How do I edit in Camera Raw?

The only option for editing a file is in Photoshop CS4, but I want to edit in Camera RAW. How do I set this up?

How do I edit in Camera Raw?

/you sure you want to? The only thing Lightroom doesn't have that Camera Raw does is a point curves editor...otherwise all of the Camera raw editing is in Lightroom. When you go to open in Photoshop, Lightroom does the rendering, not Camera Raw. It's kinda the whole reason for having Lightroom...

How do I edit in Camera Raw?

What is it you wish to edit? How does LR fit into your workflow??LR is rather designed to edit, non-destructively, RAW files.

When you edit in Lightroom you are doing everything that can be done in Camera Raw.?The Camera Raw functionality is built into Lightroom.?So after you have done everything you can do in Lightroom, and still need to do more, Photoshop is the next logical step.

I use Lightroom as an image database. I prefer using CS4 to make my adjustments. After downloading a card to Lightroom, I want to edit files in Camera Raw, then open them in CS4.

As far as I know if you select a raw file in Lightroom and select edit in PS CS4 then it will open PS CS4 and the ACR plugin dialog box. Then you can proceed to edit the raw file in Camera Raw.

Adobe Camera Raw is a plugin for Photoshop so needs Photoshop for it to run.

Lightroom has the same raw conversion engine as ACR (it is CameraRaw with other functions) operating as a stand alone program.

If you have Lightroom you do not even need Photoshop to carry out the same functions that can be done in ACR.

You can skip ACR quite nicely, and as Jeff points out, the only thing you can't do is use point curves in LR. You'll save several steps if you skip Bridge, and after a bit of learning curve, I suspect you'll like the improvement in so doing.

Thanks for the response.

Wendy

I have the same question and I don't see the answer in this thread sofar.

- When I open the raw file for edit in CS4 it opens in CS4, not ACR.

- I dearly miss that point edit curve in LR
- applying local adjustments in LR is for me/my config (Dell 670 precision, 3 Gb RAM, NVidia Quadro FX 1400, LR 2.5) very slow responding, lagging in time, drawing adjustments (mask) when moving my pen to the side panels, doing spot removal it fails to ''land'' (keeps following the pen when working fast). And it gets worse doing a lot of these local adjustments.

Things I do not experience when working in ACR.

So how could I solve this?

So how could I solve this?

Thanks Jao, I just have come to the same solution. Is there any progress on this slugginess in LR? I have read a lot of posts, but no real solutions (that work for me that is)

I don't know. For me it works just fine, about similar to ACR. For other

people that report on this forum, it apparently is extremely slow and

sluggish. It is hard for me to tell why there are such big discrepancies.

Hardware speed would be strange. My stuff is certainly nothing special

nowadays.

Have you looked at your nVidia settings? Go through switching off and testing.

Yes John, have done all that to no avail. What keep's me wondering is why ACR (same engine) works great and LR not on the same machine. Does that point to hardware or does it point to software (database) or a combination... some work to do Adobe, because this (local editing) is not as it should be. I can live with it, unless a have a big job (10.000+ images) and doing local adjustments the way they work for me now in LR is not the way to go.

Thanks all.

I have the same frustration with sluggish sliders in LR, but ACR works great.?I changed some video card settings and that helped, but the thing I find helps the most is to reorganize the database frequently.?Things do perk up a bit for a while.?However, it's never as responsive as ACR.?Since I have CS3, I still use LR to edit to get all the latest features.

This makes me wonder - perhaps the slider sluggishness is caused by the updating of the history in the database interfering with handling the UI.?Just speculation, though.