- [Instructor] Sending a layered Photoshop
or any other pixel image back to Photoshop
from Lightroom presents a set of confusing options.
Let's take a look at what those are.
I have selected an edited TIFF from Photoshop here,
and I'll send it to Photoshop with a command E.
And that brings up this confusing dialogue,
we're presented with these three options.
We don't get these options with a raw file.
The raw data cannot be edited directly in Photoshop,
so that requires a new file.
But with an image that came from Photoshop like this one,
we can choose to make another copy or open the file as is.
So let's go through these options really closely here.
The first one, edit a copy with Lightroom adjustments,
that's going to create a copy of this file
and apply any Lightroom adjustments that were made.
Well, we didn't make any Lightroom adjustments
to this image.
All the edits were done in Photoshop.
So the next option, edit a copy.
This will do the same thing,
it'll make a copy of this image,
and it'll ignore any Lightroom adjustments.
Well, again, we didn't make any Lightroom adjustments,
and we don't want to make a copy of this file,
all we want to do is open the file.
And if all you want to do is open the file,
choose Edit Original.
I would say the majority, all the time,
this is what you're looking for.
You just want to open the Photoshop file as is,
choose Edit Original.
So we'll open that, and here in Photoshop,
we see the adjustment layer that we added
when we created this TIFF file,
Just as we left it when we saved it before.
Let's go back to Lightroom Classic
and just review those one more time.
I'll do a command D so that we can look at them here.
Here's what you need to remember
to understand these options.
The Lightroom edits are stored in the Lightroom catalog.
Photoshop performs edits in the image
and Photoshop also supports layers while Lightroom doesn't.
And because this can be so confusing
and because you can't have both Lightroom edits
and Photoshop layers,
I recommend that you don't do further Lightroom edits
to your layered TIFF or Photoshop file,
which you can do, Lightroom doesn't prevent you from that.
So I have the TIFF file selected here,
and I could make Lightroom adjustments,
but remember, whatever adjustments I'd make here,
I can't keep if I want to keep the layers
that are inside of Photoshop,
so I don't recommend doing that.
Here's my workflow.
First, I edit in Lightroom as far as I can go,
which is this file.
Then I send it to Photoshop for finish edits,
which would be the TIFF file.
The edited Photoshop file is saved back
to my Lightroom catalog, so that I can easily find it
and export out JPEGs with my watermark,
but I do not perform any additional edits
to the final edited Photoshop file.
I hope you find that workflow helpful.