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May 1, 2024
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Recover my Raw photo from the image already edited in photoshop 2024

  • May 1, 2024
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I did a photo session but I didn't download the raw photos and I was left with only the PSD files and I need to recover the raw photos.  Please help

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Correct answer r-bin
Perhaps you have a smart object layer in your PSD with your RAW file. Then it is enough to export the contents for the smart object.
 

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Stephen Marsh
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June 3, 2024

A related topic which might help:

 

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/how-to-revert-smart-object-to-raw-nef/td-p/14657356

 

EDIT: I can now see that this is exactly what @r-bin was suggesting! I have marked this reply as a correct answer, it's better than my DNG suggestion as it retains the original proprietary raw file format.

Stephen Marsh
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May 2, 2024

@Gabriela37112893e9lk 

 

Your post is a little unclear, which is why you received two very different answers!

 

@D Fosse is correct, if you rendered the raw without using a smart object from ACR, then the raw sensor data is irretrievably lost.

 

@r-bin is also correct, if you did "open as object" from ACR into Photoshop, then you have the original raw sensor data embedded. Just double-click the smart object layer to re-open the embedded copy of the original raw file. Here is an example of saving the embedded smart object raw data to DNG. The original file was an ORF but we can only re-save it as a DNG. There is an option to include the original raw file (ORF) in the DNG, however, I'm not sure if it's possible to extract the ORF from the DNG (those who live and breath raw editing probably know, I only play):

 

r-binCorrect answer
Legend
May 1, 2024
Perhaps you have a smart object layer in your PSD with your RAW file. Then it is enough to export the contents for the smart object.
 
D Fosse
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May 1, 2024

Not possible, just as you can't retrieve the eggs from a cake. It's the second law of thermodynamics... 🙂