How to edit images in Adobe Premiere using Photoshop

If you have an image or illustration in Adobe Premiere Pro that you want to edit inside the program, you can do this without having to export it and import it again and this is how you do it.

How to edit images in Adobe Premiere using Photoshop

In this example we have 2 photos of me, one is a Photoshop-file and one is a Jpg. If we right-click on the Jpg-file and click “Edit Original”, it will open it in the program “Preview” on Mac (and something similar on PC).

However, if you instead click “Edit in Adobe Photoshop”, it will open the jpg inside Photoshop and this is where it gets interesting.

As you can see, this is just a flat file with one layer, because it is a jpg. But if you instead right-click on the Photoshop file inside Premiere Pro and click “Edit Original”, you open the Photoshop file with all the different layers and effects that you might have saved in there.

Now, you can simply turn on certain layers, click “Cmd + S” to save, go back to Premiere Pro and it will update the Photoshop-file inside Premiere Pro.

The big benefit of THIS workflow is that if you don’t like the change, you can just go back to Photoshop and hide the layer again and click “Cmd + S” to save and now it is updated inside Premiere Pro again.

This way of doing it saves you a lot of time by not having to export the image again and replace the old image manually inside Premiere Pro.

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