Photoshop question

richnmib

Senior Member
So I subscribed to the creative cloud and have been messing around with Photoshop. Am I missing something as it does not save my metadata like Lightroom did.
 
I think it depends on how you save it. I generally start in Lightroom and do most of the basic edits. Then if there are additional edits I want to make the Photoshop is needed for then I right click on click on "Edit in Photoshop" that will then open the photo in PS and I can then do what I want there and then I make sure to flatten the image and then just click "Save" not "save as" Save will save the photo and send it back to Lightroom so it has the finished version there. Then you can publish the photo or what ever you want to do with it. All EXIF data is saved and embedded like it is supposed to be.
 

Blacktop

Senior Member
I think it depends on how you save it. I generally start in Lightroom and do most of the basic edits. Then if there are additional edits I want to make the Photoshop is needed for then I right click on click on "Edit in Photoshop" that will then open the photo in PS and I can then do what I want there and then I make sure to flatten the image and then just click "Save" not "save as" Save will save the photo and send it back to Lightroom so it has the finished version there. Then you can publish the photo or what ever you want to do with it. All EXIF data is saved and embedded like it is supposed to be.

That is how I do it as well, with a few other steps that take me to other programs like NIK, but I always start and end up back in LR.
 

RocketCowboy

Senior Member
That is how I do it as well, with a few other steps that take me to other programs like NIK, but I always start and end up back in LR.

When getting into Nik, are you going from LR to Nik, or LR to PS to Nik and back again?

Just curious since Nik and Topaz both add-in to both LR and PS, so curious how workflows that use both Adobe tools usually dive into these 3rd party tools.


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When getting into Nik, are you going from LR to Nik, or LR to PS to Nik and back again?

Just curious since Nik and Topaz both add-in to both LR and PS, so curious how workflows that use both Adobe tools usually dive into these 3rd party tools.


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When I use NIK it all depends on what else I want to do. If I am just going to use 1 thing like Vivesa I will use the "Edit in Vivesa" option in LR. If I know I am going to do several things like more than 1 NIK tool and maybe remove something in PS I will just use "Edit in PS" option and then do everything in PS I need to do before saving it back to LR. I get a lot less extra files that way. To me it it just a little cleaner.
 

Blacktop

Senior Member
When getting into Nik, are you going from LR to Nik, or LR to PS to Nik and back again?

Just curious since Nik and Topaz both add-in to both LR and PS, so curious how workflows that use both Adobe tools usually dive into these 3rd party tools.


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I go LR-PS-NIK-PS-LR.
Sometimes I get into Topaz as well since I like their "Details" plugin for certain things.
 

Eduard

Super Mod
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I go LR-PS-NIK-PS-LR.
Sometimes I get into Topaz as well since I like their "Details" plugin for certain things.

Great point - if I am going to use more than one plugin, I will usually go to PS from LR to reduce the number of intermediate files.
 
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