ACR4.4&Bridge2.1.1.9 Bug or Change?

Walter_Kimmel · #1 03-31-2008, 07:50 PM

I upgraded Bridge and Camera RAW today. I'm now running CS3 Extended 10.0.1, Bridge 2.1.1.9, and Camera RAW 4.4 with WinXPPro, service pack 2.

Up until I upgraded, if I right-clicked a thumbnail of a CR2 file, one of the choices was Open In Camera Raw, and when ACR came up, it was hosted by Bridge.

Now, when I right click as above, I don't get the choice Open In Camera Raw. It is not simply grayed out. It isn't there. The choices I get are: Open, and Open With. The latter gives the choice of Photoshop (Default) or Foxfire. (My online browser.)

Is anybody seeing this change when right-clicking, or have I got something corrupted?

Dennis_Vied · #2 03-31-2008, 10:23 PM

Boy, I can't figure out how you got that in the first place. First, are you talking about right-clicking in Windows Explorer? When I right click on a CR2 file, one of the choices under Open With is CS3, which will open it in ACR.

If I use Browse to try and set it up to open in ACR, it is rejected because ACR is a plug-in, not a program. I tried selecting Bridge, but it opened up in a Bridge browser window, not in ACR.

So, you got me stumped right off the bat.

It occurs to me that you could go into the file associations and set it up to open in CS3, but I don't see how you could select ACR, since it is a plug-in and not a program.

Walter_Kimmel · #3 04-01-2008, 09:58 AM

I've been using CS3 since it came out. I'm talking about right-clicking on the thumbnail in Bridge, not Windows Explorer. The context menu has consistently had the choice of Open In Camera Raw. What would happen was that the ACR window would open with the one or more selected CR2 files, and the "Done" box with the focus as default, indicating that Bridge rather than CS3 was hosting ACR.

All that disappeared with the latest upgrade of ACR and Bridge.

In the Luminous Landscape forum I discovered that I am not the only person to experience this, while some others have not.

I'm going to uninstall CS3, BRidge, etc and start from scratch again.

If you right-click on a raw thumbnail in Bridge and don't get the choice "Open In Camera Raw," you have the same problem that I now have.

Jerry Skrocki · #4 04-01-2008, 11:38 AM

Walter,

I think what you are looking for is actually in the Photoshop CS3 preference menu.

Dennis_Vied · #5 04-01-2008, 12:46 PM

Ok, I understand Walt. I just tried my setup, and I do get the Open in Camera Raw on the right click menu, and I also have the CS3 preferences set as Jerry suggests. I also note that there is a check box in the Bridge preferences for "double-clicking to set Camera RAW settings." When I double click on a CR2 file, it also opens it in Camera RAW.

(I am also updated to the same versions you are, however, I am not Extended).

Walter_Kimmel · #6 04-01-2008, 10:12 PM

Dennis, I replaced my ACR4.4 file with another that I freshly downloaded, and my Open In Camera Raw choice is back. I guess the 1st file had been corrupted during the download or installation.

However, I have another question: I use Bridge with a vertical filmstrip on the right and very large Preview window in the center.

I can select anywhere from 1 to 9 thumbnails and have them come up in the Preview area. But if I select more than 9, the Preview shows only the first 9, and no scroll bar appears, so I can't see the others in the preview window.

It is my recollection that in the previous version of Bridge, all the selected thumbnails would have their counterparts in the Preview window. They would simply get smaller to accommodate the greater number.

Have I got another anomaly, or did they change something in the new version? Or was 9 actually the limit of images in the Preview area?

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