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Bridge's Camera Raw requires PS-entitled plan

Forum|Forum|10 months ago
June 26, 2025
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Hi,

there are a lot of things that my mind can't understand about the Adobe behaviour.

If you're paying the photography plan that includes Bridge why you're not able to use Camera Raw? Why I've to pay Photoshop to use Camera Raw if ACR is also part of Bridge? ACR is not Photoshop, why this limitation?!?

I'm very disappointed!!!

macOS

Correct answer Rob_Cullen

OK, so the site in the given link says this-

"To enable Camera Raw editing in Bridge, you need an active subscription of Adobe Photoshop or Photoshop Lightroom Classic".

It is still my belief you need Photoshop to obtain the full working version of ACR, and the Lightroom Plan is not sufficient.

(Note: Plans have changed in January 2025- after this article was published, so it might be in error.)

I will wait to see if there is a more authorative reply to your post. Thanks.

Rob_Cullen

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My understanding is that if you have the Lightroom Plan then Photoshop is not included in that Plan.

ACR is a Plugin for Photoshop, so I would not expect to have ACR without Photoshop installed.

The "Lightroom" apps have camera raw rendering embedded in the app code and do not need an independent version of ACR.

I can be corrected if wrong.

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.3, Photoshop 27.5, ACR 18.3, Lightroom 9.3, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.3 .

elianoimperatoAuthor

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Bridge has its ACR and there is no sense to have Bridge without ACR. Photoshop is another app to do other things. In any case the answer is in the page that Nikunj linked here [ https://adobe.ly/4k99s08 ], so I think you're wrong.

Rob_Cullen

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OK, so the site in the given link says this-

"To enable Camera Raw editing in Bridge, you need an active subscription of Adobe Photoshop or Photoshop Lightroom Classic".

It is still my belief you need Photoshop to obtain the full working version of ACR, and the Lightroom Plan is not sufficient.

(Note: Plans have changed in January 2025- after this article was published, so it might be in error.)

I will wait to see if there is a more authorative reply to your post. Thanks.

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.3, Photoshop 27.5, ACR 18.3, Lightroom 9.3, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.3 .

nikunj.m

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Hi, thanks for reaching out! I see you have the Lightroom plan active on your account.

If you have Lightroom Classic installed on the computer, you should be able to access Camera Raw through Adobe Bridge (which is primarily used for organizing your files). You can check: https://adobe.ly/4k99s08

Thanks,
Nikunj

elianoimperatoAuthor

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Thank you for the answer Nikunj. I tried the steps on the page you suggested but I've still the same problem: "Camera raw editing requires that a qualifying product has been launched at least once to enable this feature".

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