JUMP FROM LIGHTROOM TO PHOTOSHOP
When you’re working in Lightroom and you hit that point
in your editing process when you need to do something
to your image that Lightroom can’t, you can take that
image over to Photoshop, work your “Photoshop magic,”
and then bring that image straight back to Lightroom. It
all works seamlessly and easily because Lightroom was
developed to work with Photoshop from the very start.
Getting an image over to Photoshop differs depending
on the type of format you shoot on your camera. If you
shoot in RAW, and you want to take your image over
to Photoshop to do some further editing, you simply
press Command-E (PC: Ctrl-E), and it opens your image
in Photoshop (if Photoshop wasn’t already running, it
automatically launches Photoshop for you).
Lightroom doesn’t ask you any questions beforehand;
you simply press that shortcut and the next thing you
see is your image open in Photoshop ready for you to
start editing. By the way, if you’re not a fan of keyboard
shortcuts, then you can go under Lightroom’s Photomenu, under Edit In, and choose Edit in Adobe Photoshop
2021 (or whichever version of Photoshop or Photoshop
Elements you currently have installed).GETTING BACK TO LIGHTROOM
AFTER EDITING IN PHOTOSHOP
Now in Photoshop, make any changes or edits you’d like
(there’ll be lots more on what you can do to your images
in Photoshop in upcoming columns) and then, when
you’re done, you simply do two things:- Save your document: Just a simple Command-S
(PC: Ctrl-S) will do; then - Close your document: Command-W (PC: Ctrl-W).
When you go back to Lightroom, the edited image
will already be there waiting for you, right beside your
original image (as shown here).
When you jump a RAW image over to Photoshop,
it automatically makes a copy of your original RAW
image and sends that copy over to Photoshop for editing,
so your RAW original remains untouched in Lightroom.PHOTOSHOP FOR LIGHTROOM USERS
S COT T KELBY
Welcome to this brand-new column that I’m kicking off this issue! It’s aimed at photographers who have
been using Lightroom as their main postprocessing tool, but are thinking it’s time they learned Photoshop.
Learning Photoshop is a great thing because, while Lightroom is wonderful for making things brighter or
darker, fixing exposure problems, correcting white balance (or getting creative with it), making prints,
organizing your images, and stuff like that, Photoshop is where the real “magic” happens. So each issue
I’ll be helping you along on your Photoshop journey, and I’m doing it all from the angle of “you already
know Lightroom,” so I’ll be picking things up from there.Jump from Lightroom
to Photoshop (and Back)
PHOTOSHOP USER
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