Using Photoshop transform tools in Lightroom

Hello
I know that Lightroom has some perpective controls, but is it possible to use Photoshop's Transform tool to apply skew and distort to an image
in Lightroom so that the image remains an editable Raw image (not rendered to TIFor JPEG) and that if such an image is run as a slide show the adjustments made will be shown. I've seen a video that seems to suggest this.
Mike Engles

Hello
If the image is a smart object and saved as a smart object PSD, then the image should still be editable as a Raw file with Photoshop object transforms?
Or is a now a rendered file like a JPEG or TIF? Sort of chicken and egg!
As a postscript, the transfomed smart object is rendered as a PSD much larger than the RAW file(rendered!).
There is no option to open this in RAW from Bridge, it opens in PS5. Right clicking the image gives various options, including
'edit contents' which now opens in Camera Raw (presumably as a raw file) as all smart objects should have non destructive editing.
Closing Raw updates the smart object which can be saved. So it is a sort of hybrid, a RAW file with Photoshop edits.
With any luck we are moving to a Camera Raw with all Photoshop features migrated into it.
The king is dead long live the king!
Mike Engles

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