Step Back after using the straighten tool

My work flow ends with the straighten tool, but sometimes I'm not happy with what I've done. Thank God this does not happen often, but when it does I have had to go back to start with my PP in ACR. HELP, HELP, HELP

I'm afraid that is how it works. Once you have opened the image in Photoshop you are no longer doing anything with the original raw file. You have loaded the pixels from that file into Photoshop, but they are the pixels that have been modified by the metadata.
But you should only have to return to ACR to change the strengthening, unless you have done a lot of additional editing in Photoshop. Perhaps it would be better to do the straightening as a first step in Photoshop.
I don't know about you, but since I have been using ACR 4.1 I find that I can do a lot more in ACR and considerably less in Photoshop.

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