Passenger Seat: Creating a Photographic Project from Conception through Execution in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom

Chapter 29. Opening Files into Photoshop

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.

—GUSTAVE COURBET

Adobe Photoshop is incredibly powerful image editing software that excels at a vast number of post-processing tasks, including retouching, image transformations, multi-image compositing, masking, typography, painting, vector shapes, even 3D texture mapping. A few years ago, I would have started in Adobe Bridge to organize my images, made changes to RAW files in Adobe Camera Raw (ACR), and then progressed into Photoshop to make use of its extended toolkit. In fact, for certain design projects, I still do use the Bridge to ACR to Photoshop workflow when I need to work with additional file types ...