spaceytracey Loc: East Glacier Park, MT

I recently uploaded & installed Adobe Camera RAW on my desktop but I cannot find it anywhere on my computer! Any suggestions as to where it may have gone? I have PSE 11 & thought it would be in the filters section. NIC Collection installed there w/o problems.

The Capt.

Not to sure I use PS but I don't think it should be installed to the desktop but into PSE. I also think the correct term would be downloaded.

The Capt.

Also, I think that it comes with ACR. By double clicking on a raw image it should open in camera raw.
Have I been duped?

lamiaceae Loc: San Luis Obispo County, CA

ACR as a stand alone? News to me. It is an integrated part of Ps and Lr. PSE11 is old and not for creating 16 or 32 bit files. It can open 16-bit. Not sure how an 8-bit ACR could work with a 14-bit camera. Perhaps someone else on the UHH knows more about PSE. I have PSE11 on my wife's PC but we rarely use it. I have Ps CS6 on my PC and even that is of 2012 vintage. I have the last version of ACR that can work with CS6 and Windows 10 installed and it works perfectly.

Oh, one suggestion. In your computers OS see what program is associated with opening JPGs, TIFFs, and the Raw files from your camera. Set to PSE11 and then try clicking on a JPG or Raw file and see if ACR opens. Or try some similar settings.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

Each unique version of PhotoShopElements (PSE) has a maximum limit for ACR compatibility.

Ideally, while the software is being supported by Adobe, you periodically get updates from Adobe, some that will / should include ACR updates for various camera models and RAW files released during the product's support life-time. This table gives the maximum for each product:

https://helpx.adobe.com/camera-raw/kb/camera-raw-compatible-applications.html

As you'll see, PSE-11 started at v7.1 and finished at ACR v7.4. There's no way to 'force' anything newer into the PSE-11 software. Nor will ACR show up as an external filter from PSE-11.

If you want to work with 'new' RAW files with the ancient PSE-11, see if you can instead download Adobe's DNG converter and convert the RAW input into the DNG output. There's a drop-down in the DNG Converter software that pick a target ACR version. For the best of luck, try setting that DNG compatibility to something in the ACR v7.1 area. See the Preferences drop-down inside the DNG converter.

bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

"Perhaps someone else on the UHH knows more about PSE"

Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements do RAW a little differently than the other Adobe products. Premiere Elements can use JPEGs and RAWs to make slideshows.

Both PSE and PrE have a one year product life cycle. They are shipped with the built in ability to process RAWs from current and past cameras at the time of shipping. During their life cycle year, they will get one or two updates that will add capability for additional cameras that come out. Neither PSE or PrE use the same Adobe Camera RAW that the Creative Cloud subscription programs use.

In short, PSE 11 will process RAWs from any cameras from its time or before. In order to process RAWs from any camera produced in the last (about) 10 years purchase of a new version is needed.

There is a "work around". For those customers that don't want to feed Adobe with money, Adobe provided the "DNG Converter". It converts RAW files from any camera to the public domain RAW "DNG" format without any quality loss. The new DNG copies will open in older versions of Adobe software. The DNG converter is a 100% free gift from Adobe and is kept on the same release schedule as other Adobe products that process RAW files.

spaceytracey Loc: East Glacier Park, MT

Thanks for the grammar instructions!

spaceytracey Loc: East Glacier Park, MT

I'm not a computer wiz or any sort of wiz so I'm just shooting in the dark here. Your last paragraph sounds helpful. I'll give that a try. Thanks.

spaceytracey Loc: East Glacier Park, MT

My Sony camera comes w/a RAW processing program, which I like & use for all RAW images. A colleague suggested I try ACR. That's my only reason to upload/download it. Think I'll stick to Sony's Image Data Converter.

mwsilvers Loc: Central New Jersey

ACR is Adobes raw processing module and is only useable with Photoshop. It does not work as a stand-alone program. Photoshop Elements (PSE) comes without own pared down version of ACR and can't take advantage of the full featured version of ACR used by Photoshop. In addition, your current version of PSE is quite old and the integrated version of the already pared down ACR that it came with is not updatable.

spaceytracey Loc: East Glacier Park, MT

Many thanks! That clears it up. Best answer yet!

bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

"grammar instructions." If that was insulting, I apologize.

billnikon Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont

On my computer in the lower left hand corner there is a box with a looking glass on it and it says, "type here to search", type in Adobe Camera RAW and see what happens.

traderjohn Loc: New York City

We live in a world with very fragile people.

gvarner Loc: Central Oregon Coast

Your PSE11 comes with ACR. Simply open a RAW file in PSE's Editor.