Lightroom 3 - Stacking after PS edit

Will James

Will James

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Hello,

I'm just getting used to using Lightroom 3 now, I've sorted my workflow out and I've definitely benefitted from it.

The one thing I do have a question on, though, is that if I transfer a photo directly from Lightroom 3 to PS CS5 to do some cloning, for example, when I close it and go back to Lightroom, it's nicely stacked so I can choose which one to publish, and get rid of the PS edit if I want to without disturbing the original image.

However, when I went to where the .tif (PS edit) image is saved, it is a whopping 204MB.....is there not a way that the image on top can be around 10MB like any other .TIF, as I see this as counter-productive - it seems that the better thing to do would be to export the image from LR, import to PS, edit, then save a copy....etc.......or am I missing something here?

Any help will be greatly appreciated,

Will :D.

p.s. In order to transfer to Photoshop at the moment, I'm Right-Clicking the image --> Edit in... --> Photoshop CS5 --> Make changes --> "Do you want to save changes to this Adobe Document before quitting?" --> YES --> Creates a stacked .tif image showing edits from PS (= approx 200MB per image!?) I dont know if I've missed out some settings?
 
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Kerioak said:
Everytime you add a layer when you are editing the .tif file will get bigger, the more layers the larger it gets.

I prefer not to stack so that I can see each image separately but that is just a personal preference.
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Hi Christine,

Even if I seperate the images, just the .tif alone is 200MB, I don't understand why when the RAW is only 25MB.

Will.
 
The tiff file saves the layer information. You need to flatten it before you save it to make it smaller. Even then, it will probably be larger than the raw as the raw is a compressed format whereas the tiff is only compressed if you save it as compressed.
 
Ok, thanks for the help.

Is there a way I can change the settings so that when I ship the photo back to Lightroom it is flatenned and compressed?
 
Will James said:
Ok, thanks for the help.

Is there a way I can change the settings so that when I ship the photo back to Lightroom it is flatenned and compressed?
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Yes, flatten it before saving. Right click in the layers pallette or Layers->flatten image. Or uncheck the layers in the save dialog.
 
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