Graphics Programs Reference
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Delete: remove the published folder from the service.
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Publish Now: updates all items in the folder according to the settings saved in the
publish service.
Mark to Republish: indicates that all items in the published folder need to be re-
published; this could be done manually or when initiating a publish update from
the parent service.
Go to Published Folder: in the case of Hard Drive services, this will show the
folder in Finder or Explorer.
Import Smart Collection Settings: allows you to import settings from a smart
collection (see Chapter 3) as the criteria for a smart publish folder.
Lightroom integration with other programs
In most cases, Lightroom plays nicely with other image editing programs.
h e important thing to keep in mind is that Lightroom's metadata (including
adjustments) will typically need to be preserved when going back and forth
between Lightroom and another application.
For example, if you have a photo in your Lightroom catalog, and then
make changes to it using Adobe Camera Raw or Bridge, Lightroom will not
automatically rel ect the updates. As described in Chapters 3 and 4, Lightroom
of ers the ability to read and write metadata to and from the catalog, but this is
something you must do manually. Lightroom will let you know about metadata
status conl icts and you can decide whether to read in the updated metadata from
the i le on disk, or overwrite it with the metadata from the Lightroom catalog.
Lightroom's use of industry-standard xmp and ipt c metadata ensures that
other sot ware can recognize that information and will show the same data as
Lightroom.
EXTERNAL EDITORS
In addition to reading and writing metadata between applications, there will also
be situations in which you have processed as far as you can in Lightroom and
want to continue working with the photo in another program. Below are a few
typical scenarios where you will want to take photos out of Lightroom and into
other sot ware:
hdr (H igh Dynamic Range) imaging: you can use Photoshop or other
sot ware such as Photomatix to blend exposures for hdr. T o do it in
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