6. Lightroom–Photoshop Round Trip Workflow

Lesson overview

This may be the most important lesson in this book because it covers the mechanics of a typical round trip workflow between Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic and Adobe Photoshop. It teaches you how to adjust settings in both programs to ensure you pass the highest-quality files between the two. You’ll learn how to send files from Lightroom to Photoshop in a variety of formats and then reopen the edited files in Lightroom.

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to:

  • Configure the Lightroom External Editing preferences and the Photoshop Maximize Compatibility preference.

  • Match the Photoshop color settings to those in Lightroom.

  • Keep Lightroom in sync with the Photoshop Camera Raw plug-in.

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