Comments on: Lightroom 2 and the Seven Point System

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:22:33 +0000

Hi!

I am using CS2 and I was wondering why the smart object option is grayed out on my machine. I saw you got this question a few times but I can’t find your responses to the questions…

Thanks for your help!

By: Danny

Danny — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:55:23 +0000

Is this incompatible with Photoshop CS2? The Smart Object option is grayed out on my machine. I’m using LR2 with PS CS2.

By: Billy Halsey

Billy Halsey — Sun, 04 May 2008 20:23:51 +0000

Thanks to both Scott and Bill Chinn — it didn’t appear in my “Edit in Photoshop” either. So without Bill’s tip, I would have been bruising my forehead indeed!

By: Bill Chinn

Bill Chinn — Fri, 02 May 2008 18:04:13 +0000

On my PC, if you go under Lightroom 2.0â€™s Photo menu, under Edit in Adobe Photoshop CS3, “Open as Smart Object in Photoshop” is NOT an option. It is there when you right click on the image itself. Just in case anyone else bruised there forehead on the keyboard like I did.

By: Toby Fairchild

Toby Fairchild — Fri, 02 May 2008 13:15:47 +0000

Regarding my prior post, I just read the release notes pdf from adobe labs and they say that its a known issue that “Opening in Photoshop CS3 as a smart object will not save the file back into Lightroom automatically.” This kinda illustrates my point that this feature, until rectified, renders the whole smart object opening in photoshop useless. You still have to manually save out another separate file from within photoshop, then import that into your lightroom library, thus giving you another physical file….youre right back where you started from in v1.4.

By: Toby Fairchild

Toby Fairchild — Fri, 02 May 2008 13:07:31 +0000

I have been wondering why everyone is so gung-ho over opening LR images as smart objects in beta 2.0. The main reason, from what I understand, is that you eliminate having to make a tiff copy and that you can tweak images further in camera raw like LR’s develop module. Once you are done, the image saves back in to lightroom. One problem, though. LR 2.0 beta DOES NOT automatically save the PS image back to lightroom. I have to save it using photoshop…which to me defeats the whole purpose of “integration”. Maybe this will not be the case in the shipping verison, but until this fix happens, I could care less about opening images as ’smart objects’.

By: Todd

Todd — Fri, 02 May 2008 12:35:37 +0000

Unless Adobe ups the ante when it comes to sharpening in Lightroom, this will be the perfect way to zip on over to Photoshop to use USM or Noise Ninja and zip on back to Lightroom. That makes me happy.

By: Jacob Polatin

Jacob Polatin — Fri, 02 May 2008 12:11:49 +0000

Using an Apple, I found that “Open as a smart object” was greyed out if I used the edit menu. I had to right click to get the opion. I certainly enjoy all of your books.

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By: Mike Lao

Mike Lao — Fri, 02 May 2008 08:20:13 +0000

hey scott,

thanks for this! my take with the 7 point system and LR2 is it actually changes the whole part of the shadow/highlight controls. I sometimes don’t have to go to Photoshop because the retouch brush is already in LR2. However, in a few of my experiments, the shadow/highlight has a better overall effect on the photo.

mike

By: Seim Effects

Seim Effects — Fri, 02 May 2008 07:52:40 +0000

I’m going to have to try the smart objects from LR.

Even in other areas like PSD and Tiff I feel that the integration is tighter, and moving into PS is simple.

One thing I notice however in LR2 is that when I open in PS as say a PSD, it will stack the two file together but it does not apply the same rating to the new like it dies in LR 1. I’ve been trying to find an option to turn that back on but so far no luck.

Maybe it’s just right in front of me and I’m missing it… Gavin