- [Instructor] By this point in the course
you've now learned the core workflows
for starting with either a RAW file or a non-RAW file
and passing it from Lightroom to Photoshop
and back again for editing.
But there are a few other ways to move images back and forth
between Lightroom Classic and Photoshop,
and I wanted to make sure you knew about those.
The first is the Open As Layers in Photoshop command.
So let's say that you wanted to make
a composite of several different images
and you'd like to pass them from Lightroom Classic
over to Photoshop and have them all
end up as layers in a single file.
That's what this command is for,
so let's go ahead and try that using these three images,
which are in the Open As Layers subfolder
in the exercise files that you can see here
in the Library module in the Folders panel on the left.
I'm going to click on the frame
of the first of these photos,
and then I'll hold the shift key
and I'll click on the frame of the last,
and that will select all three.
I'll go up to the Photo menu and down to Edit in,
and this time instead of Edit in Adobe Photoshop
I'm going to choose Open As Layers in Photoshop.
That will launch Photoshop if it's not already open.
And in a few seconds all three images
will appear as layers in a single image.
Right now they're stacked directly on top of one another,
and so we can't see them all.
So let's add to the canvas and then spread them out.
I'm going to select the crop tool to add to the canvas.
This is a quick way to do it,
and then I'm going to drag out this way,
and I'll drag up a little bit,
and down a little bit here,
and then I'm going to click
the check mark to accept that crop.
Now I'll get the Move tool,
and I'll leave Auto-Select Layer checked,
which is the default, and then I'll come into the image
and I'll click on the top photo,
and I'll move it over this way,
and I'll get the next photo and I'll move that one over,
and I'm going to use those pink smart guides
to try to get things lined up,
or you could use the Align and Distribute options
that you get in the Options part at the top of the screen
when you have the Move tool selected.
But that's good enough for now.
Now I'm going to add a new layer at the bottom,
which I'll fill with black.
With the bottom layer selected in the layers panel
I'll hold down the command key on the Mac,
or the control key on Windows,
and click the Create New Layer button,
and that comes in at the bottom of the stack
and I'll fill that with black.
Now it's time to save this image
with these changes that we made in Photoshop.
Notice that this is a PSD file.
If I go to File and Save that adds a hyphen
and the word 'edit,' and it gives us a TIF.
I'm going to close this and go back to Lightroom,
and there in the Library module you can see
not only the three photos that we started with,
but this new TIF that's a combination of all three.
So don't forget about the Open As Layers
in Photoshop command when you're passing multiple images
from Lightroom Classic to Photoshop.