How to open an xmp file in Photoshop, so that I can convert them to JPEG

[Chris261209186dn9]

Hi all, 

I am not too experienced with Photoshop, I originally edited some raw photos about a week ago through the camera raw feature in photoshop. A day later, I noticed that the photos I edited saved as an XMP file. I can't seem to open this file. I just want to reopen and convert into JPEGS. I tried downloading camera raw and I still can't seem to open these files. Not quite sure what to do, this seems like a simple fix but I am stumped. 

Thanks!

[Stephen Marsh]

XMP files are simply text based instructions, not image files. Adobe treats proprietary raw files as read only.

DNG format can contain the editing instructions as part of the same file without requiring a separate XMP sidecar file.

When you open the raw file, ACR looks for an XMP file with a matching name in the same folder and uses that to show the "edits" and you then output a JPEG from within ACR or open into Photoshop and save from there.

Here's an example of saving one or more raw files as a batch directly from ACR as JPEG – without opening into Photoshop.