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December 9, 2021
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RAW Incompatibility with PSE 14

  • December 9, 2021
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I have been using Photoshop Elements 14 for a few years to import RAW format images from my Pentax K3 with no problems. Recently I jumped ship and bought a Fujifilm X S-10 using the Fuji RAF RAW format. When I tried to import RAF format images to PSE 14  I got an error message saying the images were not supported in PSE 14. I understood they would be supported, but no-go, so for a while I have been using the DNG RAW file Converter program from which I then impprt the images to PSE 14 but would prefer to use PSE 14. Can anyone help me with this? Or do I need to upgrade to a more recent version of PSE?

 

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December 12, 2021
Glenn 8675309
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December 12, 2021

How about no? 

Greg_S.
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 11, 2021

@Fred2216394120hr (aka @Frederick Jansohn ?) as I mentioned earlier, your new camera only requires ACR 13 which is built into Elements 2022.  So you would not need to download and install ACR 14.

Greg_S.
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Community Expert
December 10, 2021

I have just attempted this  workaround with Elements 14 and it doesn't work.  Although, System Info reports that ACR 14 is installed without problem, I was unable to open a raw file with it.  I get an error message that the ACR plug-in is not compatible with this version of Elements.  So, unless somebody can prove me wrong, you will have to purchase a newer version of Elements to open the raw files from your new camera.

 

And for anyone else who wants to try this workaround, I recommend that, instead of deleting it, you rename the existing Camera Raw.8bi file to ~Camera Raw.8bi.  Taking this precaution allowed me to restore the file when I confirmed that the newer plug-in wouldn't work.  If the file had been deleted, the program would have had to be uninstalled and reinstalled to get the ACR to work again.

 

Added:  @Fred2216394120hr, your camera requires ACR 13 which is installed with Elements 2022.  So there would be no need to upgrade to ACR 14.

Frederick Jansohn
Participating Frequently
December 11, 2021

Thanks very much for reply.

Loks like I have no alternative but to upgrade to the latest PSE!

Cheers,

Fred Jansohn

Glenn 8675309
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December 10, 2021

Go here, download ACR 14.0 , your camera is supported with acr 14.0.

https://helpx.adobe.com/camera-raw/kb/camera-raw-plug-in-installer.html

Install it.

Search for this file: CAMERA RAW.8bi (the date of the file should be 9 / 30 / 2021)
COPY THAT FILE ONCE YOU FIND IT. 

PASTE IT HERE: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Plug-Ins\Elements 20\File Formats
That location is for pse 2022-- LOOK FOR THE FILE FOLDER APPROPRIATE TO YOUR VERSION.  SAME LOCATION DEPICTED ABOVE, BUT IT WON'T SAY elements 20 IT WILL say whatever version 14 is listed as.

It goes in the file formats folder.
IF YOU HAVE ANY OTHER files with the .8bi extension in that same location: DELETE THEM.

RESTART THE PROGRAM.

Sit back and say "WOW! That's what I'm talkin' bout!"