Lynda - Using Lightroom And Photoshop Together

By combining Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop, you can take full advantage of each program's capabilities. Use Lightroom for photo organizing, sharing, and basic image enhancement. When you need more advanced retouching and editing features, one click sends a photo from Lightroom to Photoshop.

In this course, photographer and author Jan Kabili shows how to combine both programs. The course begins with details on how to set up the two programs for maximum compatibility. The course then covers strategies for working with photos in a variety of formats, sending them from Lightroom to Photoshop to viewing the edited results in Lightroom. The final chapter demonstrates several real-world scenarios for using Lightroom and Photoshop together.

Topics include:

Setting the Lightroom preferences for editing in Photoshop

Passing photos from Lightroom to Photoshop

Handling software version mismatches

Viewing and organizing Photoshop-edited photos in Lightroom

Creating Lightroom presets for external editing

Using Lightroom with Photoshop Elements

Building a panorama with Lightroom and Photoshop

Passing multiple photos to Photoshop for compositing

Sending photos to Photoshop for retouching and removing content

Bringing photos into Photoshop to add text and graphics.