RAW in PSE Editor

[rbd]

I am following a video tip in Photo Elements User and not getting past first base. Here's the problem, I have opened an image in the RAW converter, made adjustments and opened in the PSE Editor. I am trying to reopen the original RAW file to make further adjustments so that I can merge the two. However, PSE will not reopen the original file while the first adjustment is in the bin as per the video tip. Can anyone help?

[CoffeePixels]

What I do is save the file I currently have open in the Editor as a PSD, which then releases the RAW file (well, it wasn't editing the RAW file anyway so it didn't really release it...), thus allowing Adobe RAW to open it again.

[Byron Gale]

rbd,

If you're referring to the recent video "Using Camera RAW and Editing Together" by Matt K.... you're right.

Apparently, on a Mac, you can re-open the same image again while it is still open in Editor.

In Windows, it recognizes that you already have that file open and just takes you to the already-open copy in Editor.

As an alternative to CoffeePixels' suggestion, you can do this... after you get the file open in Editor the first time, Duplicate it, then close the original. Then Windows will let you re-open the RAW file again to get the second rendition.

This is another case where the techniques shown in the videos aren't the same cross-platform -- and being Mac-centric, the Photoshop Guys sometimes fail to catch the gaps.

Byron

[ljameso1]

Actually on a mac, you can open the same raw file as many times as you want without closing previous versions. I, too, didn't know pc's can't. Saving with a new file name should work, though.

[Byron Gale]

There is a new version of the video, now, which instructs to save the first rendition as a PSD file before re-opening in ACR.

Thanks, TPTB!!!! :D

[rbd]

Thanks for your help. This forum is new to me and I am finding it a revelation,