I don’t think you are missing anything.
A lot of people are amazed that Adobe doesn’t provide the ability to translate user data between Adobe applications.
Phooey. I felt I had reached the point with PSE that I might be able to take advantage of the increased functionality of CS, but if I have to reorganize all my pictures and give up things like version sets, I’m not sure it’s worth it. I’ll stick with PSE and the Bibble plugin for raw processing.
Thanks for the information.
FYI,
You don’t have to use Bridge. The PSE Organizer will let you use Photoshop to do the image editing and you will keep your Organizer functionality. I have both PSE and Photoshop and Organizer works quite well with it. If Photoshop is installed, right click on an image in the organizer and it will have an option to edit in Photoshop. There is also a keyboard shortcut for both the PSE editor and the Photoshop editor. You can also set the Organizer preferences to use another photo editor if you have one.
I was going to edit my previous post, but I missed the time limit.
I’m not sure how Organizer is obtaining the thumbnails for the raw images. If Organizer doesn’t use ACR to get the Thumbnail, there is no issue. With ACR 3.x, PSE used the exact same plugin as Photoshop (the plugin recognizes PSE and limits the features exposed to the PSE editor). ACR 4.x probably isn’t supported in the current PSE. That shouldn’t be a problem until Adobe stops updating ACR 3.x and even then only with the newer cameras that only have support in ACR 4.x. There’s always the convert to DNG option there. I expect future PSE releases will use ACR 4.x.
I switched over to Photoshop and Bridge completely a long time ago and left PSE installed for the family to use. But, I can understand why you would want to retain the Organizer functionality.
Thanks for the suggestions. In PSE Organizer I right clicked an image and selected edit with Photoshop, and sure enough it opened the image in CS3–it even opened it in the raw processor before handing it off to CS3. CS3 told me I was welcome to use the trial edition until May ’07, then changed its mind, decided my two day tryout was over and quit on me.
However, a friend with PSE and CS2 let me try the procedure on his computer. His version of the raw processor doesn’t handle my flavor of raw images (needs updating, I suppose) but I could hand off a jpeg from Organizer to CS2. When I closed the image in CS2, it got sent back to Organizer and added to the version stack in the Organizer catalog.
This is what I need to do, I guess, to get the benefits of CS editing and also the benefits of PSE Organizer. It seems incredible to me that Bridge is a crappier organizer than, and not upward compatible with, PSE Organizer, but Adobe is Adobe, I guess–the only Adobe product I’ve ever used that didn’t make me feel frustrated and stupid is Acrobat Reader.
Sorry for the rant. Many thanks for telling me how to do what I needed to do.
