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Inspiring
May 16, 2018
Question

smart object not saving black and white setting

PS 19.1.4 / ACR 10.3.0.9.33 running on iMac High Sierra 10.13.4 with 32 gb

I am editing images I created just a month ago with  PS 19.1.3 / ACR 10.3.0.9.33 which still created settings files of about 3kb. The XMP file shows:

   crs:ConvertToGrayscale="True"

   crs:ToneCurveName2012="Linear"

   crs:CameraProfile="Adobe Standard"

In PS when I edit the PSD file smart object and go back into ACR, the black and white image is in color with settings of Color / Adobe Color. When I click on the Black & White radio button the profile changes to Adobe Monochrome which has 4-6 points lighter tonality than the original image which is significant when doing b&w. I have to manually reload the XMP file that I had saved from the initial edit to get the right tonality and the setting Black & White / Adobe Standard B&W.

Why isn't ACR correctly reading the original XMP settings stored in the PSD file's Smart Object?

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c.pfaffenbichler
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 17, 2018

Could you please post a screenshot taken of the file in Photoshop at View > 100% and with the pertinent Panels (Layers, Channels, Options Bar, …) visible?

Inspiring
May 17, 2018

This is the saved original from a prior editing session (Version=10.0 / Process Version=10.0) in PS:

When I double click on the smart object to edit it further, the color version and not B&W shows:

c.pfaffenbichler
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 17, 2018

Well, those screenshots are clipped to be fairly close to useless, but according to the Smart Object’s icon in the Photoshop Layers Panel that’s an embedded Smart Object so it has no connection to an external file and what is open in Lightroom I can’t tell.

Edit: Sorry, I had misunderstood the issue … but the screenshots should still include all pertinent elements.

Inspiring
May 17, 2018

Correction: the versions of ACR (and corresponding PS) where the XMP settings are not being read are version 10.0 / process version 10.0 and any and all earlier versions.