So all of my pictures are shot in RAW so that I get that extra window that pops up for RAW photos... however sometimes I feel the need to toggle my photo back and forth from that window and regular photoshop.
Is there anyway of doing that without saving, closing and reopening?
Ah, now I see. ACR is like Photoshop's way of letting you do global corrections (or just view a raw file) before you start editing. So, from there to Photoshop isn't a problem (with the right version of PS for your particular raw files, that is), but as soon as you edit something in PS you can't save it as a raw file anymore. Well, not a proprietry one anyway - you can save it as a TIF or PSD, which is basically raw in nature (no compression) so you won't lose anything in the process.
There's no real way around it, because ACR is part of PS and is designed to be used just as a step in your processing.
For what you want to do, I suggest taking a look at Lightroom - it might give you some more flexibility. Sorry I can't offer more help than that!
If you click on the thing that looks like a web link at the bottom of your Adobe Camera Raw window (present in CS3, CS4 and , I presume, CS5?), you get a new box titled Workflow Options. At the bottom of that, there is a box you can tick named "Open in PShop as Smart Objects".
if you then save your file, you will see the Smart Objects thumbnail in the layers palette when you open it in PShop. Simply double click this thumbnail & you will be taken back to ACR, so you can keep changing the file as much as you like, thus retaining RAW editability within a multi layered PSD (if you so wish).
Still not as good as Lightroom, perhaps, but may be useful to you.
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vs. this window:
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is there a way to toggle back and forth?
There's no real way around it, because ACR is part of PS and is designed to be used just as a step in your processing.
For what you want to do, I suggest taking a look at Lightroom - it might give you some more flexibility. Sorry I can't offer more help than that!
if you then save your file, you will see the Smart Objects thumbnail in the layers palette when you open it in PShop. Simply double click this thumbnail & you will be taken back to ACR, so you can keep changing the file as much as you like, thus retaining RAW editability within a multi layered PSD (if you so wish).
Still not as good as Lightroom, perhaps, but may be useful to you.