Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
While Lightroom is great for organizing your photos, processing your images,
making slide shows, and printing, it's not Photoshop. Lightroom doesn't do
special effects or major photo retouching; there are no layers, no filters, or many
of the bazillion (yes, bazillion) things that Photoshop does. So, there will be times
during your workflow where you'll need to jump over to Photoshop to do
some “Photoshop stuff” and then jump back to Lightroom for printing
or presenting. Luckily, these two applications were born to work together.
Step One:
In this project, we're going to remove
our football player from this background
and put him on an entirely different one
(compositing images is something you
need to jump to Photoshop for), but I do
as much as I can here in Lightroom before
I jump over to Photoshop. Start by adding
some Contrast and Clarity, so take the
image over to the Develop module and
increase the Contrast to +48. The high-
lights are getting pretty bright, so lower
the Highlights slider to -30. To bring out
detail in the shadows, drag the Shadows
slider over to +37. Finally, increase the
Clarity to +72 to accentuate the texture,
and then lower the Vibrance a little bit,
so these tweaked colors don't look too
vibrant. I also ended up decreasing the
Exposure just a bit.
Step Two:
Go under the Photo menu, under Edit In,
and choose
Edit in Adobe Photoshop
(as
shown here), or just press
Command-E
(PC: Ctrl-E)
. If you took the shot in RAW,
it just “loans” Photoshop a copy of the
image and opens it. However, if you shot
in JPEG or TIFF mode, this brings up the
Edit Photo with Adobe Photoshop dialog,
where you choose (1) to have a copy of
your original photo sent to Photoshop,
with all the changes and edits you made
in Lightroom applied to it, (2) to have
Lightroom make a copy of your original
untouched photo and send that to Photo-
shop, or (3) to edit your original JPEG or
TIFF in Photoshop without any of the
changes you've made thus far in Lightroom.
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