- [Instructor] There's one more option for passing a non raw
file from Lightroom Classic to Photoshop and that's
the edit a copy option.
The primary use for edit a copy is when you want to take
an image back to Photoshop after it's already been
through at least one roundtrip from Lightroom to Photoshop
and back again.
And you want to do this roundtrip with a copy.
For this lesson you can use the photo that we ended up with
at the end of the last movie or you can substitute
this image which is in the library modules folders panel
in the edit a copy folder.
So the back story is that you've already taken this image
back and forth between Lightroom Classic and Photoshop
a couple of times already.
You're happy with this Lake Como version of the image,
but now you want another version that's similar but that
has different text.
So you need to return to Photoshop one more time
to edit the text and you want to do that with edit a copy.
There's no need to go to the develop module because you're
not going to add any more Lightroom adjustments at this time
and that's okay because you can access the photo menu
and the edit in menu from either the library module
or the develop module.
So we'll do this from the library module this time.
Here in the what to edit window we're going to edit a copy
this time and we'll click Edit.
If you went back to Lightroom right now you'd see that
as soon as you hit that Edit button Lightroom Classic
made a copy of the Lake Como version of the image
and put it in your Lightroom catalog.
And then it opened the original Lake Como version
into Photoshop.
Here in Photoshop let's select the type I'll double click
the Lake Como type layer to do that and then I'll type
another word I'll type Bellagio which is a little town
on Lake Como and then I'll move my cursor away
from the text so it changes to the move tool symbol
and I'll move this text into place where I want it.
And then I'll click the checkmark to commit that change.
Now let's save this copy of the image by going to File
and Save and notice that now we have an additional hyphen
and edit at the end of this photo and this one is also
a tif, so I'm going to close this one.
I'm going to go back to Lightroom and here in Lightroom
in the edit a copy folder, we have both the Lake Como
version of the image and the Bellagio version of the image.
Now you probably won't have a need to use edit a copy
very often but in this situation it's just perfect.
One caveat like edit original, edit a copy would ignore
any changes that you made in Lightroom before you went
back to Photoshop.
So you'll want to save any further edits in Lightroom
to the end of the roundtrip.
For example, if I go to the develop module with the Bellagio
copy and I go over to the column of editing controls
on the right and scroll down to effects, I can add
a dark vignette around this photo.
So that's how and when to use edit a copy to pass a non raw
photo from Lightroom Classic over to Photoshop and back.