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PSE 2023 - Camera Raw

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November 26, 2024
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Using PSE 2023, Mac OS 15.1.1 M3Max CPU with 32 GB RAM

I have a 3.3GB .tiff panorama file from Photoshop from a colleague. I try to open it in PSE and I get message:

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I have previously installed Camera Raw, but I now do it again, with following result:

I try to open pano file via "FILE > Open in Camera Raw"

and I again get message:

How do I make this work properly instead of being locked into this loop?

Problem or error

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Jeff Arola

Community Expert

Photoshop has a 300,000 x 300,000 px limit for many file formats that support it including Tiff.

Tiff files also have a 4 GB file size limitation

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/image-size-resolution.html

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/file-formats.html

I believe Camera Raw has a max pixel size of 65,000

Glenn 8675309

Legend

The solution I posted below will not work in this case : the image pixel size is too large for PSE, even too large for Photoshop.

If you haven't been able to update the Camera Raw plug-in for Elements, follow these steps, Primarily because your new camera needs a newer version of ACR to support RAW files:

Download and install the latest Camera Raw version from https://helpx.adobe.com/camera-raw/kb/camera-raw-plug-in-installer.html

Quit all Adobe applications.

On macOS, double-click the .dmg file to mount it.

On Windows double-click the downloaded .zip file to unzip it.
(Windows might unzip the file for you.)

On macOS, double-click the .pkg file to start the installer.

On Windows, double-click the resulting .exe file to start the installer.

Follow the on-screen instructions.

Once installed successfully, close the installer window.

Navigate to the following folder:
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On macOS: /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Plug-ins/CC/File Formats

Copy the Camera Raw plug-in (just the .8bi file) from the CC > File Formats folder that is mentioned in the above step.

Navigate to the following folder:

On macOS: /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Plug-ins/Elements<Version Number>/File Formats

Replace the existing Camera Raw plugin in Elements<Version Number> folder with the plug-in that you copied earlier.

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johnr99037361Author

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Glenn 8675309 Thanks for your replies. I saw those instructions a couple of days ago, buried more than a little a bit in the Adobe web site.

I am using PSE 2023.

I easily found the Library>Application Support>Adobe>Plug-ins>CC>File Formats folder and it contained a single file "Camera Raw.plugin"

I could not affirmatively determine if this was an ".8bi" file or not. [Given its location I leaned toward thinking that it was.]

Furthermore, I did not find an "Elements 23" folder at all.

So I stopped until I re-read your post, and then looked more closely at the "About Photoshop Elements" screen, on which in small print PSE23 is also referred to as 21.0.

I thought that Adobe had ceased the -2 steps nomenclature, but I guess not.

After I copied and pasted the newer plug-in file, it seems the Camera Raw.plugin function works,

enabling my opening some big files. But many do not open 'no-how/no-way'. I suspect this is a pixel width limitation.

As I noted in another post here, one of my 'middle-size' files is a 61-image pano output from PanoramaStudio4, resulting in a pano image 50,941x21577 [1,099MP].

The developer of PanoramaStudio4 separately emailed me that PSE has a 30.000-pixel limit, but he seemed to think that PS did not. So far, I've not been able to empirically test either limit.

At this point I think I will try the PS 7-day-trial version to see if it offers any greater actual functionality for my purposes. Many thanks to all who read and replied to my perplexity.

John

Jeff Arola

Community Expert

If in Photoshop Elements you go to Adobe Photoshop Elements 2023 Editor>About Plug-in>Camera Raw, what Version does it say?

What if you just use File>Open instead opf Open in Camera Raw?

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johnr99037361Author

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Greg_S.

Community Expert

I didn't read your post closely enough. The file is a tiff file? What are the pixel dimensions?

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johnr99037361Author

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Pixel dimensions are: 50,941 x 21,577 [i.e., 1,099 MP]

I stitch large numbers [here N=61] of high-quality images into macro-panoramas to document & archive archaeological records of native rock art. I am ususally able to capture whaat I need within 500-600MP, which PSE does not seem to choke on. But I have two much wider panels I want to preserve the high-definition in.