Adobe Camera Raw 16.0 and PSE 2024

Report · Oct 23, 2023

Yes, you can update ACR to 16.0 in PSE 2024 if you wish. There is no reason to do it, if you do not need it (Such as you literally just bought a brand new digital camera yesterday). No, you do not need it "because it's the latest version." No, you are not "missing out" if you don't get it, and manually install it.

I went the manual install route just to see if it could be done.

Report · Oct 23, 2023

One advantage of upgrading to camera raw 16.0 is the stuttering with the Crop Tool is gone as well as the Zoom and Pan Tool works right.

I'm guessing the GPU usage is turned on in ACR 16.0 whereas earlier versions the GPU usage was off.

Report · Oct 27, 2023

I upgraded to Camera Raw 16.0 with PSE 2024 for the Mac to support my Sony A7 Compact ii. I edited a bunch of photos with no problem. However, PSE could not open one of the photos from the initial Raw screen, and told me that I had to install Camera Raw, which was clearly already there. I had previously opened 6 similar raw images (Sony ARW format), so my best guess is that I hit some kind of memory limit for PSE 2024. I'll edit the other six pictures and then restart PSE, and wouldn't be surprised if I can then open the image that caused the problem. I'll update my post to report what happens, but the Adobe PSE engineering team should take a look at their memory allocation and see if there is a leak.

Report · Oct 27, 2023

Two ideas:

- First, ARW is not a raw file format only a tag to identify the Sony origin. Each new camera has its own raw format.

https://helpx.adobe.com/camera-raw/kb/camera-raw-plug-supported-cameras.html

- Then if you install PSE2023 (and I suppose PSE2024), the ACR plugin is not installed by default, you must go to the Help menu to install it.

I suppose that you have followed strictly the workaround to make the PSE ACR compatible with your new camera. As stated by Glenn, that will not provide the advanced functions (masking...) of the full ACR version.

Report · Oct 27, 2023

Your reply was not responsive to the issue I raised. As noted, I edited "a bunch of photos with no problem. However, PSE could not open one of the photos from the initial Raw screen, and told me that I had to install Camera Raw, which was clearly already there." Of course, I had correctly installed ACT 16.0 with PSE 2024 or else I would not have been able to edit the other photos. It turned out that my initial guess was also incorrect, since I was able to edit other images besides the one that gave me the message to install ACR. So it was just this single photo that gave me a problem. However, I was able to open the file with Photoshop 2024 (not Elements) and edited the photo with no problem. So the ARW file is apparently handled correctly in Photoshop but not in PSE 2024. Both of them are using the same version of ACR.

Report · Oct 27, 2023

GoldMine3,

Had you already used Photoshop 2024's camera raw 16 to edit the arw file that wouldn't open in photoshop elements camera raw 16?

Report · Oct 27, 2023

No. I tried Photoshop 24 after failing with Elements 2024. For Elements 2024, I downloaded ACR 16.0 and put the plugin in

/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Plug-Ins/24.0/File Formats

It checked out with the CameraRaw plugin item on the Elements 2024 menu.

Funny thing is that 49 of the 50 images taken with the new Sony A7 Compact M2 worked just fine with Elements 2024, and only one failed. General weirdness.

Report · Oct 27, 2023

They technically are the same version of ACR, however, the version of acr in PS has many more options than the version found in acr in PSE.

One thing to try: just change the name of that one file that gives you problems try not to have any special characters in the name (&%#@- stuff like that.

Report · Oct 27, 2023

Open any image in ACR. Click on the gear in the upper right corner. It opens the preference file of ACR

Select what the arrow is pointing to:

Once you do: restart the editor, try processing multiples again and see if it works now. I predict it will.

Report · Dec 27, 2024

I have OSX 12.7.6 running PSE2024. ACR17 does not install as it is not compatible with Monterey but 16 is. However I cant seem to find a download link so can any one please post the download link for ACR16?

Report · Dec 27, 2024

Do this and you should be fine:

Last updated on Jan 12, 2022 | Also Applies to Elements Organizer, Premiere Elements

The following is a workaround to update Camera Raw within Elements. It is recommended to wait for Camera Raw updates within the product for issue fixes.

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

Follow the on-screen instructions.

Once installed successfully, close the installer window.

Navigate to the following folder:

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.

Prior to PSE 2024 PSE used a version numbering system that made the actual version number “2 OFF” from the Product name. FOR EXAMPLE: pse 2021 was version 19: pse 2022 was version 20, and pse 2023 was version 21. THERE IS NO VERSION 22 OR 23.

PSE 2025 is version 25.

Report · Dec 28, 2024

Hello Glenn Many thanks for your suggestion. however on my system there was no .8bi file and no folder named

" /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Plug-ins/Elements<Version Number>/File Formats"

See my reply to Jeff Arola

Best wishes

Phil

Report · Dec 27, 2024

Philip Underwood,

Since macOS Monterey 12.7.6 doesn't support Camera Raw 17.x.x you can download the Camera Raw 16.5 installer

https://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/photoshop/cameraraw/mac/16.x/CameraRaw_16_5.dmg