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Kevinmastman
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July 2, 2010
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how do you open a photo in Camera Raw without bridge [2010]

  • July 2, 2010
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Hello,

 

I don't use Bridge, I use Aperture 3 to organize my photos.  I use the "edit with photoshop" function to send the photos to photoshop.  When I do this though, my raw files do not automatically open with camera raw, as they would if I just opened them through photoshop itself. 

 

How can I open the camera raw plugin from within photoshop?  or How can I tell aperture to open the files with camera raw before opening photoshop?

 

Thanks,
Kevin Mastman

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Anonymous
July 3, 2010

I've worked with exactly one client who uses Aperture as a front-end in place of Bridge;  I believe with this workflow Aperture is the raw converter, and the images sent to Photoshop are essentially tifs.  I.E., Aperture replaces both Bridge and ACR, and its only output for "edit with Photoshop" are rendered non-raw images.  As I remember, the only colorspace available was Adobe1998 for the tifs pushed to Photoshop.

Richard Southworth

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Anonymous
July 3, 2010

Use File > Open As... in Photoshop and pick Camera Raw from the drop-down choices.


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    sippog
    Participant
    October 30, 2012

    Macs don't do "open as" - only Windoze machines

      Noel Carboni
      Noel Carboni
      Legend
      November 9, 2012

      Hey sippog, instead of throwing out a childish term designed to irritate half the users of Photoshop, why not actually describe how it does work for a Mac?  Perhaps something along the lines of:

      Yeah, I'm probably justly rebuked but I do get pretty irritated myself by that familiar lack of awareness that there is any alternative to the Microsoft universe  (but not forever, it seems, and maybe not for that much longer).

      Actually the solution you suggest, and which I have used in the past, doesn't work with my spanking new copy of PS6 which is why I was casting about for another way - in the end I had to open from Bridge.

      Anyone else found PS6 a mite buggy?


      Fair enough.  I dug that image up from some old reference material.  I don't know how it works specifically on Ps CS6 - I apologize for that.  You haven't copied plug-ins from an older version have you?  That's been known to mess up file opening abilities.

      Regarding being it buggy...  Have you updated to 13.0.1?  They did fix a fair number of things in that revision.

      And by the way, I agree, Microsoft has shot itself in the foot (actually I think they've pretty much blown off everything below the waist) with Windows 8.

      -Noel

      P.S.,  By the way, John Joslyn has left this world, so I don't think he's going to be making any changes in the way he answers.

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