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[Al-DC-G]

Hey guys, I am completely new to PS. When I open up photoshop I have a display Photoshop, Acrobat DC, Lightroom, and Camera RAW. The initial three give me the option to open but Camera RAW does not. Is this a subscription issues or can I do something to open this too? There's a screen grab below.

Cheers guys,

Allan 

[Mylenium · Accepted solution]

ACR is an integrated component in PS and LR. There will only be a button for it when updates are available that you may wish to install.

Mylenium

[Stephen_A_Marsh · Accepted solution]

Adding to the reply from @Mylenium – The Camera Raw plug-in is opened/invoked by opening a raw camera format file (or supported and configured JPG, TIFF or HEIC) from say Photoshop or Bridge apps. It is an "intermediate" plug-in, not one that is directly run by itself.

[Derek Cross]

In addition to the other replies, note you can open any image for processing in Camera Raw from an opened image in Photoshop: Filter > Camera Raw Filter

[Stephen_A_Marsh]

@Derek Cross – This is true, however, as you clearly wrote – it is known as the Camera Raw Filter, which only works on rendered image data already open in Photoshop. The Camera Raw Plug-in handles raw camera file data, which has to be rendered into data that Photoshop can directly work on before it is accessible to Photoshop. This is a major point of difference.

[Yechiel268873702y80]

I paid for subscription I have a problem

[Derek Cross]

It would be helpful if you elucidated!

[Yechiel268873702y80]

I paid in full and it's not working on my new device

[Derek Cross]

Have you tried resetting the Photoshop preferences back to the factory defaults?