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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Adobe Camera Raw Q&A => Topic started by: mdijb on April 10, 2012, 11:21:23 pm

Title: Send image from CS5 to Bridge and return
Post by: mdijb on April 10, 2012, 11:21:23 pm

I can send an image from LR to CS5, do some edits and then bring back mage into LR.

How do I do the reverse with bridge.

I have a layered image in CS5 and want to send to Bridge to use the Camera raw sliders and brush tools, and the bring the image layer back into CS5.

How can I do this

MDIJB

Title: Re: Send image from CS5 to Bridge and return
Post by: Redcrown on April 12, 2012, 02:13:52 am

One way requires you to flatten the file, save it, go to Bridge and "Open in Camera Raw". Camera Raw can not handle a layered file.

But Russell Brown invented a new way. Go to his scripts page here: http://russellbrown.com/scripts.html

and look for "Edit Layers in ACR..."

Title: Re: Send image from CS5 to Bridge and return
Post by: Ben Rubinstein on April 12, 2012, 08:15:27 am

You can open an image from ACR as a smart object into PS but once you've put layers on it you can only send the smart object layer back to ACR for editing as far as I understand.

Title: Re: Send image from CS5 to Bridge and return
Post by: Schewe on April 12, 2012, 01:23:03 pm

Quote from: mdijb on April 10, 2012, 11:21:23 pm

I have a layered image in CS5 and want to send to Bridge to use the Camera raw sliders and brush tools, and the bring the image layer back into CS5.

You can't...Camera Raw can only open flattened JPEG & TIFF files. If you save off one of those layers as a flattened TIFF you could then open in ACR, adjust and then re-instert that file as a layer back in the layered file but that seems like a lot of work for little gain.

Title: Re: Send image from CS5 to Bridge and return
Post by: mdijb on April 14, 2012, 12:22:27 pm

To Redcrown

Thanks for the link above--the script works perfectly--hope it will work in CS6 when released.

MDIJB