- [Instructor] There's one more section
of Lightroom Classic's external editing preferences
that's worth knowing about
and that is the file naming section.
This section controls the way that files will be named
when you take them from Lightroom Classic over to Photoshop
and then save them back.
At the top of this section,
you can see the default file name
which is the name of the actual file
followed by a hyphen and then the word edit
and then the TIFF format or the PSD format
depending on what you chose in the file format field
at the top of the preferences.
If you want to change that,
then click on this template menu
and you can choose from any of these templates.
So you might choose to have a custom name
followed by a sequence
or a custom named followed by the original file number
or whatever you like.
If you want to build your own file naming template,
then come down to the bottom of this menu and choose edit
and in the file name template editor, here in this box,
you'll build a formula that will determine the file names
of your files in the Lightroom Photoshop round trip
editing workflow.
So, for example, let's say that I wanted each of my files
to say edited by JFK, those are my initials.
Or let's say that I wanted to add the date here,
I could type a hyphen
and then I can add one of these tokens.
So, here I'll go down to date.
I'll choose the kind of date that I want.
Maybe I want the first one, month day year.
And that token will appear up here in the formula.
If I change my mind and I don't want something there,
I can just backspace over it.
So I think I'm actually going to add in
some underscores here
and that will be my file naming template.
Now I could just click done to apply it
or I can make this into a preset
that will appear in that dropdown menu
of file naming templates.
To do that, I'll go up to the preset field.
I'll say, save current settings as new preset
and I'll call this one file name edited by JFK
and click create
and click done.
And now when I come down to the external editing preferences
and I click on the template menu,
there you can see the new preset that I just created
and that will always be available here
unless and until I delete it.
So don't forget that you have control
over the type of file,
the stacking behavior
and the file naming
of the files that you generate
during your Lightroom Classic Photoshop workflow.