How to open camera raw

[williamd53976374]

When I try opening camera raw in bride it says:

Camera Raw editing requires that a qualifying product has been launched at least once to enable this feature.

How do I solve this.

I am on an imac 5k and do not own photoshop or lightroom.

I understand this might be a stupid question but please reply as the adobe tech support team only asked me about account issues when I tried asking them this!

[Just Shoot Me · Accepted solution]

Then you can't use Adobe Camera RAW.

It is only available if you have Valid, Registered, version of PS installed for the version of ACR you want to use.

[KoadSall]

I have bought, in bundle with Dell PSX15, PS Elements15: is this app valid to activate CC RAW or not ?

[D Fosse]

Bridge may be "free" in the sense that it doesn't require any licensing on its own. But it's intended as an integral part of a CC subscription, not as a standalone file browser. And certainly not as a free raw converter.

Bridge can access ACR as a matter of workflow efficiency. But ACR is still a Photoshop plugin and doesn't work without Photoshop.

[williamd53976374]

Thanks,

How hard was it for adobe support to explain this to me instead of waffling on about irrelevant issues??