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 04/06/2013 02:20:22 PM · #1
i just updated lightroom to 4.4, but now i get a message that i need ACR 7.4, but from what i can tell its only available for CS6.

what do i need to do here? i really don't need ACR 7.4 as i don't need the new camera support. except LR is telling me i need it. do i just ignore the message when opening from LR or can i force the update somehow using CS5...?

04/06/2013 03:26:41 PM · #2
I have the same software. Are you talking about the message when you go to edit a NEF file in PS where it says "This version of Lightroom may require the Photoshop Camera Raw plug-in version 7.4 for full compatibility?" If you click the "Render using Lightroom" button, it will turn it into a psd file before it gets to PS, and all will be well.
 04/06/2013 03:41:26 PM · #3
yes, that's the message, thanks.

i have also been having this problem:

i edit a file and realize i want to make some fixes to the file, i dont want to do the edits from this point, since i want to be able to back off any settings or adjust my crop later so i create a virtual copy with my current edits and then back off all my edits on the original file, go into photoshop, make the changes and then go back to lightroom. i copy the adjustments for the virtual copy and paste them onto the update tif. the two look nothing alike, even though the settings are identical. whats worse is the crop doesn't even copied properly, its often way out of place, even though the files are the exact same size.

this used to work for me and im not sure at what point it broke. in fact sometimes it does work, which is why i keep trying to do it..

any ideas?

04/06/2013 05:30:45 PM · #4
Originally posted by Ann:
I have the same software. Are you talking about the message when you go to edit a NEF file in PS where it says "This version of Lightroom may require the Photoshop Camera Raw plug-in version 7.4 for full compatibility?" If you click the "Render using Lightroom" button, it will turn it into a psd file before it gets to PS, and all will be well.


Why would you open in ACR, render to PSD for Lightroom, then edit in Photoshop?

If you have LR, why not just import there then edit in Photoshop? It seems like extra work to do it the first way.
 04/06/2013 06:08:36 PM · #5
That's what I I do, open in LR then edit in PS as required.. Lr 4.4 is now saying it needs ACR 7.4.
 04/06/2013 06:09:09 PM · #6
Originally posted by alohadave:
Originally posted by Ann:
I have the same software. Are you talking about the message when you go to edit a NEF file in PS where it says "This version of Lightroom may require the Photoshop Camera Raw plug-in version 7.4 for full compatibility?" If you click the "Render using Lightroom" button, it will turn it into a psd file before it gets to PS, and all will be well.


Why would you open in ACR, render to PSD for Lightroom, then edit in Photoshop?

If you have LR, why not just import there then edit in Photoshop? It seems like extra work to do it the first way.


That's what he's trying to when he gets the message.

The problem that he's trying to solve is that he has the current version of Lightroom, but an older version of PS. He makes the Lightroom adjustments, then goes to edit in PS, and gets the message then. Given the timing and content of the message, I think that LR is recognizing that it's talking to an older version of PS, and is asking whether it should try to do the psd conversion using Lightroom or the older version of PS. If the versions are both current, or both old, you don't get that message.
 04/06/2013 06:22:42 PM · #7
Originally posted by mike_311:
yes, that's the message, thanks.

i have also been having this problem:

i edit a file and realize i want to make some fixes to the file, i dont want to do the edits from this point, since i want to be able to back off any settings or adjust my crop later so i create a virtual copy with my current edits and then back off all my edits on the original file, go into photoshop, make the changes and then go back to lightroom. i copy the adjustments for the virtual copy and paste them onto the update tif. the two look nothing alike, even though the settings are identical. whats worse is the crop doesn't even copied properly, its often way out of place, even though the files are the exact same size.

this used to work for me and im not sure at what point it broke. in fact sometimes it does work, which is why i keep trying to do it..

any ideas?


I don't know how it used to work because I've never tried to do that before, but I just tried doing this, and it doesn't work for me either. I'd say you found a bug.

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