Comments on: Elemental Plugin

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Thu, 03 May 2012 10:14:14 +0000

[...] TPG-Elemental Lightroom plugin users: you need this update to take full advantage of the plugin when using these product versions. [...]

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 02:48:22 +0000

@Eric, It is a bit unfortunate but Camera Raw support for PSE9 doesn’t cater for Lightroom 4′s new process version. PSE10 doesn’t yet but I expect that to be resolved as soon as the next Camera Raw version is released.

If you export the images to JPEG this should work but you will need to skip the compatibility check (checkbox in the option panel). The problem is the PV2012 develop settings can’t be processed by PSE without the new Camera Raw. Exporting bakes those into the file so this is no longer a problem.

This issue is impacting a lot of people. I’ll see if I can do something to avoid this manual step.

By: Eric Schurr

Eric Schurr — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 01:19:46 +0000

I’m using LR4 with PSE9 and I just tried to do a photomerge of four RAW files…it says PSE9 is incompatible. Bummer. I love the elemental plug in. Is there any kind of work around? will it work if i convert the RAW files to JPEGS?

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 21:38:08 +0000

Bought LR3 for $116 on Amazon after their chat person said I would be eligible for free LR4 upgrade! (I took a screenshot of that). Looking forward to using LR4 with my PSE10 – courtesy of your plugin. Thanks Matt!

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 21:15:42 +0000

Thanks Matt, you make a good case!

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 20:01:31 +0000

@Jonathan, I fully expect Adobe to release LR4 compatible versions of Camera Raw that work in PSE. While your suggestion is one business model Adobe could take they have shown no indication they would take that “lock in” path. After all we are now at PSE 10 and Camera Raw support has been consistently released since the early days.

At this stage (early March 2012) no LR4 compatible Camera Raw version has been released for PS or PSE. We just need to be a little more patient. Whether you hold off on the purchase or not is your call, but the reasoning described here for waiting doesn’t seem to stack up.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 12:16:14 +0000

Then it would seem I had better stick to my Corel AfterShot, though maybe experiment with the LR3 trial that came in the PSE10 box. Adobe might not make the Camera Raw for PSE10 match the version for LR4 – it would stop people from going the “cheap” route with PSE using your plugin. I will never be able to afford the full PhotoShop. So I’ll hold off on an LR4 purchase until I see you indicate that the PV2012 is now in PSE10. Am I misunderstanding? Adobe has no financial incentive in updating the PSE part, and every financial incentive to “forcing” the full PhotoShop. Corel AfterShot is nice too.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 13:35:58 +0000

@Jonathan, Elemental works with LR4 and PSE 10. In fact I’ve just recently had reports indicating that it works when many other methods for opening in external editors don’t. The caveat is that LR4′s PV2012 isn’t supported by PSE10 yet so a new photo imported into LR4, edited using PV2012 and opened in PSE10 will look different between the two programs. We will need to wait for a Camera Raw update for PSE10 before the PSE10 and LR4 will be 100% compatible. Photos using the older process version should work fine though.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:46:53 +0000

Matt, I hear that when LR4 went final, some plugins, and the launching of PSE10, no longer worked. I bought elements/premier 10 and will purchase LR4 soon … what is the status of Elemental plugin compatibility with these – with the final LR4? I did purchase your plugin last night, assuming you would update it. But I am not going to install Elements, LR4, or your plugin until I clean up a few things in my photo folders – and you say it is good to go. Thanks.

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 07:29:23 +0000

@Matthew, Sorry to hear you have encountered an issue with the plugin. Haven’t heard any reports of this before. Can you please confirm what version of Lightroom and platform you are using? And it sound like you have the “automatically write to XMP” option set for this catalog. Correct? If so this might be a case of two Lightroom tasks trying to write the XMP at the same time.