ACR 6.x with Photoshop Macintosh vs. Photoshop Windows ?

Any thoughts or preferences on using ACR 6.x with Photoshop Macintosh or Photoshop Windows?
I need to buy an update from CS4 for either Macintosh or Windows version of the application.
Unfortunately, either one will be used on a laptop, just for ACR. My main desktop machines are legacy Power Mac G5 Quads, and I have legitimate Photoshop licenses for both Mac and Windows and own a MacBook and a Windows Vista laptop.
Thanks in advance for any and all comments.

My personal 2 cents worth:
Some years ago I bought a Dell laptop for my son. It was a top of the line $3K+ model, and from being DOA right out of the box when it arrived it never gave us anything but trouble. Virtually every part in the thing except the case was replaced at least once by Dell under their extended warranty (glad I bought that!). Hard drive failure after hard drive failure, motherboard failures, bad connectors, bad display... The list goes on and on. He never abused the thing - it just sat on his desk.
Then we bought him a Macbook. Not a pro model, nothing special, just a $1200 model, because he liked it. That was 4 years ago. He's still using it in college.
That Macbook has now gone 4 years with exactly ONE fault: The power supply cord frayed at the connector, and the power supply had to be replaced, which the Apple Store did immediately under AppleCare, no questions asked.
If I ever buy another laptop it will be an Apple, even if I plan to run Windows on it.
-Noel

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See this link for full details on camera support in Camera Raw versions:
http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/2012/03/raw-support-in-lightroom-and-camera-raw.ht ml
Snip taken from link above:
You’ll also note that ACR7, available with Photoshop CS6 beta, is lagging the most in updated camera support. This is based on when we lock down or “bake” the code for each release. Even though ACR7 was only released last week it was “baked” before Lightroom 4.0 and Camera Raw 6.7. Similarly, Lightroom 4.0 was finalized before Camera Raw 6.7. We’ll get Lightroom and Camera Raw in sync soon but in the interim, here’s the latest incremental support list for each product, relative to Camera Raw 6.6 and Lightroom 3.6:
Photoshop CS6 beta with ACR7
Canon PowerShot S100V
Fuji FinePix X-S1
NOTE:
ACR7.1 will have the superset of all currently supported cameras in ACR6.7 and LR4.1 plus a few extras.

I was just curious and hunting around ACR 7.1 and Photoshop trying our the features. Also I have found that LR4 RC2 has follows ACR 7.1 as far as lens profiles go working with RAW images, so there is some consistency.
Wonder what the difference is between a RAW rendered image in ACR versus a Photoshop rendered image. Given, I could be wrong here, that Lens Correction is based on the optics of the lens, focal length, and the characteristics of the sensor, so would they not be the same in ACR and Photoshop?
I think I need to go check out a lens profiler
Cheers
Mike
There is one reason that I may go back into the Lens Correction Filter and that might be to fine tune some of the persective tools. With a large panorama much easier to see what needs to be done rather than view seperate images, and i have done that in the past. did not come to me until after I had hit the Send Button

What is the most advanced version of ACR that can be used with Photoshop CS5?

What is the most advanced version of ACR that can be used with Photoshop CS5?
Will it open RAW files from a Canon 5D Mark III ?

CS5 can use up to ACR 6.7.1. CS6 started with ACR 7.0.
The 5D Mark III was first supported with ACR 6.7.
ACR 6.7.1 can be downloaded from the Camera Raw Mac and Win links on the Adobe Download page:
http://www.adobe.com/downloads/updates.html
References:
http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/camera-raw-compatible-applications.html
http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/camera-raw-plug-supported-cameras.html

I cant open my .CR2 files with photoshop verion CS5.1

Hi i recently photographed an event and I used the Canon Rebel T3i. I also stored all the Images with using RAW format. When I went to edit my photos i could not open them with Photoshop.
I could open the JIP files but not the RAW camera files that were .CR2 files
Photoshop just displace a message saying
could not complete your request because
the file appears to be from a camera
model which is not supported by the
installed version of Camera Raw.
please visit the Camera Raw help
documentation for additional information.
The version of Photoshop that I'm using is CS5.1
I also updated the Camera RAW Plugin to version 6.3.0.79
I also went to the help tab in Photoshop and clicked on update and updated but I still had the same problem.
I thought that was going to get me edit my .CR2 files but it just displace the same error message.
pleas help.

