Unable to open Canon T4i camera raw files in PSE10

Question

I have a new Canont41 and I can't sign on to elements org
Message title was edited by: Brett N

Answer 1

The t4i is supplied with Canon's DPP RAW editor. Use that to set up your tonality and other structure including adjustment of chromatic abberation under the tool palette lens tab tuning section. I recommend you do not use the unsharp masking in the sharpening section of DPP in the RAW or RGB tab. Do USM in PSE if desired after final sizing/cropping/resoluton modifications. Other settings in the RGB and other tabs will be applied when you Convert and save as a 16 bit or 8 bit non-lossy .tif file for editing in PSE 10. Many tools in PSE 10 only work with 8 bit files anyway so I recommend you choose that option.
From the product page for the 4ti select drivers and software, enter your operating system, then version, then expand the software section. DPP 3.11.31 is the latest version which includes the new lens features. You need to have your version of DPP that came with the camera installed first from the CD, then run the downloaded update file.
Adobe limits the functions of its ACR RAW module anyway in PSE so using DPP should get you more features plus it recognizes Canon's proprietary settings in the "recipe" data embedded in the Canon RAW file that ACR or the DNG converter can miss. ACR uses Adobe's profiles for initial editing while DPP uses the data from the camera for initial setup. You chose that data in the various camera setup menus such as picture style, color space, etc., which can be modified in its embedded "recipe" and should be picked up in PSE.
A reminder that in RAW editing is is the embedded recipe data that is modified in DPP so the RAW pixels are not modified for most functions and they are modified in the export file only.