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[Getting started with Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 4]
[Julieanne Kost - Senior Digital Imaging Evangelist]
Hello and welcome. My name is Julieanne Kost.
In the next few minutes we're going to take a look at how Lightroom and Photoshop work together.
I'm going to assume that you've made all of the changes
that you want to your individual file, and now it's time
to take that image farther by taking it into Photoshop.
There's a variety of reasons you might want to layer more than one image together,
or you might need to do some retouching or maybe some head swapping in a family portrait.
Before we just jump to Photoshop, let's take a look at the preferences in Lightroom
so that we know what kind of file Lightroom is going to build.
Underneath the Lightroom menu, I'll go down to preferences.
If you're on Windows, you'd go into the Edit menu and then select your preferences.
I'm going to click on the external editing preferences.
You can see that these are the default settings when you decide to edit in.
I've told Lightroom that I want it to hand off a PSD file.
I could choose TIF, but in this case I'll select PSD.
I want it to be in Adobe RGB 1998 color space,
and I want it to be 16 bits at 300 pixels per inch.
You can modify these to whatever you want, just know that these will be default settings.
Now, in a minute we're going to come back and talk about the rest of the settings in here,
but for now I'll close this and then choose "Photo," "Edit In,"
or I could use the keyboard shortcut--command or control e.
That will edit this image in Photoshop.
Now, currently the version of Camera Raw in Lightroom is a little ahead of the one in Photoshop,
but I still want to open this, so I'll click "Open" anyway.
We can see that Lightroom opened up or handed off to Photoshop a 16-bit image.
Down here we can check and see that it is in the Adobe RGB 1998 color space.
That's great.
Now, what I'm going to do is I'm going to make a very drastic change to the image.
I'm just going to invert it by using Cmd-I or Ctrl-I in windows.
I just want to make sure that we can tell the difference between our original and this PSD file.
But the odd thing is that it doesn't tell me that it's a PSD file yet.
It tells me it's a DNG file, because Lightroom has handed off this image,
this photograph, to Photoshop,but it hasn't save it to the disk yet,
which is a really good thing, because sometimes you might want to open
3 or 4 images at a time in Photoshop in order
decide which ones you're going to work with or composite together.
A lot of times I close a lot of those images, and I don't need those files rendered,
so I don't really want Lightroom to save those files.
I just want it to hand off to Photoshop.
I'll use the ones I want, and then save them.
In this case, I've made my change here. Let's save it by just using command or control s.
Because I started with a raw file, I know I'm not going to save over my original file.
If I was starting with a JEPG file, then when I said "Edit in Photoshop,"
Lightroom would have provided a dialogue box asking me
if I wanted to open a copy with the Lightroom adjustments.
Well, certainly, I went through all that trouble to make those adjustments in Lightroom,
so I would select that option and Lightroom would then change the name,
and it's opening a copy so I don't have to worry about saving over the original.
I'll go ahead and do a command or control S in order to save this file.
As soon as I do that, then Photoshop writes it to the disk.
You can see it's now a PSD file.
It's added this "_me,"
and that's a custom file naming convention that I've created,
and I'll show you how I did that in a minute.
For now, let's simply close this.
We'll return back to Lightroom, and you can see here's my original DNG file,
and here is that PSD file.
Because I started in Lightroom and I said "edit in"--I saved the file in Photoshop when I was finished--
Lightroom can keep track of that work flow,
and so it automatically imported that file--not only into the Lightroom catalog,
but also into this collection that I was working in.
Now let's go back to those preferences for a minute,
because sometimes you might want to take your images over to Photoshop like we just did--
a 16-bit image in Adobe 1998.
But other times maybe you want different settings.
In order to create presets, you simply choose the application.
In this case, I would click "Choose" and choose Photoshop,
because that's what I want to open the files into with this preset.
Then I would select the file format.
I'll choose PSD again, but this time I'm going to choose sRGB from my color space and 8-bit for my bit depth.
Then where it says "Preset," I'll save this as a new preset.
I'll call it PSD, sRGB, and 8 bit.
Then I'll click 'create."
Now, before we take a look at where that preset appears
Let's also look at the other options.
There is a option to stack with original,
which means that when you bring the image back into Lightroom
those images will automatically be stacked on top of each other.
There's an option to rename your files when you bring the files over to Photoshop.
What I did was I just went in and edited the preset here,
and I left the file name the same, but I told Lightroom to just append that with an "_me."
The reason that I had an "me-2" after it in the example that I showed you
was because it was the second time that I'd opened that file,
and it remembered that it had already opened that other image and made a copy of it.
Now that I've got my file naming convention here,
and I've set my stack with original actually to "off," because I don't care for that.
I like to see them both next to each other as opposed to hiding one behind the other.
We've made our preset. Let's go ahead and close this.
Now watch what happens if I select my original DNG file again
and I right mouse click and say "Edit In,"
I now have a new option here, which is that preset.
I could go ahead and use that present to open this in Photoshop with these settings.
Of course, I could also use a different external editor, right?
I could set this up if I wanted to take my image from Lightroom into Painter
and create maybe a more painterly effect.
I could set that up as my preset as my external editor.
So that's great when I'm working with maybe just 1 or 2 images.
But what if I'm done with 50 images,
and I want to take them into Photoshop or I want to hand them off to someone
who's going to do the retouching for me?
When I have a large number of images, I would want to select those images.
Let's go, maybe, to my develop module collection, select all,
and then I would click "Export."
In the Export module, now I've got a ton
of options for how I want to save or export these images.
I can select the "Export location."
