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February 12, 2022
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Camera Raw + Photoshop Elements

  • February 12, 2022
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Why is the camera raw plugin that is available with Photoshop Elements 2022 so slow in comparison with the camera raw plugin provided with Photoshop ?

And why there is no masking features ? 😞

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Jeff Arola
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 13, 2022

A while back there was an issue with the cropping being slow with the photoshop elements acr version and from that we (fellow photoshop elements users) were able to determine is that the photoshop elements version of acr indeed does not use the GPU like photoshop's acr does. So that would be a major reason your seeing the difference in speed between the pse acr and photoshop acr.

 

Also of note is that the photoshop acr version has a gpu on/off preference, so the gpu preference in the pse preferences does not affect the camera raw plugin.

 

If your interested in reading about how camera raw uses the gpu:

https://helpx.adobe.com/camera-raw/kb/acr-gpu-faq.html

 

 

TheDigitalDog
Inspiring
February 12, 2022

It's simply not the same just as Elements is not the same as Photoshop in feature parity. 

Author “Color Management for Photographers" & "Photoshop CC Color Management/pluralsight"
Participating Frequently
February 12, 2022

Well I can understand that theyhave disabled some functions of the original camera raw such as masking. But why making it slower ???

Participating Frequently
February 12, 2022

BTW I think it's the same plugin, they have just hidden some functions