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Kitsap Guy
March 20th, 2009, 05:42 PM
Hi again...with another Mac user problem.

Suddenly today, when I double-clicked on the Canon Raw images in iPhoto to bring them into PSE4 - just like always - they opened as jpegs, and not in the camera raw editor. I thought maybe the camera raw plug-in was out of date so I googled and thought I saw where a new plug-in (4.3.1) had replaced the 3.7 version. I downloaded and installed it, and it now shows up in 'About Plug-in' and in the local disk directory like this: (Library/Application Support/Adobe/Plug-ins/CS2/File Formats/Camera Raw.plug-in). I don't know what CS2 is doing there since I don't have it, but there's a lot I don't understand...). Anyway, the Canon Raw images still opened as jpegs.

Then, after more googleing, I found that there was a Photoshop Elements 4.0.1 compatibility update which is needed to install and use the latest plug-in, so I downloaded that. But in order to install that, it says I need to download a .bin file, which usually requires a .cue file. I have no idea what these files are, where you get them, etc. etc. Anyway, this seems way overly complicated. Is all this really required just to update your plug-in??

I do still have the 3.7 version sitting on my desktop if needed.

I'm really confused now...I don't know if I needed a new plug-in or not in the first place, or if I goofed up the install instructions. Any ideas on getting out of this forest? Thanks very much.

Lon

Kitsap Guy
March 20th, 2009, 06:42 PM
Here's a little update...problem partially solved by dragging the Canon Raw image from iPhoto to the Finder, and then opening with PSE 4. It will open in the camera raw editor that way, but it's a fussy workaround. I wish I could just double-click on the image like before. I'll keep looking...