There was quite a lot of the reason why you’d swap from Lightroom CC to Photoshop CC, however the line between two of the finest picture enhancing software program packages has turn into more and more blurred. That is largely due to as soon as unique features in Photoshop – reminiscent of masking and cloning – making their means into Lightroom, giving Adobe CC customers fewer and fewer causes to enter the post-production large’s flagship picture enhancing suite.
However for extra sophisticated picture edits that require layer based mostly tweaks or particular enhancing instruments, Photoshop nonetheless reigns supreme. As such, you could end up performing easy tonal edits in Lightroom and importing your picture into Photoshop for extra tweaks. However do you know, you possibly can return mentioned picture to Lightroom when you’re completed? Better of all, it does not matter whether or not you are utilizing Lightroom Traditional – like me – or Lightroom CC, the method is identical. Here is how one can do it…
1. Transfer from Lightroom to Photoshop
Transferring from Lightroom to Photoshop could not be simpler (Picture credit score: Future / Mike Harris)
In case you’re used to enhancing in Lightroom you are in all probability conscious that by proper clicking in your chosen picture within the Filmstrip you possibly can choose Edit in>Edit in Adobe Photoshop 2024. Alternatively, you possibly can merely proper click on on the picture itself and choose the identical menu choices. It’s possible you’ll obtain a dialogue field, in that case, make sure that ‘Edit a Copy with Lightroom Changes’ is checked. This can import the picture in query immediately into Photoshop – with any adjustments you have made in Lightroom – so you possibly can proceed your enhancing workflow seamlessly in Photoshop.
2. Transfer from Photoshop again into Lightroom
Choosing Save and never Save As is the important thing to returning your picture to Lightroom (Picture credit score: Future / Mike Harris)
What you may not know is that you may reverse the method by importing the picture again into Lightroom along with your Photoshop adjustments nonetheless intact. To do that you merely choose File>Save or File>Shut>Save.
Hitting Save As was a recipe for catastrophe, however lately I’ve discovered that hitting Save As and saving a TIFF, Photoshop or Massive Doc Format file works, even in case you change the file identify. Nevertheless, I personally keep away from doing this as I’ve discovered previously that renaming a file can break the hyperlink to Lightroom.
3. Proceed enhancing in Photoshop
You possibly can transfer between Lightroom and Photoshop as many occasions as you want (Picture credit score: Future / Mike Harris)
As soon as your picture is safely again in Lightroom, you will discover a replica has been made with the Photoshop adjustments, so your unique Lightroom edit continues to be accessible. You are now free to proceed enhancing the copy and may even import the copy again into Photoshop for additional tweaks, in case you so want.
So there you have got it. In case you didn’t already learn about this painfully easy tip, it would simply revolutionize your photo-editing workflow in Adobe CC.
