Can't open in camera raw in Bridge

When in Bridge, if I try to use File/open in Camera Raw, I get the follwing error message "Bridges' parent application is not active. Bridge requires that a qualifying product has been launched at least once to enable this feature."
It worked before: I disabled CS5 Sevice Manager earlier: would this cause my problem ? I used Adobe's own "fix" with the .dat file...

I reinstated CS5 SM and rebooted. It is running but the error message still comes up. If the file is a .dng and you use "open", it will open the file in PS camera raw but I want to open in Bridge camera raw... Any ideas anyone ? What does it mean about the qualifying product anyway ???

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Why won't files open in Camera Raw from Bridge?

I am trying to open files in Camera raw from Bridge but get the following message.
"Bridge's parent application is not active."
Both Bridge and CS5 are open and I have opened camera raw previously.
Any suggestions.
Cheers

Ah this is just because I haven't fully updated my bridge yet, but the solution still works fine
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:25:37 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Why won't files open in Camera Raw from Bridge?
    Re: Why won't files open in Camera Raw from Bridge?
    created by Noel Carboni in Adobe Camera Raw - View the full discussion
The video shows replacing a current DLL file with one from last year - the key issue being that the files found in the Bridge and Photoshop folders are DIFFERENT. Why would this be? I checked a PS CS5.1 installation myself and the files are already the same. Is there an illegitimate copy of Photoshop being used or something, causing these files to differ? -Noel
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Tiff previously edited in ACR will not open in Camera RAW from Bridge

Yes, I have googled this and found instances going back to 2010 with no satisfactory answer. I have Photoshop 5.1 and the latest ACR and Bridge that work with it. 2011 MAC Mini 10.8.2.
I scanned a landscape oriented printed email image at 800 spi as a portrait orientation and saved it as a tiff. I opened this tiff in Preview and decided it needed more than minor tweaks so I opened it in ACR from Bridge, made a few adjustments and saved it. I thought I could see what I was doing better if it was in landscape orientation again so I opened it in Preview and rotated 90 deg CCW, saved it as a tiff. Going to Bridge I found Open in Camera Raw greyed out. I went back to Preview to see if I could get what I needed in its Tools while viewing it in landscape. Adjustments took forever this time, so I gave up and took a look at the image characteristics. Rotating in Preview had changed the image size to 3.3333...... times larger at 240 ppi still aRGB, still a tiff. This has never happened before, including slow adjustments
I duplicated the rotated file and changed it back to 800 ppi and normal size, went to Bridge, Camera Raw still greyed out. Original unrotated image
that had been edited in ACR and saved will still open in ACR.
All kinds of strange things have happened since updating to 10.8.2, but I don't think this is one of them because of the complaints I have seen that date back to 2010. I did a full maintenance routine, i e cleared RAM, reboot in single user with fsck -fy, repaired permissions, back up with SuperDuper which repairs permissions again. Then I tried Bridge again, original will open, rotated won't.
Anyone know the answe?

The answer is that making edits in ACR and saving it creates layers in the tiff and Bridge will then not open it again in ACR unless you flatten it. I still don't know why Preview increased the image size by 3.333.....x or why ACR increased the tiff file size by 2.6x and why the flattened tiff is 2x the file size of the original scan but the image dimensions are the same. This stuff apparently is above the pay grade of anyone in google, too.

Dng. files from LR to PS CC ok Can't open in Camera Raw?

I have LR 5.7 and can edit my dng. files in PS CC but I can only get Camera Filter not full camera raw w/ all the tools. I am a PC user, BTW.
How do I open full Camera raw for a dng. file?
Thanks, very frustrated.
Chris

Because it was edited in lightroom first, photoshop knows enough to bypass camera raw since the controls are identical. If you open the dng file using the normal way like any other format, then it would open in camera raw first.
Keep in mind if you already did any editing in lightroom, those edits needs to be saved to that dng file before you can do the above otherwise camera raw and photoshop will not see the edits you did.
To save a file in lightroom select the file in the library and use ctrl-s to save.
If you do the above, lightroom will not automatically see the changes done in camera raw or photoshop. In library view there will be an icon in the thumbnails corner. This appears when changes to the metadata do not match that of lightroom's database. Clicking the icon should provide a dialog box asking if you want to update lightroom or leave it unchanged.
If you do a folder full, you can sync that folder to update all of them. Keep in mind syncing overwrites your changes in lightroom so make sure that is what you want to do.
I personally try to make it a habit to save all the images from lightroom, just so I don't get any surprises when syncing. There is an icon in the corner of those that need saving.

Can't open my camera raw files in CS6 - using Nikon D7100

I checked for an update as the program suggested and am running Camera Raw 8.4 - also checked and the D7100 is supposed to be compatible with that!
HELP!!

