CS3 - "Open in Camera Raw..." no longer working

The "Open in Camera Raw..." feature for JPG is no longer available in Bridge CS3. It was just working last week but now it does not appear when I right click on an image, it's grayed out in the menu and Command-R is disabled. Anyone know what's up? Doesn't work from Photoshop CS3 either.
Stephen Jensen
F3 Studios
www.f3studios.com

Purge the cache from that folder...if that doesn't work, you may need to reset your Bridge prefs. Since you didn't bother to post your OS (pretty basic info) you'll need to check your OS's process for resetting the Bridge prefs.

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Bridge CS3 - "Open in Camera Raw..." no longer working

The "Open in Camera Raw..." feature for JPG is no longer available in Bridge CS3. It was just working last week but now it does not appear when I right click on an image, it's grayed out in the menu and Command-R is disabled. Anyone know what's up? Doesn't work from Photoshop CS3 either.
Stephen Jensen
F3 Studios
www.f3studios.com

There are 3 places to check this option, 1 in Bridge preferences itself, 1 in the camera raw preferences via Bridge and the last one in the PS preferences from PSCS3 itself.
They all should have a checkmark. But there are some issues with this option. You might also want to refresh the preferences with restarting Bridge an holding down option key and after doing so again check and set the prefs to your wishes.

Bridge CS3 "Open in Camera Raw" unavailable (grayed out)

I am using Bridge CS3 (2.0.0.975; and Photoshop CS3) under Vista Home Premium. I have two accounts on this system (one administrative "root," and my primary limited user account).
My problem: under my primary account (even if I switch it to administrative), unless I open raw files with ACR, I cannot access "Open in Camera Raw..." under the file menu (as it is grayed out and inaccessible while trying to open jpg files, etc.). However, using the administrative account I can access/use the command. I tried uninstalling CS3, switching my primary to administrative and reinstalling using my primary account, but it still appears grayed out and I still cannot open files using the abbrev "Ctrl+R." Note, I can open jpg files in ACR, but this must be the default for all jpg files not ones that I select to open.
Also, under preferences>Labels, I need to uncheck the "Require the Control Key to Apply Labels and Ratings" every time Bridge is restarted as it will not save from startup to startup. Any help is appreciated. --Greg

There are 3 places to check this option, 1 in Bridge preferences itself, 1 in the camera raw preferences via Bridge and the last one in the PS preferences from PSCS3 itself.
They all should have a checkmark. But there are some issues with this option. You might also want to refresh the preferences with restarting Bridge an holding down option key and after doing so again check and set the prefs to your wishes.

"Open in Camera Raw" no longer listed... "Test in Device Central" now shows...

If anyone has a moment and knows what the problem is I would appreciate the help. I have been using Bridge for a while now and I always open my pics in Camera Raw before sending them to CS3. The other day as I went to open in Camera Raw I noticed the option was gone. Not only was it gone, but it was replaced with "Test in Device Central". I have no idea what I've done to cause this. If anyone has had this issue or knows how to troubleshoot it then I would be sincerely grateful. I'm using a Mac OS X 10.4.11. Thank you!
Stephanie

Mona,
Here's the link to Bridge reset help:
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=332992
Added by edit - bum information, for Windows CS4 hold down the control key and then start up Bridge, a dialog box will pop up enabling you to reset the preferences.
Richard Southworth

Camera Raw no longer works

Im trying to figure out why my Camera Raw plugin seems to have stopped working. I am using CS3, with the 4.5 plugin installed in the correct place, and my camera is the digital rebel XSi, which is on the list of supported cameras with the 4.5 plugin. The plugin was working for me fine for a while, and then when i tried to use it today it said that it was an unsupported file format when I opened it in Photoshop, and none of the camera raw preferences are showing up in bridge. I just recently installed Lightroom 2, would that have affected it in any way? Any help on this matter would be appreciated. I am on a MacBook Pro, running 10.5.4. Thank you!

Did you try using CR to open an older XSi file? (e.g., one that you have already opened successfully in the past?)
The idea is to find out whether your new XSi file happens to be corrupted.

I upgraded my camera and opening a camera raw file no longer works

I went from a Nikon D3000 to a Nikon D5200. I have an old version of Elements (version 8) and I no longer can open a camera raw file. I tried finding an answer in the support area but am not sure I found what I needed to know. Since my camera is new and didn't exist at the time I purchased Elements does that mean that my old version doesn't support my camera?

