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Chapter 3
Get Smart
Smart Objects and HDR

Okay, I named this chapter after the Smart Objects feature in Photoshop (which you can jump to directly from Lightroom), even though it’s probably not
the coolest thing in this chapter. I chose “Get Smart” because it’s hard to find a movie or song title with the acronym HDR in it. Now, of course, the
meaning behind the acronym HDR itself is one of the most misquoted of all, as I constantly see it referred to incorrectly as High Dynamic Range
photography, when in fact its roots can be traced back to the Latin phrase Hominem Dictu Regnum, which is a phrase used in ancient photographic
literature representing the belief that any photo with large white glows around the edges, overly vibrant Harry Potter-like colors, and solid black clouds
should be taken to the banks of a nearby river and beaten with a rock until it can no longer be determined to be of photographic origin. So, basically, you
can see why I went with “Get Smart.” However, this created quite a conundrum because now I had to decide whether it would be the one from the classic
TV show Get Smart or the movie version of Get Smart (which was based on the TV show), even though my readers would never know which I had chosen
when I wrote this (by the way, the word “conundrum,” surprisingly, does not have a Latin origin. It’s actually a phrase that was used in 15th century
England to describe “a convict who can no longer play the drums.” I don’t know about you, but I find this stuff fascinatum!). Anyway, I hope that your not
knowing which version of Get Smart I used doesn’t In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus caritas, which roughly means “If it’s necessary to
fly United Airlines to Dubai, don’t leave your seat while the snack cart is in the aisle.”

Smart Objects: Keeping Your RAW Image Editable Using Smart Objects
If you want to be able to re-edit your RAW image in Photoshop, instead of making the jump like we normally do (where Lightroom brings a copy of your
RAW image over to Photoshop), you can keep that “RAW editibility” by choosing to take your RAW image over to Photoshop as a smart object. Once you
do that, you can re-edit the RAW image using Photoshop’s Camera Raw plug-in, which is pretty much identical to editing it in Lightroom because Camera
Raw is built into Lightroom. Adobe just calls it something different in Lightroom—the Develop module. It’s the same sliders, in the same order, and they
do the same thing.

Step One:
To take your image over to Photoshop as a re-editable RAW image, go under the Photo menu, under Edit In, and choose Open as Smart Object in Photo-
shop (as shown here).

Step Two:
When you choose Open as Smart Object in Photoshop, your image appears in Photoshop like always, but you can tell it’s a smart object by looking in the
Layers panel—in the bottom-right corner of the layer’s thumbnail, you’ll see a little page icon (seen here). That’s letting you know it’s an editable smart
object.