Adobe bridge cs4 camera raw editing is not enabled

As i said in my posts, i don't think it's old enough to be discarded. I understand the DNG solution is the easiest for you, but as a user, it's not a comfortable one. Copying my photos and opening them straight in camera raw is quick and easy, and i wouldn't want to add another step in between. Obviously, this is what i will do, because i'm left no other choice, until i upgrade my CS. For my personal home use i don't feel i need to upgrade every year. Dear Jeffrey, I am working as an artist using the CS4 creative suite.

As well as the edit- and animationsoftware, a suitable computer and video and photo-equipment and so on and so forth. When I can afford it I invest in updates or equipment. And o, silly me, I recently exchanged my Nikon D50 for a D So after some hours I ended up in this thread.

It is very frustrating indeed. I do understand I have to invest every 3 to 5 years in one end of the workflow I built in order to keep up with technical developments, but I do not understand at all why I would HAVE to invest so much money on a yearly basis, just to be able to continue doing what was already doing.

And with which I am perfectly happy the way it is working. A plugin update is in no balance with an CS4 suite update. It is not a stupid question to ask to make a raw-plugin compatible with one previous version of your software. Adobe's limited sources are understandable, but are you saying that your customers earnings are limitless?? You are totally mistaken! Hear, hear, Conny. I'm glad i'm not the only one with this story here who thinks this is inappropriate. Use Lightroom.

Updates are every 1. Use it for all your raw processing. There's just no need to have Camera Raw at all if you are using Lightroom. If you can afford a D, you can afford 50 to 67 dollars a year for Lightroom updates. If you really need to do pixel edits, render your images in Lightroom and go to PS for the edits.

That will work with any version of PS. Heck, I was using Lightroom 3. Now I have Elements 9 for pixel editing - plenty of power there - but if you really need CS, then keep your old version and just use the latest version of Lightroom for raw processing.

Hello Conny, These updates are not just about adding new cameras; new features and bug fixes are added as well, which are not always going to be compatible with the previous versions. Keep in mind the frustration here should not be directed at Adobe but at the manufacture of your camera forces, demands a proprietary raw format that Adobe has to hack to support.

They make you wait for Adobe to get their hands on the camera system which they have to pay for and figure out how to convert that data in their converter. This is true for ALL other 3rd party converters too, not just Adobe. The bad guys here are the manufacturers! If more end users directed their frustration at the manufacturers instead of Adobe, maybe, maybe they would do this. That's not the only reason, but it is one of them.

This may be true. I agree the manufacturers are to blame for making it harder on users and on Adobe. It's all part of the scheme of preventing users from switching from one camera make to another. They made a decision to go along with these proprietary formats, and i don't think they can just quit supporting them whenever they want and absolve themselves by sending users to the DNG converter. Anyway, i think i've made my point on the matter clear in this thread, whether people agree with me or not.

You don't make your point at all. Although they're both disc but they're different, the same thing is true with D70 and D Technology moves on. You obviously didn't read the rest of my comments on this thread. Technology moves on, but CS4 is not old enough as not to support this new technology, it's as simple as that. A firmware update wouldn't make a dvd player read bluray discs, because it requires a different bit of hardware.

But in Photoshop a firmware update CAN in fact help read "newer technology" files. Adobe simply decided that this "newer technology" will only be read by CS5 and not CS4. This means Adobe think CS4 is obsolete, and can be discarded, and that CS4 users can be sent out to use converters and waste their time on conversions, instead of giving them the same software update CS5 users are getting. Now it is in CR 6. Regards Chris This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled Outdated and less that a year old.

Same article applied to Photoshop Elements. I think Chris' point is one of my big beefs: Why I am forced to upgrade the base app simply because a plugin isn't updated for older releases? Bought a D - oops! Then we bought a Canon G Guess what? CS Color Settings, Camera Raw preferences and various functions like applying a sepia filter to a bunch of photos at once stopped working once I applied the latest patches. Patching the program could cause inconsistency between the atmlib files.

Pasting your amtlib. It may not be as hard as this. When the above fix didn't work for me after an uninstall of an older version of photoshop following the upgrade , I soved it as follows: Try reassociating the raw filetypes in Adobe Bridge using "edit-preferences" shortcut ctrl-k in windows and setting them to open in your version of CS. Windows only fix, I don't know what the equivalent is in mac. Hope this helps. Mine had disassociated both the canon raw cr2 files and jpegs from opening in Photoshop when clicking on them in bridge and this solved it.

Hi Andy I did as per your solution, still fails. Thanks, Ambuj. Try this: Close bridge. Open Photoshop. Now open a raw file in Photoshop make sure the bridge and psd are the same CS. Photoshop should automatically open that raw file in Camera Raw. Now your Camera Raw should be initiated and you may open through bridge using a right click and open in camera raw. I too tried Andy's fix, but nothing changed until I went into the Task Manager and ended the processes of Adobe that were still running.

Then it worked fine. Thank you Andy, this problem has been a burden on my workflow. Try double clicking the JPG from within Bridge. I have the exact same proble, and after trying all the various 'solutions', nothing worked. It opens right into Camera Raw. Thanks for Andy's contribute, Yes it does the best way if you are running a cracked version I think.

You must log in or sign up to reply here. Show Ignored Content. Share This Page Tweet. It must be some specific setting somewhere preventing me from opening jpg, tiff, or others in camera raw. Please help! Gear List. Change the options for handling jpegs and tiffs. Dennis Canon 5D 20D I have not yet begun to procrastinate! Tried all 3 option, but I don't see any change on the gray-out situation.

Googled the solution, found the following, but it didn't work for me. If that works, try a tif. Were the tiff files saved with compression? Do you happen to own LR? Color Problems? Click here. Approve the Cookies This website uses cookies to improve your user experience. By using this site, you agree to our use of cookies and our Privacy Policy. Register to forums Log in.

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