
If you have other ways, share them with me. This is just my way and the settings I use. When digital photography became popular, PS became the way to edit photos. Adobe released Photoshop (PS) as a graphics editor in 1990.
#ADOBE LIGHTROOM AND PHOTOSHOP HOW TO#
It’s good to know how to jump from one software to another and there are several ways of doing it. Some Background to Photoshop and Lightroom. As you may guess, destructive editors apply edits directly to the original. Photoshop, on the other hand, is a destructive editor. Adobe Lightroom is a non-destructive photo editor, which means it doesn’t permanently alter your original image file. From here you can make your normal export from Lightroom. Photoshop and Lightroom differ in how they treat your image files during and after editing. I generally would export straight from PS, but if you have any reason to come back into LR then this is how you end in itself. You now have the images with the PS adjustments back in LR for you to edit or make any further changes that you may need to. Once you click the photo stack, you will see 1, 2 or something similar, depending on which photo and out of how many.

It means there is a photo stack of the related images and if you click on it, you will see the rest of images. Once you have saved the image in PS you will go back to LR and possibly see the stack of photos icon on the original image. In this case, after I have done all the edits I want, I click File>Save and it will save the file in the same folder as the original, which will also show up in LR as you will see in the next step. Now, this is what I get when the file opens in PS. If you look at the options in gray, you have the ability to do HDR and Panorama export from here after selecting a group of photos that apply. I won’t do this now because I have no need for it in this case.
#ADOBE LIGHTROOM AND PHOTOSHOP UPDATE#
You can also Open as Smart Object, in which if you make any changes in LR they should automatically update in PS. 3 – ExportingĪfter you have changed your settings for the kind of file you want to export, then go to your image> Right Click > Edit In> Edit in Adobe Photoshop (your version). Lightroom offers easy-to-use editing tools like sliders to retouch your photos and transformative presets to quickly apply unique adjustments that bring your photo to life wherever you are. Once you do this step you may have to restart LR for the changes to occur. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is a free, powerful photo editor and camera app that empowers you to capture and edit stunning images. To get to this menu you go to Edit>Preferences. There are many different options in this section, but this is what I go with because I want to have as much and as good of information in my file as I can. In the next step, I will show you the actual settings I have set up for when I export images to Photoshop. I would do grain and sharpening as a final step, depending on the size and medium of how my final image will go out. I would do all of my color, lens correction and tone curve edits, but would stay away from doing sharpening and grain.


I have done all of my edits in Lightroom and now I want to move into doing some more editing in Photoshop. Let’s say this is the photo I want to edit.
