Export from LRC to PS: When I export RAW photos from Lightroom Classic to Photoshop the photo opens in PS not in ACR. That in its self would not be a problem except when I use ACR...

Curmudgeon Loc: SE Arizona

When I export RAW photos from Lightroom Classic to Photoshop the photo opens in PS not in ACR. That in its self would not be a problem except when I use ACR filter in PS I am no longer allowed to change WB. Anybody know of a fix for this?

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

Curmudgeon wrote:

When I export RAW photos from Lightroom Classic to Photoshop the photo opens in PS not in ACR. That in its self would not be a problem except when I use ACR filter in PS I am no longer allowed to change WB. Anybody know of a fix for this?

Adjust the WB in LR before passing the image to PS. Note that you can pass a PSD, DNG or TIFF to PS (or JPEG), not a RAW file. You can pass the files with or without the LR edits, but neither RAW as a format nor ARC as a target are available for the external editor definitions from LR.

DWU2 Loc: Phoenix Arizona area

You can invoke the Camera Raw filter from Filter > Camera Raw, or Shift-Ctrl-A.

Ysarex Loc: St. Louis

Curmudgeon wrote:

When I export RAW photos from Lightroom Classic to Photoshop the photo opens in PS not in ACR. That in its self would not be a problem except when I use ACR filter in PS I am no longer allowed to change WB. Anybody know of a fix for this?

From the Photo menu in LR select Edit In and then select Open as Smart Object in PS. You'll get your photo in PS and still be able to click on the Smart Object layer which will open ACR and allow you to change raw WB.

IDguy Loc: Idaho

Why open in ACR from Lightroom? Lightroom does everything ACR does, bit more user friendly.

Rongnongno Loc: FL

Curmudgeon wrote:

When I export RAW photos from Lightroom Classic to Photoshop the photo opens in PS not in ACR. That in its self would not be a problem except when I use ACR filter in PS I am no longer allowed to change WB. Anybody know of a fix for this?

I checked and the limitation is within the filter itself. There are other limitations as well.

rgrenaderphoto Loc: Hollywood, CA

IDguy wrote:

Why open in ACR from Lightroom? Lightroom does everything ACR does, bit more user friendly.

Habit, I suspect.

Curmudgeon Loc: SE Arizona

CHG_CANON wrote:

Adjust the WB in LR before passing the image to PS. Note that you can pass a PSD, DNG or TIFF to PS (or JPEG), not a RAW file. You can pass the files with or without the LR edits, but neither RAW as a format nor ARC as a target are available for the external editor definitions from LR.

Thanks for responding. Yes I can, and do,when I remember. Additionally it's an extra step since I don't do any other processing in LR.

Curmudgeon Loc: SE Arizona

Ysarex wrote:

From the Photo menu in LR select Edit In and then select Open as Smart Object in PS. You'll get your photo in PS and still be able to click on the Smart Object layer which will open ACR and allow you to change raw WB.

Tried that it gives ONLY three choices As Shot, Auto and Custom.

Curmudgeon Loc: SE Arizona

IDguy wrote:

Why open in ACR from Lightroom? Lightroom does everything ACR does, bit more user friendly.

Because I have been using PS since release 2 or 3 and I am comfortable there. People who are afraid of PS should stick with LR

Curmudgeon Loc: SE Arizona

Rongnongno wrote:

I checked and the limitation is within the filter itself. There are other limitations as well.

Thanks. I kind of figured it was something that would be unresolvable.

Curmudgeon Loc: SE Arizona

rgrenaderphoto wrote:

Habit, I suspect.

I'm glad you understand

Ysarex Loc: St. Louis

Curmudgeon wrote:

Tried that it gives ONLY three choices As Shot, Auto and Custom.

Not if you're using anything close to a current version of PS. See illustration below.

I opened LR and selected a photo. From the Photo menu I selected Edit In and from the submenu I selected Open Smart Object in PS.

Once in PS I dlb clicked on the Smart Object to access ACR which opened and gave me the WB options you see below.

Curmudgeon Loc: SE Arizona

Thank you, Ysarex finally an answer. It's still an extra step but maybe one I can live with

Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)

Curmudgeon wrote:

When I export RAW photos from Lightroom Classic to Photoshop the photo opens in PS not in ACR. That in its self would not be a problem except when I use ACR filter in PS I am no longer allowed to change WB. Anybody know of a fix for this?

When you export or use an external editor from Lightroom, the edits you've performed in LR become hard-coded in the form of a raster image, with a single layer. At this point you can use all the tools in PS including the white and tint sliders, though they don't work exactly the same way.

If you have opted to write metadata changes to xmp, then there is nothing stopping you from opening that raw file with its corresponding edits in the xmp file directly from Bridge or your file browser and being a raw file it will open in ACR.

The suggested workflow if you use both - would be to do all of your heavy lifting in LR - white balance, tonal balance, HSL, noise reduction, perspective transformation, applying lens profiles etc etc etc - then use "Edit In' to open a raster file version (psd or tiff) in Photoshop. There is no reason to open the raw file in ACR, since there is nothing you can do there that couldn't be done in Lightroom's Develop module.

Then there is the smart object method that also gives you what you are looking for that Ysarex suggested.