ACR 5.7 different in CS4 and Elements 7/8

[Bristolian]

Howdy folks,

There is a wealth of knowledge in this forum which I hope to be able to tap into. Up until now most of my post processing has been done in Capture NX2 but it doesn't play well on my Windows 7 desktop pc and is incredibly slow on my XP laptop - this last is not a criticism of CNX2 ... it's an old laptop

Anyway, I've also used CS4Extended in the past but it's a bulky programme with loads more features than I'm ever going to need to I bought Elements 7 a while back and have been playing with that. The version of ACR that is installed in Elements 7 is 5.6 whilst CS4 has 5.7. I have noticed that when going to save a file edited in 5.6 the only option is to save it as a .dng file but in 5.7 (CS4) you can also save as .jpg and .tif.

Today I have downloaded the trial version of Elements 8 and updated the ACR to 5.7 and was surprised to see that it too only has the .dng option when saving. The CS4 and Elements 8 versions of ACR both display as 5.7.0.213 so I was expecting the same options in both. Anyone else noticed this, or have I got a duff installation :shrug:

TIA - and apologies for the long post

 

[whiteflyer]

Your right and wrong LOL

IF your on a Windows machine your get organizer with Elements 8 which I guess only allows you to open the image via Elements 8 and ACR in this case as you say only the ,dng option is available.

Now in the OSX (mac) version of Elements 8 you also get a full blown copy of Adobe Bridge CS4 which will give you all the file saving option as in the full Photoshop suite.

 

[Bristolian]

Hmmm, Mark, I'm not sure about the relevance of Organiser or Bridge as I don't actually use either. Yes, I'm using Windoze machines but prefer to use the Windows file explorer to locate and open files in CS4/Elements.