The T3i was first supported by Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) 6.4
http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/camera-raw-plug-supported-cameras.html
CS5 is compatible with Camera Raw up to version 6.7.
http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/camera-raw-compatible-applications.html
Try manually installing ACR 6.7
Win: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=5371
Mac: Adobe - Photoshop : For Macintosh : Camera Raw 6.7 Update

Problem with Photoshop CS6. If I open a file using Camera RAW

I have a new problem with Photoshop CS6. If I open a file using Camera RAW, and process it as usual, CS6 doesn't want to save it the way it used to. I don't know if I changed something by accident or not.
Here's what happens now: After opening from ACR to CS6 and completinhg all of my work, I choose "Save as..." The save as window opens showing the file name and format. The default format seems to be .PSD. I use the drop down to select .jpg. The file saves normally as a .jpg. When I go to close the image from, I get a new prompt asking, "Save changes to Adobe Photoshop document DSC_xxxx.NEF before closing?
I looked up at the file name in the bar above the work space and noticed that it does NOT change from "DSC_xxxx.NEF" to "DSC_xxxx.jpg" after I have saved the file as a .jpg,in my webesite but it always used to do that. This adds a few extra steps when closing a document and it really slows me down.
In fact, I wouldn't swear to this, but I think it used to save to .jpg by default, without me specifying this.
I don't see a setting in the preferences for what to use as the default file format for saving, so I don't know where to change it back.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance

You are in the wrong forum; You actually need Photoshop forum at this link:
<http://forums.adobe.com/community/photoshop?view=discussions>
Hope you can repost your question at the correct link.

Saving a Photoshop CC project from a Mac (in .PSD format) to a thumb drive and trying to transfer it to a Dell laptop with Photoshop CS6. Will not open...Error message: could not complete your request because it is not a valid photoshop document.

Saving a Photoshop CC project from a Mac (in .PSD format) to a thumb drive and trying to transfer it to a Dell laptop with Photoshop CS6. Will not open...Error message: could not complete your request because it is not a valid photoshop document.

The file was corrupted somewhere along the way (assuming it was still readable on the Macintosh).
The platforms don't matter, but you still need file transfer that doesn't corrupt files...

RAW (NEF) photos from my new Nikon D750 will not open with Photoshop Elements11 Camera RAW.

RAW (NEF) photos from my new Nikon D750 will not open in Camera RAS with Photoshop Elements 11. This has not been a problem with previous Nikon cameras. I'm using a MacBook Pro with OS X 10.9.5. How can I solve this problem? Thanks.

Aside from upgrading to pse 13, you can use the 8.7.1 adobe dng converter to convert the files to dng copies, which pse 11 should then open.
Adobe - Adobe Camera Raw and DNG Converter : For Macintosh : Adobe DNG Converter 8.7.1
how to use
Camera Raw: How to use Adobe DNG Converter - YouTube

ACR 7.1 Beta & Photoshop CS6 Lens Profiles

If I open a Nikon RAW (NEF) file in ACR 7.1 Beta it correctly finds my Camera and Lens Combination Nikon D3 with the Nikon 24-70m f2,8 with the Adobe Lens Profile. However, when I leave ACR and the image is open in Photoshop, go to Filter, Lens Correction it does not automatically detect the correct camera and lens combination.
It shows the Camera Make as NIKON CORPORATION, but the Camera Model and Lens Model are not detected and I am asked to choose. In the Lens Profiles I see two choices, one for a Nikon D3x with the correct lens, the other for a generic Nikon Camera with a Sigma 24-70 F2.8.
I would have thought the detection process would have been the same?
MK