Is 8.4 definitely installed OK? (Help > About plug-in > Camera RAW)
Actually, the D7100 only needs ACR 7.4
Camera Raw plug-in | Supported cameras
Have you tried different NEF files? Have these NEF files been processed in the app supplied with the camera by Nikon? Can you test ACR by taking a RAW shot and opening it in ACR?
I ask because we have seen quite a few instances of corrupt NEF files on this forum.

Opening in Camera Raw from Bridge

Bridge will not longer allow me to open photo files directly into Camera Raw, saying a "qualifying" program must be open; I have Bridge and Photoshop CS 6.5 Extended open. What else is needed????

Not sure what CS6.5 Extended is. There is CS6 and CS5.
If you try to launch Bridge from the parent program, and still get message, it is highly likely you have an expired Adobe trial on you computer. Find and destroy and Bridge will work. Bridge is looking for permission from the trial.

Can I open Adobe Camera Raw from LR?

I use LR 3.4.1 as my image browser but occasionaly would like to edit images using ACR as well as Photoshop. At the moment I have to go to "Edit in Photoshop ..." then switch to ACR via Bridge but would like to go straight to ACR without opening PS or bridge first. Is this possible? I know if open an image from finder it will automatically open in ACR first then PS, then have to import to LR but wondered if there was a shortcut from Lightroom.

I have been evaluating LR as an adjunct to Photoshop (or maybe the other way around!) and was amazed to see that an .nef opened in LR, developed and saved with, I assume, a sidecar, nevertheless does not allow that same file opened in ACR, to access that xml file as at least a choice. I was going to ask why, or how to do it, when I discovered this thread.
The path to doing so is convoluted but doable. Once you open in ACR from the Smart Object file, one needs to copy the settings save them and then when opening another nef in ACR without going to LR, one then loads those settings.
Makes for a big file of short time sidecars, unfortunately.
I assume the reverse is also true: Opening an nef in LR that has an ACR side car, that sidecar is ignored. Hafta try.
Why do I do this, you ask? The UI is far better in ACR than in LR. That bittsy side panel of tweaks is fussy and is similar to DXO in layout. I don't like theirs either. But lightroom does have it's stregths, and that is the data base.
Ok, I opened an nef already possessing a sidecar from ACR and LR did use it. So why not the other way around, or am I missing something?
Lawrence

No options in Bridge or Photoshop to open with camera raw

Photoshop CC 14 installed. I do not get an option to open in camera raw from bridge or from file/open in photoshop. I am trying to batch work on PSD documents from camera raw but cannot open them in camera raw.

That would be right. You can't open PSD files in ACR. How would ACR deal with layers, along with all the other features embedded in a PSD file?

Cannot open in camera raw

I have 4 psd files I just made.
In bridge, right click has no open in camera raw option. Also no open in camera raw from menu.
Last resort: from photoshop open, change dropdown to camera raw -- but then error message comes up:
"Could not complete your request because the file-format module cannot parse the file"
thanks!

I have Photoshop set up to Always Maximize Compatibility, myself.
This enables the use of some 3rd party viewers (e.g., IrfanView), and helps better ensure any PSD will be editable by more different software/versions. That said, most "Never" mode saves can actually be opened by an older version of Photoshop, as long as features not available in the older version have not been used.
I think the data compression may be better when set to Never, because even a flat Background-only file will make a smaller PSD file when set to Never. Some say it's faster, too.
However big disks are cheap, computers are faster than ever, and I hate closing off options that might mean I "can't get there from here" some day in a situation I just haven't anticipated.
But that's just my preference.
A single layer Background-only file can be opened with Camera Raw even if saved with "Never Maximize Compatibility". A multi-layer file cannot. So yes, if you flatten the file you can keep the "Never" setting.
-Noel
P.S., the "flattened composite" created by saving a compatible PSD is not really a preview - I used the wrong word before. It's what you'd get with Layer - Flatten, and has all the quality thereof.

Open in Camera Raw, from shell

Does anyone know what the command line for PS CS3 is so I can add an Open in Camera Raw option to JPEGs and TIFs in the windows shell?
ie. "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS3\Photoshop.exe" -1%
or whatever the standard open line is

Ah this is just because I haven't fully updated my bridge yet, but the solution still works fine
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:25:37 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Why won't files open in Camera Raw from Bridge?
    Re: Why won't files open in Camera Raw from Bridge?
    created by Noel Carboni in Adobe Camera Raw - View the full discussion
The video shows replacing a current DLL file with one from last year - the key issue being that the files found in the Bridge and Photoshop folders are DIFFERENT. Why would this be? I checked a PS CS5.1 installation myself and the files are already the same. Is there an illegitimate copy of Photoshop being used or something, causing these files to differ? -Noel
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Hello my name is jose quant, and let me know how I can use CAMERA RAW adobe bridge because the bridge use and want to open a camera raw image, I get a message that says: MAIN BRIDGE aplicaion NOT ACTIVATED. BRIDGE REQUIRES A PARTICULAR PRODUCT HAS BEGUN A

