- [Instructor] Now we're ready to take the third
and final step in a typical round-trip workflow
that takes an image from Lightroom Classic to Photoshop
and back to Lightroom Classic,
making changes in both programs.
If you've been following along,
you know that we started with this image
as a RAW file in Lightroom Classic,
where we were managing and keeping track of it.
We made some basic adjustments in Lightroom Classic,
including removing a little duck
that was floating here in the water.
Then to do more challenging retouching,
we passed the file from Lightroom Classic to Photoshop,
and when we were done doing that editing in Photoshop,
we saved the file,
and at that point,
we noticed that it was a TIF file.
Although remember, we started with a RAW file
back in Lightroom Classic.
So that takes us to where we are now.
Now let's switch over to Lightroom Classic
to see the results of what we've done so far.
Switching to Lightroom brings me back to the Develop module
where I was working on this photo,
and what I'm going to do is go down
to the bottom of the screen,
and I'm going to click on the black bar
at the very bottom to bring up the film strip.
The film strip displays thumbnails
of all the photos in the selected source,
which is the chapter one exercise files folder,
in this case.
As you can see,
there are two versions of the photo
here in the film strip,
and this is the result of the round-trip workflow
starting with the RAW file.
So let's talk about each of these versions of the photo,
starting with the one that's highlighted in the filmstrip.
I'm going to press the letter I on my keyboard,
and that brings up some information about the selected file,
which we see a larger version of in the editing window.
And you can see that this is the TIFF
that was saved from Photoshop in the last movie.
You know that not only because of the file name,
but also because if you look at the content,
you can see that it contains both the adjustments
that we made in Lightroom.
For example, that duck is gone.
And the edits that we made in Photoshop.
For example, that big iron object is missing from the water.
So now we not only have a new version,
a TIFF version of the image with the edits from Lightroom
and from Photoshop,
but that version was automatically included for us
back in the Lightroom catalog
without us having to import it.
So what can you do now with this TIFF version?
Well, one thing you could do is take this file
back from Lightroom to Photoshop again
for a second round of Photoshop edits,
and I'll show you how to do that in the next chapter.
Another thing you could do is to make further changes
here in Lightroom Classic.
For example, let's say you want to crop this image.
To do that, I'll go and click on the crop overlay tool
in the toolbar on the right.
I'll make sure that the lock is locked here
so that when I click and drag on this corner,
the proportions of the crop bounding box
are constrained to the original aspect ratio,
and maybe I'll go to about here
to remove the branches on the right,
and then I'll press Enter or Return.
Now, there's one thing you can't do with this TIFF,
and that is you can't go back and edit the original changes
that we made to it in Lightroom Classic.
For example, we can't undo the removal of the small duck,
and we can't go back
and undo the basic adjustments that we made
because all of that is baked into this version of the file.
And don't forget there's another thumbnail
down in the filmstrip.
Let's select that thumbnail.
And that changes the image
that's showing in the edit window.
Now we're looking at a RAW file.
This is the original DNG file
that we started the workflow with,
and it contains the changes
that we originally made in Lightroom.
You can see those changes over here.
In other words, this one is the original from Lightroom
with just the Lightroom adjustments,
and this one is a copy
with the original Lightroom adjustments baked in
and the Photoshop adjustments on top of those.
So that completes the basic round-trip workflow
from Lightroom Classic to Photoshop
and back to Lightroom Classic
when you're starting with a RAW file.
If you start with a non-RAW file
like a PSD file, a JPEG, or a TIFF,
there are a few extra steps,
and that's what we're going to cover
in the very next chapter.