smart object in photoshop when double-clicked now opens in Camera Raw and not as a new tab in PS

[barryd90432548]

I have always been able to double-click a smart object in the layers panel of PS and have it open as a new tab in PS....now it opens in Camera Raw? How do I get it to work like it did?

 

[D Fosse · Accepted solution]

The smart object is a raw file from a camera, so ACR is what it has to open in. Photoshop can't open raw files directly; only through ACR

Smart objects always open in their parent application. If the smart object was a vector file from Illustrator, it would reopen in Illustrator.

In other words, everything normal here.

[barryd90432548]

I appreciate the feedback, however I have been able to open a smart object from a layer in PS into a new tab in PS for as long as I can remember... this is something new, perhaps a bug, I don't know.

[D Fosse]

 I have been able to open a smart object from a layer in PS into a new tab in PS for as long as I can remember

By @barryd90432548

Yes, but those weren't raw files. Look at the title bar in the ACR window: it's a .NEF from a Nikon D7100.

[barryd90432548]

I think I found the issue.... the image I originally opened was a NEF file and when I tried it with a JPG.... everything worked fine....UGH!  Appreciate your help!

[Sameer K]

Yep! Agreed with what @D Fosse said. This is pretty normal & by design.

When you open a RAW image in Photoshop, Camera Raw opens up; here, you can click on Open to open the image as a regular background layer & the other way is to press & hold the Shift key to reveal 'Open Object' which opens the image as Smart Object.

So, use Open instead of Open Object & then manually convert the image to a smart object from the Filter Menu.

Let us know how it goes. Thanks!
Sameer K

[barryd90432548]

Thank you....go it figured out now 🙂

[DTdeWaal]

I have similar issue, it works as expected when I use Open from CR & then manually convert the image to a smart object from the Filter Menu, but why doesn't it work the same way when you Open as object from CR? 

[c.pfaffenbichler]

 but why doesn't it work the same way when you Open as object from CR? 

Because you chose to do that by choosing to »Opes as Object« – that is the way to maintain the RAW data within a Photoshop file and this can be hugely useful. 

If you don’t want it use »Open« or »Open as Copy« instead. 

Edit: You could also convert the ACR Smart Object to a Smart Object.