You need to buy PSE12 or Lightroom 5.
Alternatively, download and install the free Adobe DNG converter to convert your raw files to the Adobe universal Raw format and the files will open in all versions of PSE (keep your originals as backups and for use in the camera manufactures software)
Windows download (.exe file) click here DNG Converter 8.2
Mac download (.dmg file) click here DNG Converter 8.2
You can convert a whole folder of raw images in one click. See this quick video tutorial:
You Tube click here for DNG Converter tutorial

Camera RAW has stopped working - says requires that a qualifying product has been opened at least once. I am a fully up to date CC 2015 subscriber. It was working fine previously.

Camera RAW has stopped working. Says CR editing is not enabled. Requires a qualifying product opened at least once. PC CC, Bridge and Lightromm all work.

We're only up to CC 2014 right now.
Are you using Bridge to open up the RAW?

Bridge File Open in camer raw, is grayed out. Camera raw works in PS.

Why, when a raw file open in Bridge with a double click opens in camera raw, that same file in bridge the 'open camera raw' option in the file menu is grayed out?

There are 3 places to check this option, 1 in Bridge preferences itself, 1 in the camera raw preferences via Bridge and the last one in the PS preferences from PSCS3 itself.
They all should have a checkmark. But there are some issues with this option. You might also want to refresh the preferences with restarting Bridge an holding down option key and after doing so again check and set the prefs to your wishes.

"Camera Raw Preferences..." / "Open in Camera Raw" broken (using Bridge 2.1.1.9)

I'm having some trouble getting Bridge to see my Camera Raw plugin -- oddly enough, I can double-click on a raw file and it'll open in
ACR via Photoshop, but it won't load in
ACR on its own. On top of that, Bridge isn't showing me the thumbnails for any of my raw images (though it will show thumbnails for JPEGs) and both the "Camera Raw Preferences" and "Open in Camera Raw" menu items are grayed out:
For what it's worth, I'm running Adobe Bridge 2.1.1.9 and Photoshop CS3 10.0.1 on a MacBookPro running Leopard 10.5.2. Here's what I've tried so far:
I've read over the entire "
++ Debugging ACR Installation Problems ++" thread and I've done my best to precisely follow the directions there...
As mentioned in that thread, I've installed "Camera Raw.plugin" to Macintosh HD:Library/Application Support/Adobe/Plug-Ins/CS3/File Formats/ (and I've also searched my hard drive to confirm that this instance of "Camera Raw.plugin" is the only one on the drive) :
(If you click on the screenshot, you'll see a larger version.)
I've also checked Photoshop's About Plug-in menu and I've confirmed that "Camera Raw" appears exactly once:
After clicking on "Camera Raw" from the plug-in menu, I can confirm that it's version 4.4.1:
I've also run "Tools->Cache->Purge Cache" for various folders that have raw images and, along with that, I've tried manually deleting the Users/[Username]/Library/Caches/Adobe/Bridge folder.
Just for good measure, I've also tried starting up Bridge while holding down the Option key and then choosing the option to delete all the prefs from the dialog box that comes up.
Any ideas on where I've gone wrong?

I started experiencing this same problem three days ago when I installed ACR 4.5. I have been through the forums, trying anything and everything that has worked for other users. Finally, I hit on one crazy possibility.....and it worked.
ACR was working fine in Photoshop, but suddenly in Bridge it would not display thumbnails for my CR2 images or allow me to open them in Camera Raw.
So what fixed it for me? Remember, I had tried everything mentioned in all the posts and none of it fixed it. But one user pointed out that they only had "Camera Raw" show once in Photoshop's "About Plug-In" menu. I had noticed I had it appearing four times, once for 4.5 and once for each of the three previous versions! Working on a hunch, I went to the folder where CameraRaw.8bi exists and found that I had a "save" folder there as well. The save folder contained the three prior versions. I moved the save folder outside of this location -- AND ACR WORKS AGAIN IN BRIDGE!!!
So now I'm left to wonder only one thing -- did this work okay until I added 4.5, or did I somehow create the save folder (and add previous versions of ACR) in my sleep when I installed 4.5? In the end, I'm just happy that it works again.
I hope this helps a few others of you out there!

