cannot open tif in CR

Question

I've converted jpg scans in the past to tif, and opened in CR but that is not happening now. Have checked all the settings. I opened directly in to CR not needing Bridge to do it, besides, there is no right click option to open in Camera Raw instead of PS in Bridge or anywhere.  I scanned to jpg, 1.2GB grayscale file converted to RGB (3x file size) 8bit saved as .tif. Not opening. I've done this before, it was not a problem before. What changed? What am I missing? None of the suggested shortcuts or myriad of ways suggested to open a file in CR work.

RAB123 · Accepted Answer

The option to open in Camera Raw is there on Windows as well.

If the option to open Tiffs with settings/open all supported Tiffs is not enabled in the Camera Raw preferences, the Bridge menu item will still be visible, but greyed out.

If this menu item disappeared, resetting the Bridge preferences might have fixed it, or you may have a bad install.

When uninstalling, you get the option to remove or keep preferences. If you chose to keep them, they will be re-used for the new installation, and if they were corrupted in the first place, they will still be corrupted after reinstalling.

Generally speaking, reinstalling doesn't often fix any problems.

The majority of issues are related to corrupted preferences or the GPU.

Thanks! The "open in Bridge" does not appear on some files becasue the files are too big. I did five scans, 4800 dpi, 3200, 2400, 1200, 800. Only the 2400dpi scans and smaller will open in CR. Those image do have a right click Bridge option, the larger ones do not. I need 4800 for max resolution but 2400 will do for now. So it looks like CR will open a file larger than 320mb (20,401 x 16,093) but not as big as 570mb (27,202 x 21,457). see attachment. All files are 8bit grayscale.

Conrad_C · Answer

…there is no right click option to open in Camera Raw instead of PS in Bridge or anywhere.
By @RAB123

Camera Raw is never expected to appear in a context menu as an application option. Camera Raw is not a standalone application, it’s only a plug-in that needs a host application. The OS only lists full applications in a context menu, so the OS will never list Camera Raw there.

Because Camera Raw is only a plug-in and not a standalone application, if you want to open an image in Camera Raw, you must open it through any application that can host the Camera Raw plug-in. For example, all of these methods will open a TIFF in Camera Raw if it’s set up to open TIFF files:

Start in Photoshop, choose File > Open, select the TIFF image.
Start Adobe Bridge, select the TIFF image, and choose File > Open in Camera Raw.
Start in Adobe After Effects, select the TIFF image, choose Edit > Edit Original. (This actually starts Photoshop which then starts Camera Raw.)

In your screen shot, what I would do is choose Adobe Photoshop from the context menu. That would go through the first workflow above: Photoshop will open, it will detect it’s a TIFF file, Camera Raw is set to open TIFF files, so Camera Raw will open with the TIFF file. I confirmed that it works that way on my computer (although it’s a Mac I think it should work the same way).

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