I was just curious and hunting around ACR 7.1 and Photoshop trying our the features. Also I have found that LR4 RC2 has follows ACR 7.1 as far as lens profiles go working with RAW images, so there is some consistency.
Wonder what the difference is between a RAW rendered image in ACR versus a Photoshop rendered image. Given, I could be wrong here, that Lens Correction is based on the optics of the lens, focal length, and the characteristics of the sensor, so would they not be the same in ACR and Photoshop?
I think I need to go check out a lens profiler
Cheers
Mike
There is one reason that I may go back into the Lens Correction Filter and that might be to fine tune some of the persective tools. With a large panorama much easier to see what needs to be done rather than view seperate images, and i have done that in the past. did not come to me until after I had hit the Send Button

ACR 8.1 in Photoshop CS6 is terribly slow

I just installed ACR 8.1 into Photoshop CS6 and it is terribly slow. I’m working on an 8-core Mac Pro with 10GB of RAM, but even if I have one single file open (Nikon D800 NEF), simple actions like zoom in or out or show/hide masks only occur after a two seconds (or more) lag. Scrolling through the image isn't smooth, it jumps up and down like crazy and spinning beachballs appear.
I tried to reinstall 7.4 but the installer gives an error message: U44M2P7 (even after removing ACR 8.1 from the Plug-ins/File format folder in the Library).
It is really impossible to work this way (I'm a professional photographer), so does anybody know a way to fix 8.1 or to reinstall 7.4?

Thanks Noel; I used Time Machine to set the various Adobe folders back to their state before the update, and 7.4 is up and running again.
But when I started working on the same file again, it was as slow as it was when I ran 8.1. I had created a fair amount of local adjustments, using both the brush and the graduated filter. With the brush I had selected a rather complex shape.
I discovered that when I removed these local adjustments one by one, ACR became snappier every time. So it seemed that the problem was not related to 8.1, but to both 7.4 and 8.1 becoming sluggish when a fair amount of local adjustments was applied.
I checked the XMP file of this photo and it had grown to 1.7 MB. I then opened another file whose XMP was 1.1 MB and in this case ACR behaved accordingly: sluggish, but less than with the previous photo.
I also tested ACR on my laptop, where I had not upgraded to 8.1, and there ACR behaved identically as on my desktop computer.
So apparently there is a soft, but severe limit to the number and complexity of the local adjustments you can make in ACR. I had made complex adjustments before; and I can't remember to have encountered such behaviour before.
But from version 7 on you could use a lot more sliders than ever before to define your local adjustments, and I'm now working with huge D800 files. Apparently the first time I really went too far and pushed ACR over it's limits, coincided with the upgrade to ACR 8.1.
Anyway, problem solved. I hope future versions will be a little more robust (I'm saving for a 60 MP Hasselblad:-)

Do other software applications interfere with Photoshop?

Does putting digital audio workstation (DAW) [i.e. cubase] software with Photoshop (and other Adobe products) on the same machine interfere with each other?
Is this is a good idea, a bad idea, or a non-issue?
Machine has 8GB of ram and 750GB hard disk and I don't want to use a separate machine for recording and editing music but if I have to I have to.
I also have an external hard drive.
Thank you.

I've seen issues as described by others here, notably between DxO and Bridge. Up till vers 7 of DxO, if I had Bridge open as well as DxO, and, in fact, if DxO, Bridge, Photoshop and Firefox were all open, I could expect a freeze in Photoshop and/or Bridge having to close down. It was especially difficult when trying to drag an image from Bridge to the DxO icon in the tray. Guaranteed to crash Bridge.
Version 7 of DxO seems to have corrected this condition but I have experienced, but only once, Bridge crashing from a drag and drop. I believe that one was operator error.
Now if only the other problem between DxO and Bridge/ACR also would go away! A color shift in the orange range from the .dng,. A big one at that. It's evident on my D 80 images, but not D90. It's also evident on two Canons I checked; a 20D and the 7D. I see it on a Mac and PC. DxO says it ain't them, and offers proof through the jpeg and tiff outputs. They remain neutral. It's weird. Only colors like dry grass, or a stained reddish-orange cedar fence shows it, and only from the dng.
Oh, and DxO support said they could not explain why I wasn't seeing it on the D90!
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"Edit with Photoshop" problem...

