The second box allows you to configure the optimum settings for whatever software you wish to use other than Photoshop. You can have other external editors as well. When you open Lightroom’s Preferences and go under the “External Editor” tab, you will be presented with the following screen: The Primary Editor Setting (Top Box) are for Adobe Photoshop. Preparing Lightroom & Photoshop to Work Together For those of us who shoot RAW for the HUGE list of editing advantages, follow along to optimize both Lightroom and Photoshop to work together best. If you shoot IN CAMERA JPEG, this article isn't really for you. We will be dealing with 16 BIT images for the fine benefits that a 16 BIT file offers vs 8 BIT JPEG files. This article is written to explain a RAW image workflow. Everything that Lightroom can do to an image in terms of editing, Photoshop can also – and in many cases much better.īut how do we know we are working between these two applications correctly? Are my settings right? Where do my files go? What are they named? What color space do I work with? What, Why, When, ETC?!?! It can get a little confusing and to add to this it seems some have different answers. However, there is Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom’s much more mature big brother. Many photographers are more than pleased to know that obtaining great, professional images with just Lightroom is totally possible. On the editing side of things, Lightroom is more than enough for most images. In addition to the many tools available to us in Lightroom, we also get an exceptionally good file management system that keeps our thousands of files neat and orderly. How To Properly Transfer Images from Lightroom to Photoshop and back!! Lightroom to Photoshop & Back! Roundtrip 101Īdobe Photoshop Lightroom (The Applications official name) and Photoshop are two extremely powerful and therefor popular image editing applications.

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