One reason I upgraded to CS4 was that there is no way to open my particular camera's files in earlier versions of ACR. Fine, now I have ACR 5.6 and it will process those files. I had hoped to switch to ACR because it has Lightroom-like editing features but doesn't force the user into a LR-style digital-asset-management paradigm, which I don't want or need.
Well. I open RAW images into a light-table view in Bridge CS4. I make some adjustments in ACR to several of them. I close them without first saving -- I leave the edits saved in XMP files and return to the light-table view.
Then when all that's done, I batch-select the ones I worked on, then select Tools>Photoshop>Image Processor. The image processor dialog opens. I select my various export setings there. I click the Run button.
Photoshop opens, some minimalist activity takes place there (no image showing, so I assume whatever's happening is happening in the background). Eventually the activity stops. TIFF files saved, right?
Wrong. No TIFF file for any image gets written to disk anywhere on my system.
I try it again -- let's see if a different output directory will do the trick. Nope. No image file is saved.
Ok, let's try it with a single image. This time, let's click the Image Processor check-box telling it to open the image first in ACR to apply settings. I don't need to re-do the settings, but let's just try it anyway.
ACR appears for a moment. I click Done. A dialog appears -- a "script alert" saying "Sorry, I could not process the following files:" followed by the one one filename I selected this time. Reason it "could not process"? Not given. (At work, I write script applications -- internal-use-only tools. I didn't even graduate from college, and will wonders never cease, even I can write a better error message than that...)
Ok, let's try it again. This time ACR opens and I click Open Image instead of Done. This time, no error message. Photoshop appears again (and again with work apparently happening in the background). And again -- no image is saved to disk.
Um. Is there some not-entirely-obvious thing that should have been done? What have I left out? Or is it just Bridge being buggy again? (My past experience with Bridge was less than thrilling; lots of bugs.)
CAN a person, in fact, do batch saves to TIFF format via Bridge/ACR?