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New Tabs in Elements 26 Camera Raw

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January 11, 2026
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I have had Elements 26 for about a month now, and started using Camera Raw more often. (mainly to see if the setting the Details slider to 100% enables the so called deconvolution processing) While doing this I see that Camera Raw (I have version 18) now includes three new tabs: Denoise (default slider at 50%), Raw Details, and Super Resolution. While I thought they were only in FULL Camera Raw, not in Elements, yet here they are. Not that they do anything, and not that Adobe has updated their Elements Camera Raw page instructions either to explain their presence. As is all three tabs have a black triangle with an exclamation point inside. So they very well may be disabled. Howevere why show them at all? After all the other full Photoshop Raw functions dont show up. All of my GPU capabilities are green, turning off the GPU acceleration on or off makes no difference, editing jpg vs raw makes no difference, and photo size/resolution makes no difference either. So are there any explanations as to why the new tabs are there, or how to make them work?

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Jeff Arola

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I don't think Adobe ever intended for the Photoshop Elements version of Camera Raw to have the ability to do Denoise, Raw Details or Super Resolution and either Adobe just forgot to remove those three sliders or it's not possible to remove them without a major programing hassle.

We have a bunch of Macs and Windows machines ranging from high to low end and none of them are able to use those three features in Photoshop Elements Camera Raw Detail section.

To really use them, your machine needs to a have more than an average graphics card, since those three functions are almost entirely dependent on the GPU (graphics card).

Hopefully someone from Adobe will chime in with a explanation.

Glenn 8675309

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All that stuff works fine in Photoshop. I think that Adobe would have advertised the super resolution more as being available in PSE, and I can't find such statements about it- except for those pointing to photoshop.

99jon

Legend

I would think it's a bug. For example on W11 the sliders show as expected - see image. On Mac OS with M1 chip the PSCC sliders are showing with warning triangles. Furthermore the masking, detail and radius sliders are missing.

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Glenn 8675309

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What you posted does not appear to be acr 18.0 or greater- I don't see the super resolution adjustment.

I amnaully installed ACR 18.1- ACR 18.0 has the same warning triangles.

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cz35895897Author

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Based on the troubleshooting guidelines in the answers above I looked at a file in the Adobe Appdata CameraRaw log files, the "camera raw log latest v1.txt" (below). It may contain a clue as seen in red below excerpt. While I dont have TempDisableGPU2 or TempDisableGPU3 files to delete as originally suggested, the log file refers to "cr_config" file. Unfortunately I dont have this file to delete anywhere either. I certainly dont have more than the one GPU. It is a Raptor Lake (newer CPU) and not an Alder Lake as identified in the Adobe log file.

PS Does anyone running Photoshop Elements have the three tabs WITHOUT the triangles and exlamation points? What video card and cpu are you using?

"camera raw log latest v1.txt" excerpt

GPU primary driver version: 32.0.101.7040
GPU device count: 1
GPU device names: Intel(R) Graphics
*** GPU Warning: GPU3 disabled via cr_config at init time. ***
GPU Init Status (part 1): I2_GPU2
GPU3 Hard Status Result (part 1): fail_config_disable
GPU3 Soft Status Result (part 1): not_checked
GPU4 Hard Status Result (part 1): fail_no_gpu3
GPU4 Soft Status Result (part 1): fail_insufficient_memory
Masking AI inference running on CPU. Omitted AlderLake 64EU GPU with driver: 32.0.101.7040
ML inference: default device (CPU)

Glenn 8675309

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Glenn 8675309

Legend

Sometimes thosae triangles appear if the image is reaally small.

side note: it works fine in photoshop.

I'm going to uninstall and reinstall PSE 2026 next.

Glenn 8675309

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I did a total gut- and used a computer restore point, I manually installed the latest version, I changed the bit depth from 16 to 8, I've tried a large image, I've tried a small image, I've tried dragging ACR to another monitor, I've physically unplugged my second monitor- I've downladed really big PNG files to test- The warning triangles are still there.

I've gone as a far as turning off all security features of win11, turning off my anti virus and restarting the editor- still the same results.

I'm at a loss here- I've tried everything I can think of.

Glenn 8675309

Legend

Yes there is an explanation, from about 4 years ago. I'm experiencing the same issue right now.

Read this post, it should help:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/super-resolution-in-camera-raw-fails-with-warning-hardware-enhance-details-requires-a-graphics-card/m-p/11902436?profile.language=en#M522153

Glenn 8675309

Legend

Those instructions apear to be for macs. I'm manually installing ACR 18.1. My internet is relly wonky right now so it may be a while.

This is how you manually install the lattest version of ACR:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-elements-discussions/manually-install-adobe-camera-raw-acr-nicer-to-look-at/td-p/14539971

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