Unable to open Smart Objects

Hi, everytime I try opening smart objects I recieve the following error:
'Could not edit original smart object because of a program error'
Installed CC yesterday, working on a mac osx 10.9.2
Can't seem to find any resolve through the forums, any help would be appreciated?

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How to open smart object in camera raw

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As the subject line reads, I'm having trouble opening a smart object in camera raw. Every tutorial I read or watch says, "double click on your smart object thumbnail to open the image in camera raw." But every time I do, all it does is open a copy of the image as a .psb file.
Before you ask,
-The images I work with are stock images, JPG's.
-I've tried to find an option in Photoshop > Preferences that will let me open smart objects in camera raw all the time;
-I've tried opening these files directly in camera raw. When I do, there's a little link below the image that reads something like,
Adobe RGB (1998); 8 bit; 2008 by 3000 (6.0 MP); 240 ppi
I click on it, and there's a 'click box for "open in Photoshop as smart objects"; clicking this will allow me to open the image in Camera Raw upon double clicking on the thumbnail. But it will only work that way for that one instance of that one image.
Anyway to make this happen?
Thanks,
KP

What is the .extension after your filename on this file? Needs to be .jpg, .tif or .psd. Then choose open, and change format to Camera raw.
If you are saving as .jpg, the smart object has been bitmapped, and is a no longer smart object.

Illustrator Application Window Resizes When Opening Smart Object from PSD

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I just want to point out that when you open the smart object of course it is not the same file as the original but an embedded copy of it.
That might also have something to do with this issue and might also be a photoshop issue with the smart object and one reason might be that Photoshop is see the image as resolution and Illustrator sees it as a dimension and the teams might be able to do something about this but might not actually be aware of it unless you file a report even if it is not a bug it would then be a feature request.
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Lightroom 4 - Open Smart Object in Photoshop (or rather do not!)

Opening a PV2012 image as a smart object into Photoshop works ... except that all Lightroom adjustments are ignored.
No doubt this will be fixed when Adobe releases Photoshop CS6 and ACR 7.0 ... but that the latest version of Lightroom does not work properly with the latest release of Photoshop is nothing short of dreadful.
(Pretty smart marketing though, cause every time I upgrade Lightroom I also have to upgrade Photoshop! I for one will be waiting to see if Adobe have the decency to release ACR 7.0 to run on CS5 ... and if not then my decision will be based on how good CS6 is as I do not see that LR4 has anything that I can't do with some plug-ins (like geoencoding and reverse geoencoding). Of course if you want to write a book or do some trivial video editing then maybe LR4 will appeal to you.)
Very disappointing, when you consider that new cameras now have features like built-in HDR processing and Lightroom does not even have this - so that Photoshop or third-party software is required.

Jeff Schewe: Yes, Jeff, I'm well aware of that, having had to buy multiple versions of Lightroom and Photoshop, right up to LR4 and CS5.
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What Adobe have done is simply to grey-out these sliders: not because they would not work, but because if they had not greyed them out then they would be giving free additional functionality to CS5 users.
HOWEVER ... as I have purchased LR4 which supports PV2012 (and therefore has the full Camera Raw support for PV2012) I should NOT have to buy Photoshop CS6 just in order to get ACR 7.0. Adobe needs to find a way around this - and it would seem fairly simple to me for Photoshop to use the Lightroom raw engine if both Photoshop and Lightroom are present on the same machine (this is not rocket science). This would mean that we would not need to use Camera Raw at all: the raw processing functionality would be provided by Lightroom.
Alternatively, Adobe could release a version of Camera Raw 7.0 (say ACR-LR4-7.0) that would only work if Lightroom 4 was also present. Again this is not rocket science.
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Opening Smart Objects with AppleScript. How do I open the inner PSD with applescript with a smart object?

I have a PSD or a PSB. I need to be able to open all of the smart objects in the file so that i can get to the inner psd files so i can pull data from those. Is this possible? If not it definitely should be. Thank you very much. I am on a mac and will be using applescript.

You will NOT be able to do this directly with the model exposed to the AppleScript Dictionary…
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You can record this by using the scriptlistener plug-in…
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Save new camera raw defaults for already opened smart objects.

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My problem is that if during editing in Photoshop I adjust again some parameters reopening the photo in Camera Raw, there's no way I can save the new adjustments for the next time I want to open the raw again.
I happened to me I changed a lot of parameters and I wanted to have them as defaults for that photo.
Quite simply: if I I want to save new Camera Raw edits as defaults for that photo, how can I do?
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Thanks for your answer. Actually inserting the photo as a linked object does what I want, but it's awkward, slow and not so immediate. Also I have to open the photo from the beginning like that, as a new layer.
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ACR 4.6 always opens "smart" objects ...

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>Any idea's where this is set or reset ?
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I have one tricky case with Windows Job objects:
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However, process A is closed and launched again. It calls OpenProcess to retrieve handle to the B. Now is the tricky part:
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Now, as conclusion: job object still exists, I can't assign process B to a new job object (logical, as B might have launched child processes while A was not up and running) and I can't access old job object.
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Thank you for a quick reply!
Unfortunately, I have to support any customers using Windows XP and newer systems.
I guess, you are referring to this line in msdn: If the process is already associated with a job, the job specified by hJob must be empty or... I guess it means, that if I pass hJob=null and valid hProcess, then it associates it back? Interestingly
enough, hJob is not marked as "optional".
Regarding copying handle into B: I was thinking about it. Problem is that B is a third party process (A is kind of governor that runs stuff on regular basis according to a schedule). With DuplicateObject would I need to create B with 'inherit handles' option?
Also, I would then have to pass handle form B to A somehow.
Also, I see there's a function SetHandleInformation. And it can set an option "
HANDLE_FLAG_PROTECT_FROM_CLOSE
0x00000002
If this flag is set, calling the
CloseHandle function will not close the object handle.
I guess that would mean that if process A dies, it wouldn't close handle to Job1 and it would still be in the ObjectManager? Need to try this.

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I apologize if this has been addressed already, but I am looking for a way to open Smart Objects as LAYERS. I do compositing work and would like to retain as much information as possible by using Smart Objects PRIOR to going into Photoshop. My current workflow is to highlight the photos in Lightroom CC > Open as Smart Object in Photoshop CC > Manually Drag layers from each open file in Photoshop to main PSD.
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davepinminn wrote:
I must still be doing something wrong here..............
You have the wrong expectation—namely because you don't grasp the concept. A smart object is not a linked file. It's a new file all on its own (in PSB format) with no connection to the original file at all.
davepinminn wrote:
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There is no reason why the changes made to a Smart Object oject should be refleftef to a totally unrelated file.
davepinminn wrote:
…Do I need to do something different to get the changes back to the original file…
Yes. you have to go back to that original file and apply the changes directly to it. In a previous post, Jeff Schewe told you of a shortcut to achieve that:
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