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Open a raw file as a Smart Object

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Open a raw file as a Smart Object

- [Instructor] If you're starting with a RAW file, then ideally noise reduction should be addressed as part of your initial RAW processing of the image, whether that takes place in Adobe Camera RAW, or in Lightroom Classic. But what if you want to revisit the corrections that you made to the RAW file once you've moved into Photoshop? Fortunately there is a workflow for that. Let's take a closer look. So here in the Camera RAW dialogue I have the same image of the Irish dancer that we've used before, and if we check the detail tab, you can see that I've already applied some luminance noise reduction. So I'm just going to click done, which will apply those settings and close the RAW file, and if I come back over here to Adobe Bridge, let's now explore some of the ways that we can open this file into Photoshop in a way that preserves the Camera RAW settings so that we can access them and edit them directly from within…

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