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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

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      ohnoezitasploded1
      Participating Frequently
      June 2, 2013

      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.


      I'm able to open individual photos as RAW files from within Photoshop, but it won't let me open up a group of photos in RAW from Bridge.  Any ideas?

      I guess the larger issue for me is that there are times when the Camera RAW toolsets and workflow really work for my photo editing tasks, where I want to quickly apply corrections to the images prior to opening them in Ps for detailed touch-up work.  It would be nice if they just offered Camera Raw as a stand-alone product, rather than this weird value-added utility (and, I've never had much use for Bridge).

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