Lorie

So... download thousands of images to the disk?

I thought you'd say that. It's the general consensus among those of us who must live by those rules.

I think they trust us to abide by their admonishments. They just want fast, small & however the heck the camera processed it. I don't make the rules... https://www.engadget.com/2015-11-19-reuters-no-longer-accepts-raw-images.html

Confirmed. I'm inching my way back to the upgrade, this class is helping me calm down about the tools on the right side.

Who is imposing this stupid rule?

Who is imposing this stupid rule?

No? I didn't think so. Hence the hostility.

Foolish? I'm just trying to do my job. If you can help me figure out a way to hold onto an aspect-ratio in ACR my life will be golden. Do you have a workaround in ACR 2021?

So do you think this can be resolved if I downgrade Photoshop from 2021 to 2020 or whatever version matches my current Bridge?

Well it looks like I am SOL, then. I can't submit RAW files (we're technically not supposed to USE RAW functionality) but i shoot jpeg/raw and save the RAW files in my NAS drive and send the 5 x 7 jpegs out. If there is no way I can hold onto the aspect ratio in RAW, there is no way I can work through the volume of images I take each week. Maybe I need to f*cking retire. I

I cull from Bridge while the photos are still on the card.

K, it may in fact be the version issue you spoke of. I selected 4 images and Command O DID open them in Camera Raw. So I think it's the jpeg issue which sucks balls because it's the jpegs that have to be cropped to 5 x 7

My workflow is generally to cull from bridge and open the keepers in ACR, not to download all of my images onto my drive. I'll drop these onto my desktop and go from there. Then I'll try the File>Open trick above.

I did a search on Dropbox to find RAW files to see if they would work (I only had jpegs handy, it's mothers day and i'm not at work). I put the RAW files on my desktop and selected them from there. My Bridge doesn't "see" my dropbox I don't have any RAW files on my internal drive. I suppose I could go take a photo or two. Give me a few minutes. Any special place you want me to deposit them?

No... I did a search on my dropbox to find RAW files for this experiment.