P: Add "Open as Layers in Photoshop" option

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August 26, 2020
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Add "Open as Layers in Photoshop" option to ACR (like in Lightroom).

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I just voted as well. Here it is, February of 2023, and still no ability to "Open as Layers in Photoshop" directly from ACR. That makes absolutely ZERO sense.

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digglescreative

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PECourtejoie

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Voted

TheDigitalDog

Inspiring

See:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/open-as-layers-in-ps-from-acr/td-p/11389167

Over there, they never made this a feature request as you did. You might want to post in that thread that you've opened an actual feature request here and get them to vote on this (which is key)! I have upvoted; I see no reason why this shouldn't be doable like LR unless engineering can tell us why.

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jluc2219

Inspiring

Hello
How to open photos from Camera raw as layers in Photoshop. There is this possibility under Lr and Bridge but I would like to do it from ACR. Otherwise I go through the stack after opening them in Ps. Is there another faster method?
Thank you in advance for your answers.

JJMack

Community Expert

I do not install Lightroom for it does not support layered image files. Photoshop does not have support for RAW files but will Open RAW file by using its Plug-in ACR which will convert the Camera RAW Mosaic data into and RGB image which can be open as a normal Photoshop document with a Raster image layer or opened as a smart object layer with a Camera RAW object. Even Raw File pass to Photoshop by Lightroom are opened through Photoshop Plug-in ACR for Photoshop does not support RAW files. ACR can use Lightroom's recorded conversion settings for ACR and Lightroom use the same Adobe RAW conversion engine.

JJMack

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