is called.  Neither layer would be an adjustable-raw, anymore, just a rasterized image, but this is the same as the OP's scenario. ... View more

An easier way to solve this might have been to install the latest DNG Converter that matches the version of Camera Raw because both put the profiles in the same location so if they were removed by mistake by an install then reinstalling the DNG Converter would have put them back. ... View more

Do the steps in FloraMC's answer from May 2nd.   From the discussion between then and now, it appears that one or more of the ACR 11.x versions didn't correctly apply Auto to all the photos selected on the filmstrip and instead just did the first one.   I just tested in ACR 12.1 in Photoshop and Auto is being applied correctly, again.   As far as Gary's answer, it has you applying Auto in the camera raw filter from within Photoshop after the image has already been converted from raw to rgb using ACR default settings and then opened into photoshop.  This is not the same thing as applying Auto to the raw files and saving all within camera raw which is what the original post was about and the problem was due to a bug that seems to have been fixed.   ... View more

What happens when you try the patch installer?  What error?   You should unzip the setup.zip to a new folder and run things from there, instead of running directly from the ZIP file. ... View more