PS Elements Advice- Please

Please excuse my ignorance I am new to this whole experience!

I decided to take some RAW photographs, however I had an error message saying that Adobe PS Elements 6.0 was unable to download the photographs I had shot in RAW which was annoying as they were then duly deleted, even more annoying as I had got up at 05:00.

I guess my question is Can elements handle RAW? If so what did I do wrong?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

AG30

Most likely you just need to download the latest version of Camera Raw that works with Elements 6. Try the Help/Update feature. If you don't get a download message, you may have to go to the Adobe Support site and find the latest for ACR.

I'd Google Adobe Camera Raw Elements 6 and find the link to Adobe's actual support.

Here's a link you can check out:

http://www.adobe.com …ads/detail.jsp?​ftpID=3824

What I don't have are details as to whether Elements 6 will support a version new than the one on the link. Also, your camera model makes a difference -- the newest models require the version that comes with Elements 7, but you can convert a Raw file to DNG that will also let you work with it. For the newest cameras you'll want the free DNG converter that is the latest version, maybe 5.4 or some such thing.

Yes. Google Photoshop Elements 6.0 Camera RAW and it will come up and please read the READ ME file as it tells you step by step which file to delete and which to add.

Thanks very much for your help I do appreciate it. I will try this later this evening when I return from work. Once again many thanks. Andyg

elements sucks for processing multiple RAW files. I would strongly suggest processing the RAW files in Canon's DPP program. Then use PSE6 for any further edits on the TIF or JPG you get from DPP. That's what I do anyway.

I'm not sure I'd completely agree with you there re multiple processing.

I open up multiple Raw files in Camera Raw [worked through about 60 shots last night], edit them until I'm happy then click done. The pain is that you then have to go back into Bridge [or organiser for Windows folk] and tell Elements to process the multiple files into Jpegs/Tiffs rather than simply clicking the batch process button like in DPP. I'd agree that that part is a bit flaky, but there's nothing to stop you editing 100+ pictures in Camera Raw at any one time.

I think that's the point tkbslc is making. When run under Photoshop Elements, the Adobe Camera RAW is "crippled" compared to how it functions in the full version of Photoshop or Lightroom. With either of those programs or DPP, you can get true batch processing. Certainly there's a workaround in Elements but you're required to make multiple clicks and its not a really productive way to work.

Photoshop Elements is really designed to only work on one RAW file at a time.

Electric Shepherd wrote in post #8518783
I'm not sure I'd completely agree with you there re multiple processing.

I open up multiple Raw files in Camera Raw [worked through about 60 shots last night], edit them until I'm happy then click done. The pain is that you then have to go back into Bridge [or organiser for Windows folk] and tell Elements to process the multiple files into Jpegs/Tiffs rather than simply clicking the batch process button like in DPP. I'd agree that that part is a bit flaky, but there's nothing to stop you editing 100+ pictures in Camera Raw at any one time.

PixelMagic wrote in post #8519017
I think that's the point tkbslc is making. When run under Photoshop Elements, the Adobe Camera RAW is "crippled" compared to how it functions in the full version of Photoshop or Lightroom. With either of those programs or DPP, you can get true batch processing. Certainly there's a workaround in Elements but you're required to make multiple clicks and its not a really productive way to work.

Photoshop Elements is really designed to only work on one RAW file at a time.

Yes, that is a more elegant way of typing what I was trying to say. Plus, I think DPP actually ends up with better looking images than ACR. I don't think Adobe quite nails the colors and contrast like Canon can.

Also with ACR you end up with extra sidecar files or a whole seperate DNG. One more file to worry about per image....

I'd have to agree 100% on the colour issue, I prefer DPP's sharpening and noise reduction too. It's my preferred Raw converter, but I just wish it had arbritrary straightening and highlight recovery