Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
Step 15:
Now we're done editing in Photoshop and
it's time to send this image back to Light-
room. There are just two super-simple
things you need to do to get this image
back to Lightroom: press
Command-S
(PC: Ctrl-S)
to Save the image, then simply
close it (press
Command-W
on a Mac, or
Ctrl-W
on a PC to close the document
window). That's it. Don't do anything else—
don't choose Save As, don't change the
name, just Save and Close. That's it. Once
you do that, when you go to the Library
module's Grid view to look at your thumb-
nails, you'll see that your new copy is found
right beside the original (as shown here).
Step 16:
Now that your photo is back in Lightroom,
you can treat it like any other image, and
in this case, we want to darken the keys
on the keyboard a bit, so switch to the
Develop module, click on the Adjustment
Brush, then choose
Exposure
from the
Effect pop-up menu (so all the sliders get
reset to 0). Click-and-drag the Exposure
slider to the left to -0.99, then take the
Adjustment Brush and paint over just the
keyboard area to darken it in (as shown
here), which creates the final image.
TIP: Saving Your Layers
If you have multiple layers (like we did
with this image), and you save and close
the document without flattening it first,
Lightroom keeps all those layers intact
(Lightroom doesn't let you work in layers,
though). What you see looks like a flat-
tened image, but there is a trick that lets
you reopen this image in Photoshop with
all the layers still there. When you click
on the layered image in Lightroom and
press Command-E (PC: Ctrl-E) to open
it in Photoshop, when that little dialog
appears asking you if you want to edit a
copy with your Lightroom changes, with-
out, or edit the original, you need to
choose
Edit Original
. It's the only time
I ever open the original.
