Artifacts when developing CR2 files in ACR

When developing CR2 files in ACR (version 8.4), I get almost always terrible artifacts into the picture, particularly in darker shots (night, thunderstorms), which can not be completely removed in Photoshop. These show up mainly in gradients (such as sky after sunset), even if I change only a little of the settings.
With identical shots from NEF files (because sometimes two different cameras are used at the same time) this color breaks in ACR are not given.
Why might that be?

Which Camera Profiles are you using for each camera? Have you tried different ones?

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Open EOS 1ds Mk III CR2 files in ACR 4.6

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Is there a way to default open my CR2 files in the ACR 4.6 dialog when I click the "Photo" menu, then "Edit in PS" in LR?
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Colour problems when opening PEF files in ACR

I have the problem that when I open a (Pentax) raw image in ACR the colours (particularly blue it seems to me) go awry.
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If I convert the image to jpg in Pentax Photo Lab the image is displayed correctly.
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Jim Hess,
That's helpful advice, thank you. Sadly, I've been unable so far to make adjustments in ACR that are anywhere near (IMHO) the images as displayed in Pentax Photo Lab. Even the (truly awful) MS Office picture manager provides more consistent colour.
I'm still convinced that I'm doing something wrong. I know that Elements is much cheaper than full Photshop (something that I simply can't afford to buy) but to be so wildly out is unbelieveable.
For example, I took a photo of a jet passing overhead, with (out of focus) leaves on a tree, then went in and loaded this onto my computer. IMHO the Pentax Photo Browser showed the scene pretty much as was. After converting to jpg in Photo Lab, I loaded into PSE 8 and Office picture manager - both display consistently with the raw image displayed in Photo Browser.
However, when I loaded the same raw file into ACR the blue sky has a greenish tinge that I can nearly adjust out, but either way, the green leaves look muddy and the colour is weak. If I get the leaves good, then the blue is very over saturated. When I compromise both the blue and the green, the aluminium fuselage on the jet has a red/purple tinge.
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Dingo.

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>In fact, to arrive at Canon's white balance kelvin reading of 2900, I have to move the ACR slider to read somewhere around 3900-4200 depending. CS2 didn't have this problem when I did similar shoots under the same lighting conditions. Any thoughts?
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I am trying to import CR2 files from my canon 450D. Lightroom 5 won't let me. Help please!!

I am trying to import CR2 files from my canon 450D into Lightroom 5. Lightroom says 'preview unavailable for this file'. I cannot get past this. I have tried importing directly from the camera, and also from an external hard drive that I managed to download the photos onto. I am new to Lightroom so any simple suggestions would be greatly appreciated!! Also I am working on a Mac. Thanks!

I have a 450D and the files open just fine in LR5.
Is this your first attempt at using LR or your first attempt at developing CR2 files?
It sounds like your raw files may be corrupted or there is some permission problem that is preventing LR from reading the files.
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I updated to latest version of Adobe Camera Raw 6.6 but still can't seem to open my CR2 files in Photoshop. Can't open them in Lightroom either, no preview in Bridge or OS.
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Hello Frides
This problem started for me since Sep 2012, on CS5 and CS6
Windows 7 Ultimate
64 GB Ram
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ACR 6.2
Camera Canon 5D M2
The problem is when I preview my archive files it corrupt the as well; I can see the CR2 file using ACDsee Pro 5 but when I convert them to Tiff or JPEG it export the corrupted file.
The scary part is if I'm losing my archive CR2 files,
I can’t open these file in Canon Digital Photo Professional after they damaged with Adobe.
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stil get this random problem.
CHecked the CF card / Card reader / all my cables on both PC's
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PLEASE HELP!!!!! SOS

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What model camera?
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I want to edit my raw images on cs5 photoshop. But when I go to open the .CR2 file it says '' 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

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Photoshop Camera Raw 8.7.1(CS6) There was an error installing this update. Please quit and try again later. Error Code: U44M1I216 ''
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