Elements+ 2023

Hi popcorn,
In short, to enable re-editing the RAW photos you have to open them a "linked smart objects".
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If you use the E+ "RAW Corrections" tool, please, do it as follows:

1). At the dialog bottom, check the "Open as Smart Object" gadget and click OK:


The opened linked object looks like this:



2) Save the edited image as a PSD file (without merging).

If you need to re-edit the RAW photo later on:

- Open the saved PSD file.
- In the Layers panel, select the linked smart object.
- Call the E+ "RAW Corrections" tool.

Important:
In case after editing the source RAW photo, the PSD file doesn't update automatically:
- select the linked smart object,
- open the E+ "Layers" dialog,
- and run the "Update Modified Content" command:



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If you only use the native Camera RAW plugin (and not the E+ "RAW Corrections" tool):

1) Open any image except for the required RAW photo.

2) Call the E+ "Layers" dialog
and run the "Open as Linked Object" command:


3) Browse to the required RAW photo and click OK.

The opened smart object should look like this:



4) After editing save the image as a PSD file (without merging).

To re-edit the RAW photo later on:

- Open the saved PSD file.
- In the Layers panel, select the linked smart object.

- Open the E+ "Layers" dialog.
- Run "Edit Smart Object Command":


Important:
In case after editing the source RAW photo, the PSD file doesn't update automatically:
- select the linked smart object,

- open the E+ "Layers" dialog,
- and run the "Update Modified Content" command:



Hope this helps.

Hi Andrei,

I apologize for bringing my problems to you.
Could you please look at my final workflow and let me know if I am losing anything in the image.

My workflow is;
Open the raw files I want to merge.
I don't crop them, I was under the impression that I should only do the white balance correction so all three images are off the same base, but with maintaining their individual dynamic ranges.

I then export them to the Editor
I do the Guided exposure merge and save the output image as a psd.

I have to do this anyway before I can import them into E+.

I decided I might as well open the merged image directly in the Native ACR, which then gives me all the options available in 14.4 to process the merged image. So I go File>"open in Camera Raw" and process the merged image there.
I then re-import it into the Editor and edit it in the editor and E+.

I then save it as a psd.