- [Instructor] Now let's see how to pass a file
from Lightroom Classic to Photoshop
for additional editing in Photoshop.
We're working here with a raw file because
the handoff from Lightroom Classic to Photoshop
is smoothest when you do use a raw file.
In the next chapter, we'll see how to do this
with JPGs and TIFFs and other file formats too.
If you're following along,
use the image of Lake Como as it looked
at the end of the last video,
with the changes that we made there in the basic panel
and, if you remember,
we removed the little duck in the water
using the Spot Removal tool.
Now, let's head over to Photoshop with this image
to do some more sophisticated retouching.
The way to do that is to go to the Photo menu
at the top of the screen,
choose Edit In, and there you'll see
Edit in the latest version of Photoshop
that's on your computer.
If you prefer using shortcuts,
the shortcut for this command is Command-E on the Mac
or Control-E on Windows.
Or, if you're in the Library module,
you can just right click on the thumbnail
to bring up a contextual menu
and you'll find the Edit In commands there too.
So, I'm going to select Edit in Adobe Photoshop
and that will launch Photoshop if it's not already open
with the image with all the edits that we made to it
here in Lightroom Classic.
So let's do some retouching here in Photoshop.
One of the beauties of retouching in Photoshop
is that you have multiple retouching tools to choose from.
And one of the most powerful is Content Aware Fill.
So let's use that to remove
some of the objects in the water.
I'm going to select the Lasso tool in the Toolbar
and then I'll go into the image
and I'm going to draw a loose selection
around this rusty object and its reflection to hide it.
And notice that I'm including a little bit
of the water inside the selection.
Then I'll go to the Options bar
and I'll click the Add to Selection option,
or you can just hold Shift on your keyboard,
and I'm going to add to that selection
a couple of these buoys that I'd also like
to remove from this image.
Now I'll go to the Edit menu
and I'll choose Content Aware Fill.
That opens this large Content Aware Fill workspace.
Over on the right, you can see a preview
of how the image is going to look when we apply
this Content Aware Fill retouch
and it looks pretty great as is.
So I don't need to make any changes here,
but I did want to show you that
if you wanted to modify the result,
you could use some of the tools
on the left in this workspace
to either add to or subtract from your selection
or to modify which pixels are being used
to do the retouching
and that's the green area here on the left.
Over on the right, there are further controls
that you could use to modify the preview.
I'm going to leave those at their defaults
and just come down and check that output settings
is set to Output to New Layer
and then I'll click Ok.
And back in Photoshop's main interface,
I'll press Command-D on the Mac,
Control-D on Windows, to deselect.
And there's the result.
You can see in the Layers panel
that Content Aware Fill has made a brand new layer
on which it has created patches that it's blending in
with the photo on the layer below.
So that's just a taste of how powerful
retouching can be in Photoshop
and why you'll often want to take a photo
from Lightroom Classic into Photoshop to do retouching.
So now let's get back to our roundtrip workflow.
I want to save the image with these changes
in a way that Lightroom will recognize it.
To do that, I'm going to go up to the File menu
and I'm going to choose Save, not Save As.
When I do, take a look at the file name
and you'll see that Photoshop has added
the suffix hyphen and edit and then it has changed the file
so that it's no longer a raw file, it's now a TIFF,
which is a non-raw, pixel-based file.
And that's because Photoshop is a pixel editor,
it's not a raw editor.
So, now we're done with the first two steps
in our roundtrip workflow.
We started in Lightroom, we made some changes there,
we brought the file into Photoshop
using the Edit In command and made some changes here,
and we saved it in Photoshop.
Stay tuned for the next movie
where we're going to go back to Lightroom
to see the results.