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caligula1
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September 19, 2012
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I need help with Russell Brown 'edit in ARC' script

  • September 19, 2012
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Hi,

I installed Russell Brown's 'edit in ARC' script for CS6. It is not playing right. I am going to Window > Extensions > Edit in ARC and choosing a layer to run the script on. I then run the script; the layer converts to a smart object and opens in ARC. I process the layer in ARC and choose 'open' and when the layer opens it is smaller in size than before I ran the script (i.e. if the layer had a person's face on it the face shrank after the ARC processing.

My Adobe Camera Raw preferences are set to automatically open all supported tiffs. The file is 300 ppi, 8bits.  My ARC settings are 8 bit 300 ppi. I also tried changing the ARC settings to 16 bit, 300 ppi. I am on a mac running the trial version of photoshop CS6. I am not sure why the layer shrinks. It kind of seems like ARC is processing the file at 240 ppi or something. Can anyone help? Thanks.

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Correct answer Michael_L_Hale

I don't have CS6 so I can't test this but I think if you edit the script "Adobe ACR Editor.jsx" that was installed when you installed the CS6 panel you should be able to match the ACR ppi to your documents ppi.

The edit you need to make is to either comment out or delete the following lines.

// change image res to match defalut ACR 240
if( app.activeDocument.resolution != 240 ) {
    var docRes = app.activeDocument.resolution;
    app.activeDocument.resizeImage(undefined, undefined, 240, ResampleMethod.NONE);
}

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Michael_L_Hale
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September 20, 2012

In Dr. Brown's Edit in ARC for CS5 video he says that the script will use 240ppi in ACR. Although he doesn't say that in the CS6 panel video everytime he opens a smart object it's set to 240ppi so I would say the panel is using the save base script.

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caligula1Author
Known Participant
September 20, 2012

Thank you, Michael. I just watched the Russell Brown video again for CS6 and looked real closely at his settings in ACR and he was using 240ppi. I changed my file in image size to 240 ppi and then ran the script and the layer didn't change size this time when I ran the script.

It is kind of annoying to have to change the image size everytime I want to run this script and then change it back again as most of my files are 300 ppi. I used to run his script for edit in ARC in CS5 and recall that if I just remembered to change the settings in ARC to 300 ppi while the script was playing and before pressing 'open' that the image wouldn't change size during the raw processing, but this doesn't seem to be working in CS6. Do you know of a way to use this script and not have to change the ppi for the image to 240?

Thanks again.

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Michael_L_HaleCorrect answer
Inspiring
September 20, 2012

I don't have CS6 so I can't test this but I think if you edit the script "Adobe ACR Editor.jsx" that was installed when you installed the CS6 panel you should be able to match the ACR ppi to your documents ppi.

The edit you need to make is to either comment out or delete the following lines.

// change image res to match defalut ACR 240
if( app.activeDocument.resolution != 240 ) {
    var docRes = app.activeDocument.resolution;
    app.activeDocument.resizeImage(undefined, undefined, 240, ResampleMethod.NONE);
}
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