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You realize that you can use Smart Objects via Edit in Photoshop?

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tonylong wrote in post #11638768
You realize that you can use Smart Objects via Edit in Photoshop?

ONLY if you have the current edition of Photoshop.

tonylong wrote in post #11638768
You realize that you can use Smart Objects via Edit in Photoshop?

philmar wrote in post #15464195
ONLY if you have the current edition of Photoshop.

Actually you can open from LR4 to CS5 as a Smart Object, but to do this you need to have a special update to Camera Raw, to version 6.7.0.339 -- it's a special download (not an automatic update).

Doing that also "solves" some other issues with the Edit in Photoshop into CS5! It was cool to find out about it!

Tony thanks for mentioning the Smart Objects with ACR 6.7.0.339. It is the version that I have along with LR4.1. When I had tried the edit as Smart object in the past I had seen the request to change to Process 2010 from the later P2012 and had thought that the process needed to be changed to make any changes, not just the changes to the Tones controls, which of course differ across those two process versions. I guess that I had better start reading up on smart objects, smart filters and all the things that go with them. I just loaded an image as a smart object across, did a B+W conversion in ACR, applied selective High Pass sharpening in PS. It all looks great, hit save and the image is back in LR just like it should be. Lots of learning to be done.

Thanks

Alan