Good News For Elements 8 Mac Users

I've been playing around with it since it was released yesterday and found out something very useful.

Elements 6 was bundled with Bridge CS3 whilst Elements 8 comes with Bridge CS4. Previously with PSE6, CMD+R would not open ACR, unlike in the full version of Photoshop.

The good news is that now CMD+R opens ACR direct from Bridge without having to open Elements at all.

The even better news is that it is the full version of ACR, complete with localised adjustment brush, HSL/grayscale, lens correction tabs etc!

It's a slight faff, in that you have to edit your shots via Bridge, then save the edits, then reopen the Raws [launching Elements normal hamstrung version of ACR] to convert them in Elements to a Jpeg or Tiff. An alternative would be to batch process them I suppose but I haven't tried that yet.

Just thought I'd give a heads up to all those Mac users who've just got the latest version of Elements.

Further to this, and excuse my ignorance, there's no faff involved at all. You can process the Raw files direct from ACR in Bridge without needing to touch Elements whatsoever. You just need to click on the Save button in the bottom left corner and get the usual choices of Jpeg etc. This hasn't been possible in Elements' ACR before, you had to open them in Elements or use Elements' batch processing, so overlooked it!

Interesting, but not worth the $80. I'd much rather put that money towards LR.

Thanks though for the info.
Gene

kini wrote in post #8815418
Interesting, but not worth the $80. I'd much rather put that money towards LR.

Thanks though for the info.
Gene

It is pretty impressive, though, that mac users can get a good pixel editor AND an excellent RAW converter (with all the bells and whistles) in one package... and typically I can find it on sale for $50-60. Especially in this economy $50 is alot easier to swallow than $299. {Though we ARE talking about mac users, so moneys not typically an object. )

(Just Kidding, BTW)