Comments on: How to Open Photos from Lightroom in Photoshop https://photoshopcafe.com/open-photos-lightroom-photoshop/ Adobe Photoshop tutorials and Lightroom tutorials Thu, 18 Feb 2021 03:25:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Frances https://photoshopcafe.com/open-photos-lightroom-photoshop/#comment-204494 Thu, 18 Feb 2021 03:25:51 +0000 http://photoshopcafe.com/?p=48026#comment-204494 So am a little late to this party , … but so glad that I stopped to catch up! Opening in PS as a Smart Object, from LR is a powerful bonus to a solid workflow.
Tried it all out, yesterday, with some excellent results in the end. Even figured out how to Add a New Layer, in PS, that was NOT a Smart Object so I could do some Content-Aware Editing and some other stuff. Can’t believe it but was able to arrange the layers to save the edits & adjustments AND drum roll, please! … The finished file is in LR, now, as a copy – right next to the original file! Brilliant!! And I still have a fully operational PS PSD fully-layered file saved outside of LR on a separate folder/drive. Naturally, do not need this for all files but it is nice to know. (There were a couple of bumps and crashes along the way but we don’t need to talk about that, now – ha-ha!)
Thank-you so much, Colin!

]]> By: Colin Smith https://photoshopcafe.com/open-photos-lightroom-photoshop/#comment-175331 Mon, 25 Jan 2021 22:49:10 +0000 http://photoshopcafe.com/?p=48026#comment-175331 In reply to Dan Connors.

Thanks Dan, these are good suggestions.

]]> By: Colin Smith https://photoshopcafe.com/open-photos-lightroom-photoshop/#comment-175327 Mon, 25 Jan 2021 22:44:25 +0000 http://photoshopcafe.com/?p=48026#comment-175327 In reply to David Pickles.

Preferences>External Editing, change it t a PSD. These days, Photoshop Tif and Psd have pretty much the same functionality since Adobe owns the Tif format

]]> By: Roger Holman https://photoshopcafe.com/open-photos-lightroom-photoshop/#comment-175170 Wed, 20 Jan 2021 09:26:55 +0000 http://photoshopcafe.com/?p=48026#comment-175170 Well explained Great Thanks

]]> By: Dan Connors https://photoshopcafe.com/open-photos-lightroom-photoshop/#comment-175039 Sat, 16 Jan 2021 16:24:10 +0000 http://photoshopcafe.com/?p=48026#comment-175039 Colin, GREAT brief–I always wondered which to use. You made it clear. Would love to see something on Colorize Neural filter. Interface has me baffled. Typical problem: sensei missed a hand or an ear. I’d like to pick up the color from the face and have sensei apply it to an ear–no color picker. (I know this can be done after leaving Colorize in Photoshop.) Thanks!

]]> By: David Simone https://photoshopcafe.com/open-photos-lightroom-photoshop/#comment-175009 Fri, 15 Jan 2021 18:54:23 +0000 http://photoshopcafe.com/?p=48026#comment-175009 Nice tutorial – finally I know how to get layers I used in PS to be there when reopening from LR. Thanks

]]> By: Reurink Anton https://photoshopcafe.com/open-photos-lightroom-photoshop/#comment-174998 Fri, 15 Jan 2021 12:43:49 +0000 http://photoshopcafe.com/?p=48026#comment-174998 Great Colin, this was very helpful.
Best regards
Anton

]]> By: Joewu Linne https://photoshopcafe.com/open-photos-lightroom-photoshop/#comment-174981 Thu, 14 Jan 2021 20:45:11 +0000 http://photoshopcafe.com/?p=48026#comment-174981 Hi Colin,

two good new ideas for me: using a smart object for changes in the ACR-Filter and making an extra preset if I want to keep the layers in Ps.

Thank you. Also for writing down all that stuff. That later helps a lot when I will have forgotten important parts.

Best regards
Joewu

]]> By: David Pickles https://photoshopcafe.com/open-photos-lightroom-photoshop/#comment-174976 Thu, 14 Jan 2021 18:25:20 +0000 http://photoshopcafe.com/?p=48026#comment-174976 I always start with LR adjustments, then if I need Photoshop, I edit a copy with LR adjustments – when I return to LR, I have chosen to have it saved as a PSD file. This file has the LR adjustments baked in, but all the layers created in PS are retained. So the only advantage I see to using Edit as a Smart Object is to retain the original LR adjustments and be able to tweak them later. Can I choose when editing as a Smart Object to have the copy that is saved be a PSD file rather than TIF?

]]> By: Deirdre Allinson https://photoshopcafe.com/open-photos-lightroom-photoshop/#comment-174974 Thu, 14 Jan 2021 16:02:19 +0000 http://photoshopcafe.com/?p=48026#comment-174974 Thanks so much for the tip on importing as a smart object. And for showing how to use the custom preset – that was new to me.

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