Opening a JPG file in Camaera Raw Elements 9

[Brian101]

I know it can be done but can't find how!
To open and edit a jpg in ACR Elements 9??
Anyone help me please?

[ladybug]

I do not have pse9 but perhaps it is the same.
File-open as(drop down box choose Camera Raw.
Thanks Julie i edited my post to show the complete path.

[Brian101]

Thank you for your reply but I do not have an option for "open as".

[JulieM]

Hi Brian: Are you on a Mac? If so, go to File>Open, then select the jpeg file and in the dropdown that is labeled Format, select Camera Raw.

[Brian101]

Thank you JulieM b.

I am on a PC and do not seem to have this option but I know it can be done because I remember once doing it!!

[JulieM]

Brian: Alt-Ctrl-O (not Alt-Ctrl-zero) is the keyboard shortcut to bring up the Open As dialog. Make sure you are in the Editor and not the Organizer. Let us know if that works...

[moonrakerz]

My method !

Select photo in Organiser: Export as New File to Desktop.
Open photo selected in Organiser (in fact - any photo) in the Editor.
Select "File" - "Open As"

[JulieM]

Originally Posted by moonrakerz

My method !

Select photo in Organiser: Export as New File to Desktop.
Open photo selected in Organiser (in fact - any photo) in the Editor.
Select "File" - "Open As"

Hi Moonrakerz,

I'm not quite sure what you mean. You must first export the jpeg file from the Organizer onto the Desktop before you can use "Open As" Camera Raw in Editor? Otherwise "Open As" isn't an option?

[Tom Cat]

Brian:

I have ver 9 windows 7, and you should have under the file menu (open As) Look again! Then the last folder you had pictures in that you opened will come up. Next go down to the types of files you want to open and pick camera raw, then click on the jpg you want to open and it will open in camera raw. Again if you do not have open as under the file menu, then maybe you need to reinstall from the original disks. Edited Brain, you are not trying to open the file from camera raw itself perhaps? You should be in the PSE Editor File menu.

[moonrakerz]

Originally Posted by JulieM

Hi Moonrakerz,

I'm not quite sure what you mean. You must first export the jpeg file from the Organizer onto the Desktop before you can use "Open As" Camera Raw in Editor? Otherwise "Open As" isn't an option?

You need to be in the Editor to get the "Open As" option. You don't HAVE to export the file you want - but I just find it a better way of doing it. It isn't an evolution I do a lot of times, but that is the way I have grown used to doing it.

You can just open the Editor with the photo you wish to open in RAW, but when you go to "Open As" you get a selection of files to "open as", you then have to sort through them and find the one you want. The file selection that will appear depends on what you were doing previously.
With the file you want on the desk top you can clearly see the thumbnail of the one you want without having to hunt through others.

To use a modern "buzz-word", it seems to me a more "intuitive" way of doing it