Hello my name is jose quant, and let me know how I can use CAMERA RAW adobe bridge because the bridge use and want to open a camera raw image, I get a message that says: MAIN BRIDGE aplicaion NOT ACTIVATED. BRIDGE REQUIRES A PARTICULAR PRODUCT HAS BEGUN AT LEAST ONCE TO ACTIVATE THIS FEATURE. I wonder what that means?
I use a lapto (windows 7) 64-Bit operating system.
Thank you,
my email is: [email protected], if you send me the answer to my query

You need to activate Photoshop.
Mylenium

Can only open some JPEG files in Camera Raw through Bridge CS3

I'm running Bridge CS3 version 2.0.0.975. I always edit my JPEG files through Camera Raw in Bridge CS3. I only have to Right-Click on the file and select "Open in Camera Raw...". However, I've come into a situation where some jpg files will not open this way; the option is not even there.
I have made sure to tick the box in preferences under Behavior "Double-Click Edits Camera Raw Settings in Bridge", and also tick the box under Thumbnails -> Performance and File Handling "Prefer Adobe Camera Raw for JPEG and TIFF Files.
These files were originally 16bit Grayscale TIFF files, but I changed them to RGB 8bit JPEG files.
Also, I know the program works because I navigate to an older photo I worked which is a JPEG and the "Open in Camera Raw..." option is there when I Right-Click, but then I navigate back to the image I want to edit, and the option is not there.
Here are links to my screenshots of what I'm talking about. Both images in the last two screenshots are JPEG:
General Prefs - http://img535.imageshack.us/i/prefgeneral.png/
Thumbnail Prefs - http://img716.imageshack.us/i/prefthumbnails.png/
Camera Raw Option - http://img847.imageshack.us/i/option.png/
Camera Raw No Option - http://img852.imageshack.us/i/nooption.png/

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MapsCollector wrote:
When I open Photoshop CS3, then go File -> Open As and change the Format Type to "Camera Raw", the JPEG files vanish and I can only see the TIF files. When I open them, it doesn't open in Camera Raw, but rather opens like a normal file would.
That's a fundamental problem right there, and a clue in all this. You should be able to see JPEGs in the Open As Camera Raw dialog.
What happens if you type in the name?
I'm almost convinced you have a file named .jpg but with a different image format inside. Can you put one of these files online for others to try to open?
-Noel

Can't select 'open in camera raw...' in Bridge

I have CS3 and I just recently updated my camera raw plug-in to 4.2. Updates have allowed me to see my CR2 files (instead of an icon) ; which was a problem before. But now I can't select the 'open in camera raw...' function in Bridge. The function is still listed in my 'file' menu, however it's grayed out and cannot be selected. I'm hoping this has something to do with a setting, or at least an easy fix. Any help or guidance on this would be extremely helpful! Thanks!

erin.h wrote:
I have CS3 and I just recently updated my camera raw plug-in to 4.2.
Camera Raw 4.2? The current version is 4.6.
If you can't access the Camera Raw command from Bridge with raw files, the odds are you didn't install it correctly...since you don't bother to state your OS, we can't really help you with WHERE to place Camera Raw (and only ONE version of Camera Raw) but you should go back and double check it's in the correct place for your OS.

I can't open Camera Raw from Bridge

Why is it that I can not open CR from Bridge. I can see it in Plug ins. I don't see any reference to CR in Preferences. Why is that?

What version of photoshop and operating system are you using?
What kind of file do you want to open in camera raw?
If you right click on a camera raw file thumbnail in Bridge, do you see Open in Camera Raw?

Can't open Camera Raw from Bridge CS3

Need Help with the following issue. Until recently I was able to open & edit camera raw files in Bridge CS3. Tried to update Bridge from Adobe website and all of a sudden the "open in camera raw" option under File is greyed out. Also right-clicking the raw (CR2) file does not allow me to open the file in camera raw and I can't view the files as thumbnails any longer. When I double click the file Photoshop opens and subsequently camera raw. I have really lost the convenience of opening the file in Bridge and I'm afraid my workflow will suffer. Any help would be appreciated. I am running Windows 7. Thanks.

I am having this exact same problem and just upgraded to Windows 7...many people are saying to update the Plug In for Camera Raw to 4.6, but that is not working for me to see it in Bridge or Camera Raw.

Can't open in camera raw in Bridge

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