Issue
You do not see any Camera Raw features in Adobe Bridge CS3 on Mac OS.
Details
- Open In Camera Raw does not appear in the File menu or context menus, and nothing happens when you press this command's keyboard shortcut, Command+R.
- Develop Settings does not appear in the Edit menu or context menus.
- Camera Raw Preferences does not appear in the Bridge CS3 menu.
- When you open a camera raw file, the Camera Raw dialog box does not open in Bridge. Instead, the file opens in the Camera Raw dialog box in Adobe Photoshop Elements 6, or the file opens in a different application.
Solution
Workaround: Open camera raw files in the Camera Raw dialog box in Photoshop Elements 6.
If an application other than Photoshop Elements 6 opens a camera raw file when you open it from Bridge, then do the following.
- Open Bridge CS3.
- Choose Bridge CS3 > Preferences.
- Choose File Type Associations from the list of preference categories.
- In the list of file types, locate a camera raw file type that you use.
- Choose Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0 from the pop-up menu beside the file type.
Note: If Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0 is not available, choose Browse from the pop-up menu. Then navigate to /Applications/Adobe Photoshop Elements 6, select the Adobe Photoshop Elements application file, and click Open. - Repeat Steps 4 and 5 for other camera raw file types that you use.
- Click OK.
You can also open camera raw files in Photoshop Elements 6 without using Bridge:
- Open Photoshop Elements 6.
- Choose File > Open.
- Navigate to a folder that contains one or more camera raw files.
- Click to select one file, or Command-click or Shift-click to select multiple files.
- Click Open.
Additional Information
This issue occurs when you obtained Bridge CS3 when you installed Photoshop Elements 6 for Mac OS. Camera Raw features are not hosted in this version of Bridge CS3.
The Camera Raw dialog box and menu commands are available in Bridge CS3 only when you install Photoshop CS3, After Effects CS3, or Creative Suite 3.