Miro to Photoshop, so there's many different ways you can actually go into Photoshop from Lightroom. We can just double click on our image. Or not double click, but control click or right click on the image and then go Edit In Photoshop, whatever version of Photoshop we have, or you can actually go into Color Efex Pro, or there's all kinds of other softwares you see that I have here on the computer. Also, I didn't talk about Silver Efex Pro, as a side note here, but that is a great free, or at least it was free when Google had it, Nik plugin that's really powerful for black and white photography. It kinda overdoes a lot of stuff for me sometimes so I have to tone it down, but it is a really quick way to get pretty amazing black and white. But if you click on this Edit In Photoshop CC, this relies on your preference settings as to how it's going to export it, what color space, what resolution, is it TIFF file? Is it PSD? Whatever you set, it's gonna then open up Photoshop, and Photoshop...

is open. It's taking a little time to breath, there we go. And here it opens. And if I do some adjustment to this image, let me just go down here and do a crazy, woops, not that, cancel. And we do a crazy color balance just so you can see it in action like that. And I hit Save. It's gonna save this file back just where it is next to the raw file, in your folder. And so once it's saved, which it's done saving, I click close and I come back to Lightroom. Bada bing, bada boom, it's right back there. So that's kinda a convenient way to do it. You saw how crazy I was with organization earlier, so I typically don't do it this way. I'm just gonna delete that file. And what I might do here is go in and go Photo, there's another way to do this, Open as a Smart Object, and this is a really good way to do it. So a smart object is basically, when we go down here to Layers, this is an editable raw file underneath whatever stack I'm gonna add on top of it. So if I double click on this it opens that raw image into Adobe Camera Raw, which is all the same sliders I have in Lightroom, but it's just a different interface as you see here. And maybe I decide later that, oh I didn't wanna pull the highlights down that far or I wanted it to go a little farther and I click OK and then I do a whole bunch of stuff, which we'll get into this tomorrow. Make us a levels adjustment on top of that, but whatever adjustments I'm doing in the Adobe Camera Raw, are being saved back into the Lightroom, Adobe Camera Raw, because this is a smart object. So that's pretty powerful if you wanna go back after the fact and actually tweak your Adobe Camera Raw file, without having to go all the way back into Lightroom. And I do that quite often, actually using these smart objects. I'm not gonna save that. And then there's like six ways to do this, so I'm just showing you all the different ways. Do we have a question? Nope, we're good? Nope, we're good. Alright, let me bring this up. So you just hit the export key here. And I've got a host of all these different, you know, presets for exporting stuff but we can just go in here, and I exported something this morning, let me select a photo. Let me back out for two seconds here, because there's something I think you might find very useful that I learned from a photographer, Seth Resnick, a bunch of years ago, and it's not on my hard drive right now, but it should be. Let me pull that out. I cleaned up the hard drive just so there wasn't all these folders everywhere. On all of my computers I have this processed images folder set up. It's empty, except for sub folders in it. And I have folders that are DNGs, HDR, imports that might be temporary imports. So you don't necessarily need all of these, and the jpeg folder's got a few things in it. Miscellaneous, you know, is whatever. Psd, so typically what I'd say is create this folder on your desktop that's never gonna move, ever. You're gonna have this process image, or whatever you end up calling it, on your desktop. And at the bare minimum put a TIFF folder in there, a psd folder, and a jpeg folder. I have a bunch of extras. And so what this does is when I go into Lightroom and I export, I'm just gonna say export this image. And let's say I'm gonna select that folder off the desktop, oh, specific folder here, excuse me. And I'm gonna go in into my processed images folder, I'm gonna select jpeg. Well, let me choose something else since there's a bunch of stuff in jpeg. Let's do TIFFS since there's nothing in there. And so, I'm gonna export a TIFF file and let's say I wanted to Adobe RGB, eight bits per channel is fine, 300 pixels per inch, no problem. I wanna keep the metadata here. Whatever parameters I wanna do, I can set them here and then export. And so all of the presets that you saw on the left side there, all go to this processed image folder so there's no confusion. You know, what typically happens is you export something to some very specific folder, and then the next time you export you're not paying attention and you just hit export and you're like, oh, I don't remember what folder I sent it to. And you're just like adding raw images to random folders or whatever images to random folders. And you may or may not ever find them until like a year later. You're like, oh, what's that image doing here? So by setting up this thing on the desktop I now know that everything's going here, and that TIFF image is right there, there's not confusion over where that image went. And now if I need to move that onto another hard drive or wherever it needs to go, I just move it over there and then delete this file. And that just makes it very simple. I thought that was a brilliant trick and it's, you know, the whole where are my images thing becomes a major issue. And that really solves that problem pretty quickly. So, it depends for me, how many images I'm working up. If I'm, like this Jaws shoot, this surfing shoot, where I shot 9,000 images. So far I've worked up about 200 of those images. And for each individual image, after I've worked it up in Lightroom, not necessarily gonna sit there and go open as smart object in Photoshop for each image and wait for that to happen. I'm probably gonna select all the images I've worked up cause I'll take them as far as I can in Lightroom, then I'll export them, then I'll close Lightroom, then I'll concentrate on Photoshop. Cause typically, if it's onesie twosies or a small number of images I may actually go between Photoshop and Lightroom and do it that way, it just depends on what I'm doing. But just having shown you all the options, you have any choice you want.

