Return of the Smart Photos
Isn’t it time for Lightroom users to feel the love? If you are using Lightroom, this is a feature you will love. When you use Photo RAW as a plugin for Lightroom you will be able to edit photos and then come back later and access the settings to re-edit them. This enhancement is coming in the next free update, version 2021.5.
Version 2021 is a big release! Read about every feature we released in version 2021 and 2021.1.


5 Comments
Michael AndersonMarch 26, 2021
Great idea! We need Photo Raw and the plugins updated to Universal apps so that they can be used with ACR and LrC when Adobe releases the Universal versions of those apps as they have already done for Ps and Lr. Rosetta II emulation is not a path forward.
marc labroMarch 26, 2021
great news ! The plugin we were waiting for. we can now easily add a border, glow, sunshine in a non destructive way.
what does this psd look like if we open it in photoshop ?
why using adobe rgb color space instead of prophoto ? isn’t it risky for color shifts coming back to LR ?
Great thing is that PR2021 has all “modules” in same plugin, included portrait so the whole editing is non destructive. Not the case of Nik 3.3.
colingMarch 28, 2021
Is this a different approach to Capture One where the plugins are separate apps?
colingMarch 28, 2021
Sorry – or are the Lr plugins separate apps too?
Patrick SmithMarch 28, 2021
No, the Lightroom plugins are incl. with Photo RAW
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