Can I reopen a Photoshop layer in Camera Raw for editing?
Asked 6/21/2011
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I edited a JPEG in Photoshop and later noticed added noise in the sky after increasing saturation. I know Camera Raw's luminance noise reduction could help, but my workaround was to save the image as a JPEG, reopen it through Adobe Camera Raw, apply noise reduction, and then replace part of the older PSD to keep detail in the monument.
Is there a way to send an individual Photoshop layer directly to Camera Raw for further processing, or reopen a layer in Camera Raw after the fact?
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After you make your adjustments in ACR, press Shift and then instead of Open Image, you'll see Open Object. That will create the layer as a smart object and you can then go back to ACR from that smart object layer. I believe you'd have to have known to do that from the start. I'm not aware of anyway to reopen a layer in ACR after the fact if you haven't opened it as a smart object.
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Yes, but usually only if you set it up as a Smart Object when opening the file from Camera Raw.
In ACR, hold Shift and the Open Image button changes to Open Object. Opening this way creates a Smart Object layer in Photoshop. You can then reopen that layer in Camera Raw and adjust it non-destructively.
If the layer was not originally opened as a Smart Object from ACR, the community answer indicates there isn’t a direct way to reopen that existing layer in Camera Raw afterward. In that case, your workaround of reopening/exporting and reprocessing is essentially the alternative.
So the key is: if you think you may want to return to Camera Raw later, open the file from ACR as a Smart Object from the start.
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