Returning to ACR for noise reduction, while in Photoshop

Is there a shortcut  back to noise reduction in ACR ~  while working on an image in Photoshop?
Of course if it's opened as a smart object you can return to raw but there are heaps of things you can't do to a smart object...
The onlty way I can think of is to save and close the file and then open it (again) in RAW. And that's a bit of a round about way to do it.

NanceeArt wrote:
The onlty way I can think of is to save and close the file and then open it (again) in RAW. And that's a bit of a round about way to do it.
That's the only way and also note that going noise reduction on a rendered image vs a raw image is suboptimal...you really want to be doing the noise reduction BEFORE you render the file. A raw Smart Object would be useful in this situation.

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