In edit>camera raw there is a check box on opening raw files in jpeg or not.

You make that change in the Bridge preferences, not the Photoshop preferences. If you cannot find it, if you hold down the shift key while you double-click your JPEG image, it will bypass ACR and open directly in Photoshop. Or, you can highlight your JPEG image in Bridge and press Ctrl/O and it will open in Photoshop.

Heiner & Jim,

I have the same problem and have had. Today, I finally reinstalled Windows from scratch, and installed Photoshop with Bridge just to see what would happen and had the same issue.

Bridge->Edit->Preferences->General In the Behavior section all that appears is Number of Recent Items to Display. Raw does not show up anywhere in any Bridge menus.

Prefer Adobe Camera Raw for JPEG and TIFF files on the Thumbnails tab also has no effect. Raw works fine in Photoshop but not Bridge.

This must be a known issue as I have seen it posted on other forums. And, it used to work under CS2.

Any solutions to this problem would be greatly appreciated.

Here is what I did after hours of trying:
(1) Cut the Camera raw plug-in from the suggested directory, e.g .../Common Files/Adobe/Plug-Ins/CS3/File Format
(2) Paste previously cut Camera Raw plug-in into Bridge's Plug-in directory
(3) Start Bridge, 'open' raw file, of course this time PS will complain it can not find the plug-in.
(4) Close Bridge and copy camera raw and paste it to PS's /plug-ins/File Formats/ directory
(5) Start bridge again, and this time you may still no 'Open with camera raw' option, in this case just open a raw file in PS and leave it open in PS
(6) Go back to Bridge, right click on a raw file and, in my case, the damn option was right there!

This is what I did in exact order.
Maybe the point is to move Camera raw plug-in from "Common File" to both Bridge and PS own plug-in directory.
I'm so tired to figure that out, maybe someday I'll uninstall them all and play with it all over again, bu for now, I'll leave that.

Have a good night, guys.

I uninstalled and then reinistalled Bridge 1.0 and that seems to have fixed the problem.

You have to drill down into the CS2 CD to find the installer for Bridge 1.0. It is not exposed on the regular the CS2 install menus.

ADOBE: you lost me as a customer as a result of a horribly failed and disastrous CS3 upgrade and roll back. I'll never upgrade from CS2 and I'll never buy another Adobe product. You seem to not understand the most basic concept: professionals need tools they can rely on to work. I can find work arounds for anything if I can count on my tools. Broken and flawed tools, however, cannot be relied on to do anything and they wind up in the trash.

The ACR plug-in should be here and nowhere else!

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Plugins\CS3\File Formats.

You need to have all the right boxes ticked in Bridge and Photoshop preferences.

Same problem here... There is no "Open with camera Raw" in Bridge. I can only open using Camera Raw throught PS CS3. Tried every step in this post.

Tried too to reinstall Adobe PS + Bridge. No success...

Adobe: any light in the end of this tunnel?

Thanks in advance for any help...

Might also take a look at this thread on the grayed out option to "open in camera raw". Has a solution that has worked for some.

http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b516f6/4

I had this problem March 22, hacked it, but I'm back because yesterday I discovered it had happened again while on location at a shoot. As a professional, I can't afford to rely on tools that keep breaking. So I'm switching to Photo Mechanic TODAY. Adios Adobe!

Despite grinding down a complete Adobe and MS deinstall of CS3, there are still CS3 folders lurking around on my system. So I suspect we're getting clobbered by an Adobe Update that is being pump faked by a buggy CS3 install/deinstall. Who knows what is happening. I no longer care.

John, I (along with many others) have read the "link in it's entirety and followed the instructions exactly." It didn't solve the problem or I (at least) wouldn't be here taking up everyone's precious time and bandwidth. We've all reached the stage of desperation well beyond that one reaches when an admonishment to "read the directions" is helpful.

OK, I've now tried the sledgehammer approach... Uninstalled CS3 AGAIN, for about the 5th time. Then ran the old (and as far as I can find, ONLY) cleanup script for CS3. THEN went through all the adobe directories on every disk of the machine and deleted them. And the common files AND the Documents and Settings directories... So, unless CS3 is STILL leaving garbage in some mystical location where neither its uninstall nor the cleanup script, NOR my searching can find them, this machine is about as clean as I know how ot make it before a re-install...

And re-installed CS3 from the original media AGAIN.... Which puts some ancient version of camera raw in a subdirectory of the common files tree....... And 2.0.0.975 of Bridge......

And, true to form, I HAVE NO PREFERENCE TO TURN ON raw CONVERSION FROM BRIDGE. No updates, no changes, no NOTHING. Just an install from the original media.....

So, I installed Bridge 2.0. And STILL got no RAW Converter from Bridge...

So, I installed Bridge 2.1.... And, you guessed it, STILL nothing...

Oh, and John, my reading comprehension is quite good. And I've READ the notes in THEIR ENTIRETY. THEY DO NOT FIX THE PROBLEM....

NOW would somebody over at Adobe PLEASE get us a SOLUTION FOR THIS? I know you're the 800 pound gorilla, but do you guys at Adobe have ANY idea how much stupid crap like this makes people using these products FERVENTLY hope some other company will come up with a Photoshop killer so we can switch instead of spending months trying to get this kind of incredibly annoying garbage fixed?
(I'll let everyone else add the vulgarities where they'd like)...

Its always convenient to blame the user instead of fixing the problem, but did YOU ever ask yourself "Why is this happening on <pick your greater-than-zero number> of computers?"  Or "Why did it work on this computer and now, after having to reinstall CS3, it doesn't?  This isn't the only post in here about the problem, nor the only forum on the Internet where this has come up.  So, when somebody over there gets tired of trying to deflect or ignore the problem, could we insignificant users who are having the problem please get a SOLUTION?