Class Materials

Bonus Materials with Purchase

Workflow Outline

Bonus Materials with RSVP

The Professional Photographers Digital Workflow Ebook Sample

buy this class

$00

Buy Class

Sale Ends Soon!

starting under

$13/month*

Unlock this classplus 2000+ more >

79.7K Students

99% Recommend this Class

00 Student Work

0 Video lessons in HD
00h 00m of class content
Exclusive bonus content
Lifetime access, anywhere, anytime
Streaming access on desktop and mobile browsers
Download and offline access with class purchase
Offline sync with our iPhone & iPad apps
100% satisfaction guarantee

Michael Clark

Michael Clark is an internationally published outdoor photographer specializing in adventure sports, travel, and landscape photography. He produces intense, raw images of athletes pushing their sports to the limit and has risked life and limb on a variety of assignments to bring back stunning images of rock climbers, mountaineers, kayakers, big-wave surfers and mountain bikers in remote locations around the world.

SEE INSTRUCTOR'S CLASSES

topics covered in this class

Business Adobe Lightroom Adobe Photoshop Photo Editing

Ratings and Reviews

a Creativelive Student

Michael is a true professional and readily explains all of the nitty gritty issues of a photographer's digital workflow, including important things like Color Management, Lightroom workflows, Printing, and more. He is eager to answer your questions and has a thorough knowledge (after all, he worked with the original engineers at Adobe and wrote a book on it) and passion that he loves to share. He can get way deep into the subject, which I found fascinating. You can tell Michael has great experience in teaching and also likes to learn from his students. He is very authentic, honest, and direct. I highly recommend this class, and look forward to another one of Michael's courses in the future!

a Creativelive Student

This is an excellent course. It reinforced what I already knew and enhanced my spotty skills with new knowledge. I really like Michael's explanation of saving the document for print and web and the importance of doing these differently. Using the histogram to show this was terrific. Each session there is some valuable gem.

Elizabeth Harrigan

This class is fantastic and is just what I was looking for! The teacher knows the subject WELL and he makes it understandable and easy to follow along. In each segment, he gets right to the point explaining just enough content to make it understandable. He doesn't waste your time. I highly recommend this class. It's the best tech class I have watched on Creative Live.

2,000+ classes ranging from fundamentals to advanced techniques.

Lightroom® to Photoshop® Workflow

Lightroom® to Photoshop® Workflow

Lesson Info

27. Lightroom® to Photoshop® Workflow

Lessons

Class Introduction

Shooting Workflow: Set-up The Camera

Shooting Workflow: Histograms and Exposure

Shooting Workflow: Sensor Cleaning

Overview of Color Management

Color Management: Monitor

Color Management: Workspace

Color Management: Monitor Calibration

Color Management: Do I Need This?

Introduction to Lightroom®

Download & Import Images With Lightroom®

Lightroom® Preferences

Six Ways to Speed-up Lightroom®

To DNG or Not to DNG?

A Logical Editing Process in Lightroom®

File & Folder Naming in Lightroom®

Batch Renaming in Lightroom®

Entering Metadata in Lightroom®

Managing Images in Lightroom®

Introduction to the Develop Module in Lightroom®

Lightroom® Develop Module

Sharpening, Chromatic Aberration & Vignetting in Lightroom®

Graduated Filters & Spot Tool in Lightroom®

Converting images to Black & White in Lightroom®

Creating Panoramas in Lightroom

Creating HDR Images in Lightroom®