6 Lightroom–Photoshop Roundtrip Workflow

Lesson overview

This may be the most important lesson in this book because it covers the mechanics of a typical roundtrip workflow between Lightroom and 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 Lightroom’s External Editing preferences and Photoshop’s Maximize Compatibility preference.

  • Match Photoshop’s color settings to Lightroom’s.

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

  • Send a raw file or JPEG from Lightroom to Photoshop, ...

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