From the course: Photoshop 2024 Essential Training

Opening files from Lightroom Classic - Photoshop Tutorial

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Opening files from Lightroom Classic

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- [Instructor] Let's take a moment to see how easy it is to import the exercise files and open them into Photoshop if you're using Lightroom Classic to manage your files. If you're not using Lightroom Classic, then feel free to skip this video. So first you'll need to download the exercise files, so I've downloaded them to my desktop. Then in Lightroom, we'll want to click to import those files and we'll want to navigate to the exercise files. To import them all at once, we want to be sure to include sub-folders and we'll want to select Add to add these photos in place instead of moving them. Then I'll choose to import the files and as soon as they've been imported, we can view and select the different folders here in the folder panel. Now to open a file in Photoshop, we'll want to select it and then we can choose the photo menu, edit in, and then edit in Photoshop. Or we can use the keyboard shortcut Command E on Mac, Control E on Windows. Depending on the file type, you'll get different results. Because I was working with a DNG file that had had edits made to it in the developed module, Lightroom Classic simply opened that file into Photoshop. At this point, we could add text or additional layers or shapes, and if we were to save it, Photoshop would hand off the saved file to Lightroom, assuming that the Lightroom application was still open and it would be imported automatically into the catalog. But for now, I'm just going to close this without saving it. And let's return to Lightroom Classic. Now here I also have a multi-layered PSD file. If I want to retain the layers when I choose photo and then edit in and edit in Photoshop, I'll want to be sure to choose edit original. If I choose the edit a copy with Lightroom adjustments, this will flatten the file. And because I want access to both the photograph and the type on separate layers, I'll choose edit original, and then select edit. And we can see in the layers panel there's the background and there is the type layer. Alright, I'll close this as well. And then just one note before we wrap up. If you're working with your own images in Lightroom Classic, then you're going to want to take advantage of the develop module in order to make your images look as good as possible before you open them in Photoshop. If however, you're following along using the exercise files provided with the course, we'll simply open the files directly into Photoshop and start working.

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