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HOW TO Lightroom and Photoshop Retouching Workflows

AUSTRALIAN PHOTOGRAPHY + DIGITAL SEPTEMBER 2015

Modern retouching

workflows often require

you to switch between

several programs to make

the most of different

editing features. In this

tutorial, Mark Galer

shows you how to switch

between Lightroom and

Photoshop in order to take

control of colour and tone.

Download the start image

and follow the steps.

Mix

it up!

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ON THE
NET
SOFTWARE
Lightroom 5
and Adobe
Photoshop CC
RATING
Advanced
START IMAGE
T
he start image for this project was shot
late one afternoon at Princes Pier in Port
Melbourne with a Sony A6000 and an
off-camera f lash fired through a white
umbrella. The image was underexposed by 1.3 stops,
but the final image has failed to capture the ideal
tonal balance between the model and the background.
That’s okay because the tonal information in the
Raw file sits comfortably between the goal posts of
absolute black and white, so there’s plenty of room to
redistribute the highlight and shadow information in
Lightroom before we move the file into Photoshop
CC to complete the retouching and grading process.
Turn the page to get started. ❂
Note: This workflow requires you use the same version
of Camera Raw in Photoshop CC and Lightroom 5.
Unfortunately, because we’ve used Radial Filters in
Lightroom, and Camera Raw as a Smart Filter in
Photoshop CC, you can’t complete this tutorial using
Photoshop CS6 and Lightroom 4.