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Opening raw images as Smart Objects - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop 2024 Essential Training
Opening raw images as Smart Objects
- [Instructor] If you're working with raw files, instead of opening the image into Photoshop and then converting it to a smart object, you can choose to open the raw file into Photoshop as a smart object. This will enable you to access all of the raw data if you want to make changes to the image. So from Bridge, I'm going to select the sand dollar and the wall texture, and I will open these two images in camera raw. I want to make some changes to the sand dollar image. I'm going to increase the whites quite significantly and then just decrease the blacks a little bit. I'll want to select both of the images. So I'll hold down the command key on Mac, control key on Windows and select the wall texture. And then instead of simply opening the files, I'm going to open them as objects that's going to open both of these as smart objects in their own separate documents. We can see we have the wall texture smart object, as well as the…
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