The problems with the "SOLUTION" is that all computers have different hardware and software that makes an almost infinite combination of problems. If the software works as designed on 98%? of the computers then it is probably judged a success by the company. With the 2%? of the users that are having problems it is extremely frustrating, but if the software was tweeked to work with their computer most likely other users would experience problems.

The challenge for the user experiencing problems that others don't have is to figure out where the conflict is, and this is no easy task. Some great mind needs to design a "Find the *&^$@(!* Problem" software.

One solution is to have all computers have the same software, hardware, and OS. Oh wait, that was how Apple started isn't it?

This is a user-to-user forum. If you would like to notify Adobe of the problem you are having, use the information on the following page to contact them:

http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/

Most of the key factors about this issue have been noted, but I will summarize and add as I am able.

- I am assuming that everyone here is talking about CS3 Bridge, and so the following information has been tailored to the current version.

- In my experience, to have Camera Raw features in Bridge, you must have installed Photoshop, a Creative Suite, or After Effects; installing Bridge with any other program will not include this feature.

- The Camera Raw plug-in (Camera Raw.8bi) should be installed to the common files directory (C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Plug-Ins\CS3\File Formats), and all other instances of the plug-in should be removed. Also note that having any other files in this common files directory, including an .EXE file or a .DLL, can prevent the plug-in from loading.

- Verify that Bridge is up-to-date with version 2.1.1.9. In addition to this update, Bridge requires that you have installed the Version Cue 3.1.0 Client update and the Asset Services 3.1.0 update for it to run correctly. All of these updates can be obtained through Adobe Updater (Help->Updates in Photoshop) or on the following page:

http://www.adobe.com/go/updates

- Check that you are running the latest version of Camera Raw. At the time of this writing, it was 4.4.1.

- If you can access it, and you are having problems opening TIFF or JPEG images in Camera Raw, open the Camera Raw preferences (under the Edit menu). Make sure the two options on the bottom are checked ("Always open JPEGs..." and "Always open TIFFs...").

- Try enabling the following options in the Bridge preferences and then restart the application before trying again:
Click Edit--Preferences...
Under the General section, check the "Double-Click Edits Camera Raw Settings in Bridge" option.
Under the Thumbnails section, check the "Prefer Adobe Camera Raw for JPEG and TIFF Files" option.

- Try resetting the Bridge preferences and cache to see if that resolves the issue. To do this, hold down CTRL when you launch Bridge, check all three options in the Reset Settings dialog, then click OK.

- Try Steps 3, 4, and 11 in the following document:

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=317912

- Create a new user account on the computer, log out of your current one, log into the new one, and then see if the Camera Raw items in Bridge function correctly there. If you are in an office environment, create a local account that does not log onto the network domain. (You may have to contact your IT department to have rights to create local accounts.)
If you current user account in Windows is a "standard" or "limited" then compare to how it works in an administrator account. If it does not function in an existing admin account, create a new admin account and try it.

I hope this was of some assistance.

Heiner,

If you activate the "Prefer Camera Raw for JPEG......" option you can still open a JPEG image without going through Camera Raw by highlighting the image and then pressing Ctrl+0 (that is the letter O). And (I think) you can also hold down the shift key while you double-click a JPEG image and it will bypass Camera Raw.

Laszio,

The first thing I would suggest would be to hold down the Ctrl key while you start Bridge. A dialog will appear that will allow you to reset your preferences. Choose all three options then proceed. That has reportedly resolved this issue for some people.

thx jim. The point is i want to open raw files so i can use them to create HDR photos. I do not want to open jpeg files which i have no trouble opening in photoshop anyhow.

Fried i get your drift. I never had CS2 installed on this computer so not an issue

You have to take different exposures. The Photoshop HDR feature requires that. If you take your multiple images, and then set up Photoshop properly, you should be able to do exactly what you want to do.

I'm not totally clear on the issue, but I do know that once you have openened a particular JPEG in Camera RAW, it will always do so in the future.
I have not personally tried to fix the issue, but I do know that if I then export the JPEG from the RAW converter to a duplicate JPEG, the resulting JPEG will again open in PS3 as normal. Hope that's clear...
Good Luck!

Lorrin: perhaps it is my lack of knowledge. When I expose an image with my camera, the result is two files of the same image. One is a RAW image file, while the other is a JPEG image file. I simply wanted to open the RAW file in PS3, not the JPEG file. Am I not understanding something? Am I doing something I should not be doing?

It sounds like your Windows file associations may not be how you want them.
If you right click on a JPEG in Windows Explorer and go to Properties, you shoud have an option "Opens With:". Click the Change button and select "Adobe Photoshop CS3".
I think the only reason a RAW file would open in any other application is if your camera came with its own application, in which case you would want to do the above on a RAW file in Windows Explorer, or uninstall the other application altogether.
At work, I use Bridge as my file explorer when working with RAWs (so I have thumbnails). In this case, I simply select any/all RAW files I want to edit (selecting multiple files using the CTRL or SHIFT keys) and press CTRL+R, which opens the RAWs in the CS3 RAW converter.
All of my JPEGs (even those produced simply as a duplicate to the RAW by my camera) open with the application I have set in my Windows properties dialog, unless of course I have previously opened them in the RAW converter.
Hope I am understanding and hope that helps?

Lorrin

I use mainly a Leica Digilux 2 for shooting RAW and for some reason it automatically produces a duplicate JPEG - I'm assuming it uses it for in-camera previews. I rarely use the JPEG but have not bothered searching for a setting to do away with it.