I can no longer effect the "Edit with Photshop CC (2014) command on my laptop. When I click to Edit with PS, it does launch PS but nothing happens. I does NOT launch the dialog box that gives you the choice to edit a copy with LR corrections etc. All other plugins work fine (NIK, OnOne etc).
The operation works fine on my desktop and I can't find any setting that is different on one from the other.
Running Mavericks on MBP retina and iMac with all updates. Running Photographer subscription on both machines. My Catalog is in dropbox but I have all the image files on an external drive that I have each hooked up to. It is not a sync problem - there are no conflicting catalogs etc from the dropbox arrangement.
If I had to guess, I have some sort of feeling that this is an ACR issue...in fact, it must be. as I wrote that, I decided to try editing a jpg file in PS and that worked fine.
But I do have the problem with both .RAF and .NEF files...
I guess I could try a manual install of the latest version of ACR but would like to know if that can be done manually with the new Adobe subscription system?
any tips welcome.
thanks,
tom

I'm not sure what is happening then because the dialog would only come up in Lightroom if there was a Camera RAW mismatch.
Another thing you can try is delete the "Lightroom 5 Preferences.agprefs" file and restart Lightroom. The file location is Preference and other file locations in Lightroom 5 .
You also may try adding PS again as another external editor which means the dialog should appear for ALL images, I wonder if it is something to do with Photoshop CC and CC (2014) being installed?

How can i use Nikon D 7100 and Panasonic Lumix DMC-LF1 with Photoshop CS 5 Camera Raw?

How can i use Nikon D 7100 and Panasonic Lumix DMC-LF1 with Photoshop CS 5 Camera Raw?

The one needs 7.4 (or better), the other 8.1, so Photoshop CS5 with ACR6 is not up to the task.
The free DNG Converter could be used to convert the RAW images to DNG which your version of ACR should be able to process.

Compatibility of Camera Raw with Photoshop CS5

Just bought a new camera (Canon T3i). Took a scandisk full of pics in "Camera Raw". Tried to open in Photoshop and got messsage that "Camera Raw" from my camera is not compatible with Photoshop CS5. What can I do??

Download the most recent version of ACR which for CS5 is ACR 6.7. (which if you had mentioned your system I could have pointed you to the download). You'll just have to find it yourself in the Adobe Updates.

Lightroom with Photoshop CS

Will Lightroom work with Photoshop CS or is it CS2/3 only?
ACR 3.1 won't work with CS so does that mean Lightroom and CS are incompatible?
Thanks,
Julian

If you can specify what you mean by 'work with' a bit more, there'll be some no's and some yesses.
Fullest compatiblity happens with LR and CS3 final release.

What laptops are compatibile with Photoshop?..that have 16GB ram...

I recently purchased the Dell XPS 15 as it is configured with the massive power needed to use photoshop and Lightroom. However, it seems that the screen is not compatible and it is unresolvable. I am SOOOOOO disappointed, and now it is Dell's problem as I am sending it back. Apparently this is a known issue that Adobe is aware of but does not care to address. If you use Photoshop with this system, you must view the toolbar with a magnifying glass. So finally to my question, other than the Mac, what laptops have the 16 GB ram, etc. are available to run Photoshop quickly and smoothly?
The main reason that I do not want to go to Mac is that the Mac Book pro is $1000 more expensive. In addition, I still use PS5 and have no need to upgrade. If I get the Mac, not only will I have to pay $1000 more for the computer, I will have to upgrade and go to the PS CC and pay ...forever...for software that I already own to get a Mac version.
Help!

AhrPhotography,
One very important point for a professional photographer, though not related to your questions:
If you use Adobe Camera Raw—and I would assume you do—you are leaving a lot of image quality on the table if you stick with Photoshop CS5. The conversion and rendering in Adobe Camera Raw improved very substantially in ACR 7.4 (and higher) and that requires at least CS6 to run.
You can upgrade to a perpetual-license of Photoshop CS6 for $200 at the Adobe store, or you can sign up for the Photography plan for $10 a month and that includes both Photoshop and Lightroom. The downside, of course is that you never get to own the software. You pay the monthly tribute to Adobe in perpetuity; when you cease the monthly payment your software ceases to work.

ACR 6.x with Photoshop Macintosh vs. Photoshop Windows ?

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