Editing in Lightroom and Photoshop

[TexKen]

I shoot RAW. I can do most of my editing right in LR, but some heavier stuff I scoot over to PS. My question is what order should I do it in. Should I do ALL my LRediting first THEN go to PS for the last part or the other way around?

I notice that when I edit in PS first, save it and return to LR (with the changes saved as a PSD), that all the Develop module presets are set to 0, it doesn't retain the CR2 settings. Does that matter?

[billbunton]

You should do as much as possible in LR. When you send it to PS for editing, LR converts it to TIFF or PSD; it's no longer raw. That's why all the develop settings are reset to 0.

[Wil_Bloodworth]

Originally Posted by TexKen

Should I do ALL my LRediting first THEN go to PS for the last part...?

Yes. Just use the Edit in Photoshop CS4 option with "Create a Copy with LR Adjustments" when you want to go do the "heavy" editing. Always start in LR though.

- Wil

[tukaniray]

I agree with the above statements as well.

Even when you take the RAW format directly into Photoshop ... it does some RAW photoediting (like in LR) ... but then jumps into a photoshop/Tiff format for any other editing. Especially if you are working on adding some layers.

But sometimes you have to use Photoshop for some real Detail work. (like taking out faces that are just distracting a shot or taking parts of one photo into another ... but you probably already know all that)

-Ray-

[FireHeart Photography]

my workflow is to import into LR do all the color corrections and enhancements there. I edit my favorites, keepers and trash - export out - Favorites get PS for touch ups other issues... done...

[Jred]

I run into similar issues with aperture/gimp. When i do the heavy lifting in Aperture it moves out to GIMP in .tiff format.

One I finish in GIMP I am not sure how to get the file back to .jpeg .raw .cr2 or whatever. How do most of you guys do it?

[ChristopherCoy]

Originally Posted by billbunton

You should do as much as possible in LR. When you send it to PS for editing, LR converts it to TIFF or PSD; it's no longer raw. That's why all the develop settings are reset to 0.

That can't be true... When I take it from LR into CS3, and then save from PS, it stacks a TIFF file along with my NEF file, and the NEF still has the original LR adjustments. Unless I'm not looking at it correctly or not doing something right? Which is entirely possible.

[billbunton]

Originally Posted by ChristopherCoy

That can't be true... When I take it from LR into CS3, and then save from PS, it stacks a TIFF file along with my NEF file, and the NEF still has the original LR adjustments. Unless I'm not looking at it correctly or not doing something right? Which is entirely possible.

That's right, you edited the tiff in PS. You can make further adjustments to either one on LR. If you make further adjustments to the NEF in LR, you do so without the edits you made to the tiff in PS. If you adjust the tiff in LR, you are not adjusting the raw but rather "cooked" pixels.

[ChristopherCoy]

Ok... I get it now. Shouldda kept my mouth shut.

[billbunton]

Originally Posted by ChristopherCoy

Ok... I get it now. Shouldda kept my mouth shut.

Nah, you didn't quite get it, so you did the right thing and asked!