Scanner tif files opening in Camera Raw

With CS3 installed, some of my scanner generated tif files from an Imacon
scanner are now opening in Camera Raw window of PS CS3.
Windows XP SP2
Windows file type association set to Photoshop CS3 for tif files.
Using Windows explorer, choosing to open the tif file in CS2 works fine,
file opens directly in PS CS2.
Using Windows explorer, choosing to open in CS3 opens the same file in ACR
and then in PS CS3.
David

David,
Im glad you opened this thread. Im having the opposite problem. I have a scanner TIF image (sent to me by someone else) that we want to open in ACR. He had already opened it in CS3 ACR4 before sending it. I just installed CS3 today.
I tested this file at a local camera store yesterday and it behaved as I expected. That is, I could open in PS or ACR as desired via the fly-out menus. But after installing CS3 on my own machine, I could not (Camera Raw options grayed out). I checked with another local user. Same problems.
Then after reading this thread and purging the folder cache things started working, as I wanted them at least. I would assume the folder cache came from CS2.
So my question how does this really work? I will want to selectively use it in the future. If I look at the metadata for a NEF image is see camera data (exif) and camera raw data as expected. But I see neither for this image. And I would not expect a scanner to be embedding raw settings unless it truly supports a raw format.
When I tweak a few ACR settings and click done, the file is updated but no XMP sidecar file is created. I can now see camera raw settings in the metadata panels. This is not what I would expect. And I cant find any camera raw settings in the Photoshop file info panels for either file.
So, how do I control this behavior for future TIF images? Will I have to purge folder cache if it was created with CS2?
Cheers, Rags :-)

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
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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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In Adobe Bridge when I try to open my camera raws, I get a pop up box stating "Bridges parent application is not active. Bridge requires that a qualifying product has been launched at least once to enable this feature" What do I do? Please advise

In Adobe Bridge, when I try to open my camera raws, I get a pop up stating"Bridges parent application is not active. Bridge requires that a qualifying product has been launced at least once to enable this feature." What the heck? I have a PC and haven't had problems before.. I have adobe cloud and pay my monthly bill...

Have you opened Photoshop or any other Adobe app that Bridge works with? You need to do this if you've upgraded PS or just signed up for CC.

Bridge and Camera RAW preferences not working

I'm setting up a new Macbook Pro, late 2013 15", 10.9.2
CS6 Production Premium, Also have Indesign CS6, LR5, Acrobat Pro 11. Camera RAW is version 8.4. Everything is up to date.
Bridge and Camera RAW preferences are not working correctly. Bridge prefs related to Bridge display, e.g. color theme, text beneath thumbnails, favorite locations, etc.. all work fine. Bridge prefs open and close fine with no errors. "Double Click Edits Camera RAW Settings in Bridge" does not take. Photoshop launches to open Camera RAW regardless of whether this is checked or not. Camera RAW preferences will not open. Selecting "Camera RAW Preferences" from Bridge does nothing. Camera RAW seems to work fine hosted by Photoshop.
I tried a new user with the same results.
What's up with this? Anyone else seeing this? Solution?
--David

fixed it with this work around
Camera Raw 8.4 | No metadata or Camera Raw edit

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?

My issue started as ACR grayed out in Bridge using PS CC. No option in preference to open in Camera Raw.

My issue started as ACR grayed out in Bridge using PS CC. No option in preferences to open in Camera Raw. After browsing this forum I downloaded the most recent ACR and installed. Now Bridge stalls on the "building crieria" screen. There is a message to purge the cache but that screen stalls as well. I have force quite multiple times and re-started. Any suggestions?

As far as i know, photoshop cs2 and adobe bridge 1 (cs2) could not open jpegs or tiffs into camera raw, only camera raw files.
I believe photoshop cs3 was the first version to allow jpegs to be opened in camera raw.
Are you sure you had photoshop cs2 before?
If on the other hand, you can't open camera raw files that you used to be able to open, then you probably just need to update the camera raw plugin to version 3.7
windows
Adobe - Photoshop : For Windows : Camera Raw 3.7 update
mac
Adobe - Photoshop : For Macintosh : Camera Raw 3.7 update

CS3 - "Open in Camera Raw..." no longer working

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