Need some help with regards to CS4 + Lightroom + RAW

[King Damager]

Right, so here's the thing.

I went back to shooting RAW the other day, only to find out why I'd switched back to JPG in the first place.

So I have CS4, and a Panasonic FZ45.

I'll need to get a full DSLR if I really get into it, but for now the Panasonic does it's job well enough (even if even now I'm starting to find it's limitations).

Now, the problem is as follows:
The Camera Raw Update to support the FZ45 only came in in Camera RAW 6.2 Update.
Camera RAW 6.2 is only compatible with versions of Photoshop later than CS5.

Now, I was planning on getting Lightroom 4 anyway (compatible with Camera RAW 7), which would solve my problem that basically I can't edit any of the photos I shoot in RAW in PS.

But, how would this work if I then wanted to expand my editing to Photoshop?

Basically, I think I still won't be able to edit in Photoshop? :S

Is this the case? Or is there some way around this?

kd

 

[Ginger-Menace]

If you can get it to open in light room you could save it as a tiff to open in ps

 

[King Damager]

If you can get it to open in light room you could save it as a tiff to open in ps

Yeah, have now discovered this thanks Downloaded a trial of Lightroom 4.1 to try it out, but yeah.. Does seem to be like that. Nowhere near quite the same level as adjustments though it seems

kd