Photo / image viewer in PS Elements?

https://forums.adobe.com/people/david+k  wrote I just opened my PSE, and when to the File menu, and for my images, I can either open or open in RAW. If I select Open in RAW, it opens a screen which is the Windows "file viewer" which is the same view you see when you try to open files in any program. In PS (full) it had a dedicated 'viewer' where you could look through folders of your images before you opened them. I can't seem to find a similar feature / function in PSE. Am I just not seeing it? Or? Thanks, d.

'Open in ACR' means you want to open non raw files in the ACR editing space (mostly jpegs, but also non layered tiff or psd). Raw files are automatically opened in that editing space. So, 'Open in ACR' works exactly the same as the simple 'Open' command, it uses the Windows Explorer as your browser.

Elements has a different interface and the main difference is that Elements has two components: the editor and the organizer. The organizer is the preferred solution: it's like Lightroom for library management. The normal workflow is to browse and organize, tag etc your pictures, and open them from there in the editor. You don't need the Windows explorer. Like Lightroom, the organizer is based on catalogs, whith a powerful database. All the files you want to manage are 'imported' (indexed) in the catalog and a thumbnail is created for each file.

There is no way to open a jpeg in the ACR module from the organizer. That's why you have to select your files in the editor in the Windows explorer and you have to use the editor command: 'open in ACR'.