Lightroom Photoshop For Mac
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lightroom-classic gives you all the desktop editing tools you need to bring out the best in your photos. Punch up colors, make dull-looking shots vibrant, remove distracting objects, and straighten skewed shots. Easily organize all your photos on your desktop and share them in a variety of ways.
But my macbook is quite slow so I've been trialling having both apps saved on an external harddrive until I can get an upgrade. My lightroom and photoshop can't seem to find each other being on an external hard drive, which is understandable.
So I've considered whether I should export all my photos (originally RAWs) from lightroom to jpg, then open them in photoshop as jpgs to do the final touches before resaving from photoshop. I feel like the process might also be faster? It's painfully slow opening them all from lightroom and back again.
So long story short - will it produce the same result going between lightroom and photoshop and back again with the .tif files, as if I export my lightroom photos as jpgs and then open them in photoshop to do final touches??
This is not where you save disk space. The installation files only take a couple of GB, nothing in the bigger picture. And a lot of the installation will go to your system drive regardless! Much if it will be under your user account, and you can't move that.
Here's a good rule of thumb: your operating system and a "standard" range of applications should not take up much more than 100 GB or so. If it does, start cleaning up. The user account tends to collect and accumulate various stuff from all your applications, and it is usually not removed automatically on the assumption you "might" need it in the future. But if you find folders from old applications you no longer have, delete them.
I'm on Windows myself, but there should be utilities for Mac that show you exactly what's filling up your drives and exactly where it is. Here's a screenshot from the Windows WinDirStat, just to show you how it can look. I can't recall what the Mac equivalent is called.
If you want to export from LR and edit the exported file in PS, export as 16-bit Tiff, that can withstand heavy editing without any quality loss. You can optionally use ZIP compression when saving, which is also lossless.
Posted above are screen shots taken from my iMac. The first image is how the color looks in Lightroom, the second is what it looks like when edited in Photoshop from Lightroom. My color profile for RGB is set to ProPhotoRGB. I've done a lot of searching for answers, but I can't seem to find any sort of agreement as to how I should set up color in Photoshop. I've also tried to go through my Mac's color settings, but the options are pretty overwhelming.
EDIT - Additional Info: Opening the raw image in Mac Preview or viewing it in the OS preview, the image looks as it does in Lightroom. Viewing the raw image preview in Bridge, the colors look like they do in Photoshop, as does opening the raw image in Photoshop Raw.
EDIT 2: Photoshop is definitely making color changes. If I simply select Edit In Photoshop, and then save the image without making ANY changes at all in Photoshop, the edited tif takes on the color difference anyway.
There is a lot of bad information on color settings in Photoshop and Lightroom indeed. For now, the only thing that really matters is that in Photoshop, you open the Color Settings dialog (It is in the Edit menu). In there in the color management policies area make sure you set all three (RGB, CMYK, and Gray) to "Preserve Embedded Profiles". Then uncheck the two profile mismatch warning checkboxes below that. If you do just this, you will get good transfer from Lightroom to Photoshop.
The settings inside Lightroom are not so important but in general in Lightroom's Preferences->External editing, it is best to set the file format to TIFF, the color space to prophotoRGB, the bit depth to 16, and the compression to ZIP. The resolution setting is completely unimportant here. Ultimately the settings here don't matter that much but the aforementioned (which are the defaults) should guarantee optimal quality.
Now the question is: "when does the color change". It is not entirely clear from your post. If it changes right when the image is opened in Photoshop, something completely different is going on then when you open in photoshop, where the file looks normal and now when you save from Photoshop, the new file suddenly looks different in Lightroom. It sounds like the latter is what you have.
If these settings are what you have and you get different color after just opening in Photoshop and simply saving from there, Lightroom is applying a preset to the tif when it comes back into Lightroom. Check the Develop settings on these files in Lightroom. Is anything set to non-zero? If so you might have set a default inadvertently for these sort of files. In preferences->Presets, hit the button "reset all default develop settings". Then on an image that came back into Lightroom with wrong colors, hit reset in Develop. Almost all sliders should zero out and you should get identical color to the original in Lightroom.
Mike, I must have missed your post. It sounds like the Lightroom settings are not transferring to Photoshop since if you directly open the raw you see the same thing as when you do an "edit in Photoshop". Since when you directly open the raw in bridge or in camera raw, it knows nothing about the setting changes in Lightroom. This might be caused by a version mismatch between Lightroom and Photoshop. What versions do you have installed? Please give us exact version from the system info menu items in both Lightroom and Photoshop (in Help menu).
It's also possible that you are dealing with a display calibration issue. The solution to that is to recalibrate your display. This is done using calibration hardware and is essential for doing digital photography.
They said there was no manual way to set this, so it has to be done everytime you bring a photo into photoshop from lightroom. Not sure why the change with the new photoshop 2019 update - sucks but I guess this is the only way for now.
This is the problem I'm having - colors don't match up when bringing a photo over from lightroom to photoshop. My color profiles in both were set originally to Prophoto RGB but the Adobe Tech changed those with remote access on my comp. Help? I have tried the steps ahead posted by Jao VDL on checking color sett
I see from one of your screenshots that you are running Lightroom CC 2015, which is two versions out of date. The current version is Lightroom Classic 8.1, which uses the same Camera Raw version as Photoshop CC 2019. (version 20.01)
Wow, that is completely nonsensical advice from Adobe. You should NEVER have to assign a profile to an image coming into Photoshop if your color management settings in Photoshop are correct because they will always come in with the correct profile.
So You can save the image to anyplace you want on your drive. Preferable a folder that normally is used with lightroom. Ex. create a folder called graphics. Then in lightroom you use file>import to select that folder.
Now every time you add any images to that folder, all you need to do is sync that folder in lightroom and it will add those images. Syncing will also remove any images from the database that are no longer in that folder. So it works both ways to make sure the folder and the database are mirrored hence the name sync.
A bit of caution though, when you edit images in lightroom that edit is stored in the database not the file. So you need to select that image(s) more than one image can be saved at once and save. ctrl-s(windows) cmd-s(mac)
It does answer the question and you do misunderstand how Lightroom works. Images are never "in" Lightroom - they are out there on the disk and the Lightroom catalog keeps track of where, by importing the files.
Now. Here's what you're specifically looking for: If you "edit in" Photoshop from Lightroom, and you then save the file from Photoshop, Lightroom will continue to track the file and automatically add it to the catalog. For this to work, Lightroom has to remain open throughout the process.
One other thing to add though - if all you want from Lightroom is the adjustments - then you can just select all layers, Convert for Smart Filters and use Filter Camera Raw within Photoshop. You get the same adjustments with no need to open Lightroom at all.
No hes not misuderstanding (Abuse removed by moderator). His question is very simple. How do you take something created in photoshop and move it over to Lightroom? For example when creating a contact sheet and altering photos... Just answer the question or don't say anytthing at all.
However, to answer your question, you don't move a file to Lightroom. Instead, in Photoshop just save the image to disk, then go to Lightroom and import it. That will add it to the catalogue.
Thanks Johnnie! I was checking this question and saw how irrelevant the answers were! After all those called 'professional' seem to know but the catalogue and don't improvise to know what people mean! Hey professionals, Adobe is about creativity, don't limit your mindsets to shortsighted instructions! Although the question was so easy: "Is there a way to send an image you are editing in Photoshop to complete editing in Lightroom" we know there is the possibility to go vice versa (from Photoshop to LR) but the LR to PS is not yet possible, I hope Adobe can provide this function..
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