Thanks for your feedback.
I know about Photoshop versus Camera Raw.
My questions has to do with an automated workflow that used to work but has recently stopped working. My instinct is that something changed during recent Adobe updates, because not too long ago it worked perfectly. So I want to switch to another technique and I was told that AppleScript is probably a good choice.
How does AppleScript open a raw file in the regular Photoshop window? I have no idea how it works under the hood, but it does. It is like manually double-clicking a file with a raw extension and, from the Camera Raw interface, and click on the button 'Open Image'.
You can reproduce it, provided you are on a Mac, by writing an AppleScript similar to the below:
tell application "Adobe Photoshop CC 2019"
open file "correctpath/file.CR2"
activate
end tell
It will not open in Camera Raw. It will open in the normal Photoshop interface and when you click to close, you are asked to save it (as psd or jpg or whatever).
The reason why I want the file to open in Camera Raw is that the normal Photoshop interface cannot handle more than maybe 10 files without eventually crashing on my machine, that is good, but not a turbo. If I want to inspect a series of images to choose and edit or use them, the quickest way to do that is to open it in Camera Raw. It is meant to handle batches of files, if only because you are able to do the same edits on more than one pic without exhausting your computer. I hardly ever 'jpg' my captures because experience has taught me that I usually have to make adjustments specific to a customer who needs an image.
The double-click on a file with a raw extension still works, by the way, so it is not as if Camera Raw no longer works.
I hope this makes sense....
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