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<blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 170007" data-attributes="member: 9240">I do shoot RAW.&nbsp; Do I always use PS?&nbsp; Not by a rule.&nbsp; I was a Lightroom-Only guy for most of the last 2 years.&nbsp; That said, depending on what I want to do with the photo I will use Photoshop, either to invoke the Nik Plug-ins (I like the flexibility to use Smart Layers in PS so I can go back and tweak when I stack plug-ins) or to do corrections that are easier/better done there (spot removal and smart fill, which I used in a couple of these to remove a stray branch that otherwise detracted from the photo.&nbsp; I do all my RAW preprocessing in Lightroom first, plus lens profile correction, cropping, straightening, white balance correction, etc., and then send it to Photoshop to do the rest, if necessary.&nbsp; It works well for me.&nbsp; When I get the PSD file back, depending on the level of work and size of the file I will either stack it as a group with the original RAW file, or delete the RAW file (which has been archived elsewhere) since I have the Lightroom processed version as the base layer in my PSD file.&nbsp; The more radical the tweaking in PS, the more apt I am to keep the original around.&nbsp; With D800 files, Photoshop files with Smart Layers can get very big, very quickly, so if I'm happy with the edit I may also collapse a couple visible layers to reduce the overall size (a 40MB D800 RAW file can become 1 Gig rather quickly with Smart Layers).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BackdoorArts, post: 170007, member: 9240"] I do shoot RAW. Do I [I]always[/I] use PS? Not by a rule. I was a Lightroom-Only guy for most of the last 2 years. That said, depending on what I want to do with the photo I will use Photoshop, either to invoke the Nik Plug-ins (I like the flexibility to use Smart Layers in PS so I can go back and tweak when I stack plug-ins) or to do corrections that are easier/better done there (spot removal and smart fill, which I used in a couple of these to remove a stray branch that otherwise detracted from the photo. I do all my RAW preprocessing in Lightroom first, plus lens profile correction, cropping, straightening, white balance correction, etc., and then send it to Photoshop to do the rest, if necessary. It works well for me. When I get the PSD file back, depending on the level of work and size of the file I will either stack it as a group with the original RAW file, or delete the RAW file (which has been archived elsewhere) since I have the Lightroom processed version as the base layer in my PSD file. The more radical the tweaking in PS, the more apt I am to keep the original around. With D800 files, Photoshop files with Smart Layers can get [I]very big, very quickly[/I], so if I'm happy with the edit I may also collapse a couple visible layers to reduce the overall size (a 40MB D800 RAW file can become 1 Gig rather quickly with Smart Layers). [/QUOTE]

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