Camera Raw features missing (Solved)

[redhed17]

Hello all, I got the chance to have a go of a newer version of Photoshop (v22), and the Camera Raw plugin. When it came to sharpening, or the detail tab, there seemed to be less features available than I was expecting. When sharpening I usually use the masking, to only sharpen but there was no option there, but in the detail setting of Camera Raw, masking was not an option.

In the past I think I had, as in Lightroom;
Detail
Sharpening-
Amount
Radius
Detail
Masking

Noise Reduction-
Luminance
Color
Detail
Smoothness

But in the version of Photoshop I tried;
Detail
Sharpening
Noise Reduction
Color Noise Reduction

Am I wrong, did Camera Raw have similar Detail options to Lightroom, or was there something I was missing in Photoshop Camera Raw I was using?

 

[sk66]

In the current version of LR Classic I don't have an amount slider. I am also using PS 22.2 and ACR 13.4 with the same options for sharpening (S/R/D/M), but only the primary slider for the two noise reductions.
Sounds like you may have a much older version of ACR which is a separate download.

 

[redhed17]

I have been searching for about an hour trying to find the solution to my problem. I tried Google first, with various combinations of words, with no luck. Every so often I try Bing as it gives different results to Google. I put "detail options missing in adobe camera raw" and clicked on the first link, and it was this thread. The 2nd link had the solution, and while it may be so obvious to some, it had me baffled after nearly 20 years of using Photoshop.

Here is what I was seeing when I clicked the Detail section in Camera Raw.


Some of you clever people may see the solution. I found the answer here. What you need to do is click the triangles at the end of each row to reveal the other options in Detail.









And when you do that, you get all of the options to show. I had never seen this problem before or heard of it obviously, but this is how ACR opened by default, and so could catch others out. Hopefully this will help someone else in the future.