- [Instructor] One of the advantages
of editing in Lightroom Classic
is that all the edits you make there
are nondestructive of the original photo.
They're just instructions in a Lightroom catalog.
By contrast, edits that you make in Photoshop
can make permanent changes to the pixels in a photo.
But there is a way to avoid that
and to build in more editing flexibility
at the Photoshop end
of the Lightroom Classic Photoshop workflow,
and that is, when you're passing images
from Lightroom Classic over to Photoshop for editing,
use the Edit in Photoshop as a Smart Object command.
If you're following along,
you can use this photo
from the Open as Smart Object sub folder
in the folders panel in the Library module.
I'm going to open that in the Develop module
by pressing D on the keyboard.
I've already made some basic edits to this RAW photo,
and now I'd like to change it to black and white.
So I'm just going to click Black and White here
at the top of the basic panel,
and now I want to take it over to Photoshop
to do something there that I can't do in Lightroom Classic,
like add text or a graphic.
So I'll go to the Photo menu and this time,
instead of choosing Edit in Adobe Photoshop,
I'll choose Open as Smart Object in Photoshop.
Here in Photoshop, if you take a look at the layers panel,
you'll see that the single layer in the image
has the special Smart Object symbol on it.
Now, let's make an edit here in Photoshop.
I'm just going to add some quick text,
so I'll select the Horizontal Type tool.
I'll choose a font and
I'm just going to type Italy and click the check mark.
Now, let's say that I change my mind
about having converted this photo to black and white.
Rather than have to go all the way back to Lightroom
to change it back to color,
I can change it to color right here in Photoshop
because the photo layer is a Smart Object.
So when I double click on the thumbnail,
not on the gray bar of the photo layer,
Camera Raw opens.
Camera Raw is a plugin in Photoshop
that acts a lot like Lightroom Classic's editor.
Almost all of the same controls are here
that are in Lightroom Classic's develop module,
except the interface is a little different.
So here I'm just going to go to the basic panel,
and I'm going to click Color,
and that takes this photo back to its color version.
And then I'll click Okay
to close the Camera Raw editing window.
And in just a minute the photo is in color again
here in Photoshop, and I could then continue
to make other edits in Photoshop.
When I'm ready to go back to Lightroom Classic,
I'll go to the File menu.
I'll choose Save, not Save As,
and notice that that took that RAW file
and saved a copy as a TIFF,
which we'll see there when we go back to Lightroom Classic.
Here in Lightroom Classic, you can see that we now have,
in the same folder, this version of the image
that we had converted to black and white
in Lightroom Classic, taken over to Photoshop,
then added text in Photoshop
and converted it back to color while in Photoshop
using Camera Raw and we also have
the original RAW file
which we had converted to black and white
here in Lightroom Classic.
And all of the changes that we made to this version
are available to undo or to edit here in Lightroom Classic.
So that's how and why you might use
the Open as Smart Object command
to pass files from Lightroom Classic to Photoshop.