- [Instructor] Lightroom is a powerful image editor
but there are times you may want to use Photoshop too.
Fortunately, Lightroom and Photoshop
work really well together.
When a raw image is sent to Photoshop from Lightroom,
a raster or pixel based image is created.
The new file includes the Lightroom edits
and is open in Photoshop.
After the new file is edited in Photoshop and saved,
it's automatically imported back into Lightroom.
I'm going to show you how this works
but first, it's best to start from a collection.
Right now, we're selected on chapter six
that has two images, and that's a folder
that's in the folders panel.
So the easiest way to make a collection
from this is to do a right click or control click
and choose Create collection and then give it a name.
So we'll say this collection is for Photoshop.
We'll create it and now we have a collection
in the collections panel
and I'm going to select the collection,
and I'm going to work from here.
We'll take this image and send it to Photoshop
by going to Photo, Edit In and over to Edit in Photoshop.
You can also use the keyboard shortcut command E
or Ctrl E for windows.
That generates pixels of this image
and opens it in Photoshop.
Now let's just do a quick edit,
something that we'll be able to see
when we get back to Lightroom.
So let's add a color lookup,
and I'll change this to candlelight
because will easily be able to see this back in Lightroom.
Now I'll close this file with a command W,
and I'll save it, and then I'll return to Lightroom.
Because we started from this collection,
the new Photoshop file
was automatically returned to the collection.
It was also stacked with the original file.
Let's take a look at what we have here.
This obviously is the image that was edited in Photoshop.
Let's switch back to the develop module with the "D" key,
and we'll see that it has no Lightroom edits at all
because it's a brand new file.
And if we toggle on the info overlay with the "I" key,
we'll see that this new file has been upended Edit.tif.
So that's the name of this.
The original file next to it is the raw file.
If we go to the grid view,
we can also see that it was stacked.
So the new file got stacked with the original,
which is a great way to keep track of your Photoshop edits.
I like to also give my Photoshop tips a color label
so they're really easy to identify.
So I'll select on the edited file from Photoshop,
do a right click and come down here
to set color label to blue.
You could also do that by pressing the nine.
Now you can see how easy it is to spot
which one of these images has been edited in Photoshop
versus the original.
With this edit in Photoshop method,
Lightroom created a new file
with the develop settings baked in.
Meaning there's no way to go back
to the original unedited version of the photo
in this new TIFF file.
There is, however, a way to send raw data to Photoshop.
Let's try that with this second image here.
This time, I'm going to go to Photo, Edit In,
and choose Open as a Smart Object in Photoshop.
If we look close at the Layers panel here,
we'll see that this layer has the Smart Object icon.
Let's change my panel options to the big icon
so that you can see it.
So this smart object contains all of the raw data
from Lightroom but it's not connected
to the raw data in Lightroom.
It's a copy of it.
If we double click on the Smart Object,
it will open Camera Raw.
And if we look at all the settings here in Camera Raw,
they match the settings that we set up in Lightroom.
So they were passed through to this Smart Object.
Let's take the vibrance down
so we do something that we can see, and I'll just click OK.
we'll see it update here.
I'll close it with a command W.
I'll save it.
We'll return to Lightroom.
Back in Lightroom, we see the new file from Photoshop
stacked with the original file.
If we switch to the develop module,
we'll see that there's no edits in Lightroom.
But if we open that back in Photoshop,
we'll find the raw data still there.
Sending the raw image data to Photoshop from Lightroom
can provide more flexibility for your Photoshop edits,
but it isn't required.
If you have excellent Photoshop skills
and understand Smart Objects
this may be a good option for you.
With either method
Photoshop will greatly expand your editing toolkit.
If you use Photoshop, follow a consistent workflow
so you don't lose track of which images are which
inside a Lightroom.
I recommend starting from a collection
and applying a color label when you return.
So, I'll press the nine key on my keyboard
to apply that blue label
to the second Photoshop edit I made.