Adobe Camera Raw 9

With Adobe Camera Raw 9, the new merge to hdr and merge to panorama features are also available through Adobe Bridge as well as LightRoom 6. Here's a web page that describes how that works.

http://www.technologyt​ell.com …-raw-9-new-full-features/

For some reason, and I'm not sure if this is the norm or just my set up, after I merge and save the hdr.dng file, I don't have the option to open into photoshop while still in ACR. I have to close that, go back to the thumbnail view in Bridge and double click to open the hdr.dng file back into ACR. Now I can either do more edits in ACR or just open in photoshop.

I selected 4 raw files from the PS Open dialog and clicked "Open..." I did not go through Bridge.

They all open in ACR 9.0, with the filmstrip view along the left side of the ACR window, as usual. I selected all of them and right-clicked on one and got the same fly-out menu that is shown in the article to which you linked - it gives me the HDR and Pano options. I chose HDR and the merge window comes up, similar to the merge window in LR6/CC.

I chose Merge and the "Save" dialog window comes up - I picked a location and hit Save. The merge is made and the merged result then appears at the bottom of the filmstrip as a DNG with the name specified in the Save window. It does not appear there until the Save is done, though. You can see the save activity just like you would normally see when you do a Save from the ACR dialog (1 file remaining... etc.).

Once the new file appears in the film strip, you can select it and use the ACR controls to tone it. Then you can open it in PS, etc.

kirk

Thanks Kirk,

It's very odd. When I use 'File>Open' inside photoshop as you suggested and go through the selecting/merging process and once I save the merged .dng file, I now have the option to open it in photoshop.

Same here. Can't open the merged dng when I feed the process from Bridge. Have to quit ACR and re-open the dng.

A minor annoyance that will hopefully get fixed in a year or two.