jpg as raw?

divamum

Why would CS3 suddenly start opening a jpg in the RAW editor?

I've been playing with lightroom on some files - does LR have some kind of tag it embeds or something? If not, is there a setting I can change or something I can do to make it stop?!? The file is *definitely* a .jpg file. For sure. Shot as a jpg, edited as a jpg, saved as a jpg.

All very strange....

pathfinder

Check your Camera Raw preferences in Bridge.

Bridge has a menu choice - Camera Raw Preferences - at the bottom is a box that is probably checked for Alway open jpgs in RAW - Uncheck that box.

divamum

pathfinder wrote:

Check your Camera Raw preferences in Bridge.

Bridge has a menu choice - Camera Raw Preferences - at the bottom is a box that is probably checked for Alway open jpgs in RAW - Uncheck that box.

Sorry for stupid question but is bridge in LR or PS? Tx! (also, this doesn't explain why it's only ONE image which is doing this, but I'll hunt around and see if I can find it!)

Scott_Quier

divamum wrote:

Sorry for stupid question but is bridge in LR or PS? Tx! (also, this doesn't explain why it's only ONE image which is doing this, but I'll hunt around and see if I can find it!)

Bridge is a component of the PS package. And, you're right, it wouldn't explain the behavior applying to only one JPG file.

Richard

Scott_Quier wrote:

Bridge is a component of the PS package. And, you're right, it wouldn't explain the behavior applying to only one JPG file.

I was able to get this result by intentionally opening a JPG in Bridge as a RAW file, making some changes with ACR and clicking Done. When I opened it in CS3, it opened in ACR.

So I'm guessing that at some point you opened that file in ACR. BTW, there's no harm done here...just click Open in ACR and CS3 will open the file normally.

EDIT: I don't use LR so I have no way of testing this, but I strongly suspect that editing a JPG in LR would yield the same result. So if you played with the file in LR, CS3 would open it with ACR (which is the used by both programs). Again, no harm done, just click Open in ACR.

pyry

Richard wrote:

EDIT: I don't use LR so I have no way of testing this, but I strongly suspect that editing a JPG in LR would yield the same result. So if you played with the file in LR, CS3 would open it with ACR (which is the used by both programs). Again, no harm done, just click Open in ACR.

I've got LR and yes, you're right.

What's happening is if you run a jpeg through ACR (which is also what LR's develop module runs on), it writes the settings you set into the file as metadata. Then the next time you open the file in PS, it reads the metadata, goes "oh!" and hand the file over to ACR first. It's not destructive, ACR only saves calculation parameters.

divamum

pyry wrote:

I've got LR and yes, you're right.

What's happening is if you run a jpeg through ACR (which is also what LR's develop module runs on), it writes the settings you set into the file as metadata. Then the next time you open the file in PS, it reads the metadata, goes "oh!" and hand the file over to ACR first. It's not destructive, ACR only saves calculation parameters.

That's what I suspected! Thanks for confirming...

Thanks for the sleuthing, guys!