Now in this video, I just like to look at how easily we can integrate Photoshop with our Lightroom workflow because occasionally, there's some little things that Photoshop can do that Lightroom sort of can't. So here's an example. So I'm just going to start with this image, here it is in its raw format, and no adjustments, and we're going to have a little bit of a play to try and get something a little bit more appealing out of it. So let's start with the biggest problem, this big featured rock here in the middle, maybe we want to raise the shadows to get a little bit more detail out of that. That looks pretty nice, but the image looks a little, maybe we'll pull the highlights down a bit as well. That's a good start.

But the image of course, looks very flat, so maybe we'll add some contrast. And we want to be careful not to plug that rock up too much with contrast, and maybe a little bit of clarity will bring out its detail a little bit more, maybe I can just raise the white point up a little bit more there. According to the histogram, the colors are looking pretty dull. Maybe a little bit of saturation is what it needs. Maybe went too far on the contrast there, I think I might just back that off a little bit, maybe we're looking a little bit green, could I just nudge a little bit of grain out of the white balance just there. And let's say before, after before, after, things are looking a little bit better there, maybe I could just take those shadows up a little bit more, that's nice there.

And it's a little bit it's kind of light on the left hand side here, isn't it, I'll show you a nice little subtle use of the graduated filter, just going to reset that and I'm just going to pull the exposure down slightly about a third of a stop. And I'm just going to drag that into stasis and subtly, they're just to sort of clean up that slightly lightened edge there. And I might even just grab the brush and put it in a rise mode and just remove any of that darkening of applied to my big face should rock there because we didn't want that so much. And come out of there and maybe a little bit of fibrous for the blues. Still not going to be great, isn't it, let's just go a little touch more towards magenta. And maybe they're this little kind of red things sticking it's nice in the shop there might just come down with my Spot Removal Tool and just give that a little bit of a click there to get rid of it.

And there we go. So before and after, and before and after. So we get the image to this point, and we think we're pretty happy with the results. But our client says, well, gee, it'd be nice if this rock was bigger. We'd like to make this kind of structure a larger, a larger structure because we want people think they can do some good rock climbing here and you think, Oh, that's a bit. That's a bit cheeky, isn't it?

I don't think Lightroom would have a buyer of that sort of thing. But what I do know a program that would say sounds like a job for Photoshop. So because this is a raw file, it's Photoshop is not going to be able to open it so it's gonna need to be processed into RGB and then opened up in Photoshop. So you know, Lightroom preferences here we can see under external editing, it tells you the parameters that this file will be processed into RGB in. So it's going to be processed into the TIFF format, it's going to be processed into the prophoto RGB color space. And it's going to be processed into a 16 bit file.

So this is pretty much the largest, highest resolution highest quality settings possible. And you know, I guess it's probably a good default. To do that. You might as well keep your options open at this stage because you don't know what you're going to do with this image. So whilst I don't normally think working in 16 bit or pro photo is necessary on this instance, I think we might as well keep our options open and keep the file at its maximum quality when we process it into Photoshop. So we'll leave all those settings as they are, and we'll go photo and we'll go editing and edit in Photoshop CC or Command D see the keyboard shortcut there.

He's simply Command A. So by triggering that we jump over to Photoshop. Here we are now in Photoshop. So classic Photoshop operations, step one is going to be duplicate the background layer. So I got Command J. And you can see I've got my layer one duplicate there.

Now, this is not an extensive demonstration of Photoshop features, it's just going to be more showing how Photoshop integrates with Lightroom. So I'm going to grab my quick selection tool just here. And I'm going to make a bit of a selection of the top of the structure here, the rock the mountain, the cost thing, it's a limestone cost, isn't it? I think whenever show with a colada rock seems too small and mountain seems too big, but anyway, well, we know what we're talking about. So now with that selected, I'm going to go down to my content aware Move tool, which I'm going to change from move mode to extend mode already is right now. And now I can grab this structure and just stretch it up a little.

So as I lift it up, you can see it's kind of grind Here. And when I like go, you might see that it's not a perfect join on the edge. But when I click, when I hit Enter other, you'll see the Content Aware component is going to recalculate. And just nicely clean up that edge. So before, after, before and after, and I've extended my structure right there. So how do I get back to Lightroom?

Watch this, I just simply guys save, I got File, Save or Command S, and the file gets saved. And I go close. And then when I go back to Lightroom, here it is the files there before me. So Photoshop has saved it back in the same folder that the original RAW file is I've still got my original RAW file there and affected and here's my Photoshop edited file right next to it. So it's still if I wanted to go back into Photoshop a second time, I can do that very easily. Just go photo edit in Photoshop again, or Command D. This time it asks me Do I want to edit the URL Original Photoshop file, or do I want to edit a copy if I've done some more Lightroom adjustments, so I'm going to say Edit the original.

And this opens the file back up in Lightroom. With its layers still in place, and I can go ahead and I can add any other sort of Photoshop top features I like on this kind of top Lightroom rules down there, and I'm going to position my text just there. And again, I just save and close when I get back to Lightroom the images back there before me. So incorporating Photoshop into your Lightroom workflow is incredibly easy. Lightroom is almost like a Photoshop plugin, really. So we go into Photoshop to do some heavy lifting when required and we're back in Lightroom easy as you like, and now they see me you'll know it's not a negative file, although it's no sorry, it's no longer a raw file, but this now so As on negative it's in maximum quality, large calcifies high bit depth entirely flexible and up for any potential output it we may require.

So that's incorporating Photoshop with your Lightroom workflow as I like to say Lightroom is for image processing and every image needs processing, whereas Photoshop is for image surgery, and not every image needs surgery, but when it does, Photoshop is certainly the your surgeon of choice.