Chapter 9. The Photoshop connection

How to get Lightroom and Photoshop to work together in harmony

The best way to view the Lightroom/Photoshop relationship is to see Lightroom as a program for managing and processing lots of images in a catalog and Photoshop as the program where you spend more time working on the individual photographs one at a time.

Although there is a fair amount of overlap between Photoshop, Camera Raw, and Lightroom, it is clear that Photoshop will remain the program of choice for retouching and layered image editing. The question then is, what is the most efficient way to work between these two programs? In this chapter I show you some of the various ways to take photographs from Lightroom and edit them in Photoshop, as well ...

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