Lesson overview
This lesson teaches you how to adjust settings in both Lightroom and Photoshop to ensure you’re passing the highest-quality files back and forth between the two programs. You’ll also learn how to send files from Lightroom to Photoshop in a variety of formats, as well as how to reopen a file within Lightroom that you edited in Photoshop. In fact, this may be one of the most important lessons in this book because it covers the mechanics of a typical roundtrip workflow between Lightroom and Photoshop.
In particular, this lesson teaches you how to:
- Configure Lightroom’s External Editing preferences for use with Photoshop or another editor
- Configure Photoshop’s Color settings to match what you’re using in Lightroom
- Set up Photoshop’s Maximize Compatibility preference
- Keep Lightroom in sync with Photoshop’s Camera Raw plug-in
- Send a raw file from Lightroom to Photoshop, pass the Photoshop file back to Lightroom, and then reopen the Photoshop file from within Lightroom
- Send a JPEG from Lightroom to Photoshop
- Send a raw file from Lightroom to Photoshop as a Smart Object
You’ll need 1 to 2 hours to complete this lesson.
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Setting up Lightroom and Photoshop to work together ensures you’re passing the highest-quality photos back and forth between the two programs.
Preparing for this lesson
Before starting this lesson, be sure you do the following:
Follow the instructions in the “Getting Started” lesson at the beginning of this book for setting up an LPCIB folder on your computer, downloading the lesson files to that LPCIB folder, and creating an LPCIB catalog in Lightroom.
Download the Lesson 4 folder from your account page at www.peachpit.com to username/Documents/LPCIB/Lessons.
Launch Lightroom, and open the LPCIB catalog you created in “Getting Started” by choosing File > Open Catalog and navigating to the LPCIB Catalog. Alternatively, you can choose File > Open Recent > LPCIB Catalog.
Add the Lesson 4 files to the LPCIB catalog using the steps in the Lesson 1 section “Importing photos from a hard drive.”
In the Library module’s Folders panel, select Lesson 4.
Set the Sort menu beneath the image preview to File Name.
In the next section, you’ll learn how to set up various preferences and settings in both Lightroom and Photoshop so they work together as a team.