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Adobe Lightroom - Editing an Adobe Lightroom file in Photoshop
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Adobe
Lightroom Export screen |
As
mentioned in the previous article on Exporting files from
Adobe Lightroom, if you need to save your exported files in
anything other than JPEG, TIFF or DNG, or to exercise more
than a minimum amount of control over those files, you have
no other choice but to use the Edit
in Adobe Photoshop CS 2
or Edit
in
....... (another program of your choice) command in the Photo
menu.
As
you can see from the dialog box above there is one of three
choices that has to be made on how you want to handle the
file you are planning to edit externally, but if you are editing
a RAW or DNG file the first two choices are grayed out.
When
you are working with a RAW image file and choose Edit
a Copy with Lightroom Adjustments,
Lightroom will make a copy of the image in TIFF file format
and place it into the Lightroom Library next to the original
image with the same file name plus (-Edit.TIFF), a second
image would be labeled (-Edit-1.TIFF).
After
you have made your edits to that file in an external editor,
you can Save
that file and it will show up in Adobe Lightroom with the
changes you have made. You can not however do a file Save
As
and change the file format. If you started with a RAW file
your edited file will be the TIFF file mentioned above. If
you need a JPEG file you can of course do a file Save As to
a new location and Import that file into the Adobe Lightroom
Library as a new file.
The
Edit Original
command is for editing JPEG or TIFF files that are in your
Adobe Lightroom Library, you should be careful to have another
copy of the original safely stored (inside or outside of Adobe
Lightroom) with this command because it will change the image
that is in the Adobe Lightroom Library and you will not be
able to undo the changes.
The
Edit a Copy
command is the safe way to deal with JPEG and TIFF files in
your Adobe Lightroom Library when you want to edit them in
Adobe Photoshop CS or another external image editor. A copy
will first be made in Adobe Lightroom before the image is
moved to the image editor for whatever changes you have planned.
The changes will then only be applied to the copy and not
the original.
As
you can see from the image above, your screen can become pretty
crowded with both Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop CS2
on the desktop at the same time but the process is pretty
straight forward.
In
the last article I had suggested that most of the file saving
functions of Adobe Photoshop CS should be incorporated into
Adobe Lightroom. I have had a slight change of heart since
then, I still think the Export file function of Adobe Lightroom
could be improved but I also realize that there is no way
that it could incorporate all the save functions of Adobe
Photoshop CS. Crowded desktop or not, Adobe Photoshop CS and
Adobe Lightroom are both here to stay.
P.S.:
Please do not get upset if your personal experience and views
are different from my own. These opinions are mine exclusively
and do not reflect the views or policies of any of the manufacturers
mentioned in this article...... George
Mann |
