7. Exporting from Lightroom

How to export files from Lightroom and work in harmony with Photoshop

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Photograph: Kelly @ Nevs Models. Makeup by Camilla Pascucci. Hair by Brian Gallagher. Clothes styling: Harriet Cotterill © Martin Evening 2009 Canon EOS 1Ds Mk III | 50 mm | 100 ISO | f11.0 @ 1/125th

The best way to understand the Lightroom/Photoshop relationship is to think of Lightroom as a program for managing and processing lots of images contained in a catalog and regard Photoshop as a program for retouching individual photographs.

Although there is a fair amount of overlap between Photoshop, Camera Raw, and Lightroom, it is clear that Photoshop ...

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