In this case, it would be interesting--I could export
them to the same folder as the original photo,
but remember, this is a collection of images.
I would have each image being saved back to maybe a different folder
that may or may not be what I want.
I can change this and say, no, let's pick a specific folder.
Then I can choose the folder that I want to save to.
In this case, let's go ahead and save them into my 2011, into Ireland.
Let's make a new folder, and we'll call this "Export PSD."
I'll choose create and then choose,
and I have the option now to add these images back into the catalog.
After exporting, if you want to see those images again, add them to the catalog.
If you're exporting them and you're going to hand them off to someone
and you don't need them in your catalog, then you could uncheck this.
But for now let's go ahead and add this to the catalog.
As far as the existing files, this has to do with renaming.
I would just prompt it to ask you what you want to do
if you were renaming the files the same name as the original.
It probably won't happen, but just in case, I want it to ask me.
As far as file naming, we could rename the files on export.
Right here I also might want to choose that master-edited option
that set up in the preset, or we could change it to anything we want.
If I had video, I could include video files but I don't.
As far as file settings go, here's where I would select my PSD.
I'd select my color space.
Let's say in this case we want to go to sRGB in 8 bit.
I can also resize these images.
Maybe I don't need to send them the full res.
Maybe instead I could go in and pick the long edge--
maybe the longest edge either horizontally or vertically might be 8 inches.
I'll choose that and the resolution.
I can also choose to add output sharpening.
Now, if I am going to have someone retouch these images
or if I'm going to do a lot of work in Photoshop,
I probably don't want to sharpen now, but if I was going
to export all of these and send them directly to my lab,
then I might want to go ahead and sharpen them for whatever paper type I'm printing to.
For now, I'll leave that off.
Under "Metadata," I want to include at least my copyright and contact information.
The reason that you might narrow this down is if you are exporting
and you're going to put the images on the web, you might want to make that file
as small as possible.
So you might not want to include all of that metadata,
but I definitely want the copyright and contact information.
I can add a watermark if I want to, which would be like an overlay of my logo,
but for now I'm not going to because I'm going to do more editing on these.
Then under "Post Processing" for now I'll do nothing,
but I could actually show those images in the finder.
I could open them up in Photoshop. I could open them in a different application.
Then you'll notice I have some other options, but that's a little bit more advanced.
You can actually create an action in Photoshop, turn it into a droplet,
then when you're done exporting your files from Lightroom,
you can automatically have Photoshop launch and run that action on those files.
I have another video on that, so we're not going to cover it now.
Once you've got all of these options set up,
you should definitely add a preset if you think you're going to use these options again.
I would click "add," and we can put this in a new folder,
and we'll call this just my demo folder for now.
Now, we can name the preset.
In this case I would probably want to make sure that I know the settings.
For example, that I'm exporting to PSD, that it's in the sRGB workspace,
that it has an 8-inch-long edge, and that it's 300 pixels per inch.
Use the naming convention that makes sense to you.
Then click "Create," and you can see that preset that has been created right here.
Then we would just simply click "Export," and it would export all of those files with all of those settings.
Before I click "Export" I just want to also point out up here at the top
where it says "Export To" we can export to email. This is kind of interesting.
What it does is it kind of forces you to use JPEG as the file format.
We can export to a CD or a DVD, and we also choose to export to Adobe Revel.
If you're using Revel on your cell phone or on your tablet device,
you can very quickly take the images that you've worked on in Lightroom
and export them into your carousel so that you can share them with other people.
Okay, for now I'm not going to take the time to export the files, so I'll hit cancel,
because I just want to talk about 3 other options.
Let's switch to another folder for this.
I'm going to select this whole range of images right here. This is a panorama.
Well, you'll notice if you right mouse click and you choose "Edit In,"
as soon as you have more than 1 file selected,
You have these other options down here.
For example, I could merge the panorama in Photoshop
in which case Lightroom would take these images, hand them off to Photoshop,
and it would apply of the changes that you made in Lightroom,
including all of your lenses correction and then make that panorama in Photoshop.
You can see--I'm not going to take the time to do it--
but Photoshop creates the panorama and reimports it back into Lightroom.
Going back to grid view, I have these 3 different exposures of the same scene.
If I right mouse click and say "Edit In,"
you'll notice that I can also merge these to HDR Pro in Photoshop.
Or, if I wanted to merge together maybe two different files like this first one and this one,
if I want to put them into the same file in Photoshop--
so take two photos and put it into a single Photoshop document--
then I can choose "Edit In" and we can open it as layers in Photoshop.
Finally, the last option is to open as a smart object in Photoshop,
and smart objects are fantastic,because they give you a ton of flexibility.
What this option does is it actually opens the files into Photoshop,
but what it does is it embeds the entire raw file, if you're starting with a raw file,
it embeds that whole raw file into the Photoshop or the PSD file.
It's kind of like the PSD file becomes the candy wrapper and holds all that raw data.
If you change you mind while you're working on that file,
like you might want to change it to gray-scale or you want to change the color temperature,
all you'd have to do is double-click on the smart object in Photoshop,
and it would actually bring up the Camera Raw technology--
same technology that is in Lightroom--it would bring up that technology in Photoshop,
and you could make those changes, and it would be completely nondestructive.
So there are additional videos that talk all about smart objects,
but I did just want to mention that because it is a very, very cool feature.
Well, there's a quick look at some of the different ways that you take your images
from Lightroom to Photoshop and continue working on them from there.
My name is Julieanne Kost. Thanks for watching.
[Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 4]
[Crew: Kush Amerasinghe, Erik Espera, Karl Miller. Presenter: Julieanne Kost]
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