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<blockquote data-quote="csgaraglino" data-source="post: 575998" data-attributes="member: 42498">Just wanted to post a Thank You to all of you that commented - I was able to take a Lightroom Course Friday Night and this shed quite a bit of light on my &quot;new&quot; workflow. While is was a beginners guide to editing in LR - it did give me enough information to associate what I was doing in NX to the procedure in LR. It also gave me the naming conventions that LR uses that I was not aware - making it easier to understand what you guys were talking about.In short - this is what I learned (in reference to this post):Lightroom for the most part &quot;does not&quot; bake in the edits - except when you use the &quot;Edit In&quot; function and at that point all your edits are baked in and then opened in the corresponding program (Nik, PS, etc) I think as a TIFF (Nik) and a PSD (PS) and when done comes back to LR as a separate image. I learned this is called &quot;round-tripping&quot;. Ok - not the most optimum, but now that I understand what it's doing it's just a matter of separating out all the process that LR does not handle well to the end of my edit workflow. An example would be anything done in Nik or as I learned any big &quot;healing&quot; jobs (seems LR lacks in this dept.).What is disappointing is that any edits done in the alternate programs are not working with the RAW files anymore. I'm not sure how big of a deal that will be - as I am new to this workflow. Another issue is that and edits int he alternate programs will be backed into the image that comes back to LR. I see that with Nik because it works as a filter - but I'm hoping that there may be a way to save the edits in the PSD file, but I have not played enough with this to know yet?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="csgaraglino, post: 575998, member: 42498"] Just wanted to post a Thank You to all of you that commented - I was able to take a Lightroom Course Friday Night and this shed quite a bit of light on my "new" workflow. While is was a beginners guide to editing in LR - it did give me enough information to associate what I was doing in NX to the procedure in LR. It also gave me the naming conventions that LR uses that I was not aware - making it easier to understand what you guys were talking about. In short - this is what I learned (in reference to this post): Lightroom for the most part "does not" bake in the edits - except when you use the "Edit In" function and at that point all your edits are baked in and then opened in the corresponding program (Nik, PS, etc) I think as a TIFF (Nik) and a PSD (PS) and when done comes back to LR as a separate image. I learned this is called "round-tripping". Ok - not the most optimum, but now that I understand what it's doing it's just a matter of separating out all the process that LR does not handle well to the end of my edit workflow. An example would be anything done in Nik or as I learned any big "healing" jobs (seems LR lacks in this dept.). What is disappointing is that any edits done in the alternate programs are not working with the RAW files anymore. I'm not sure how big of a deal that will be - as I am new to this workflow. Another issue is that and edits int he alternate programs will be backed into the image that comes back to LR. I see that with Nik because it works as a filter - but I'm hoping that there may be a way to save the edits in the PSD file, but I have not played enough with this to know yet? [/QUOTE]

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