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Hey,

I am a wedding photographer in the making ha!

I have both Photoshop and Lightroom, at the moment I am editing in Photoshop and then putting my twist / style on the images in Lightroom

Is this the right way or am I making more work for myself or should I be doing both in one programme?

:thinking:
 
I'm not a pro but I'd use Lightroom first, and switch to PS for more advanced edits when necessary. Much easier this way IMHO.
 
I'm in the LR then PS if required camp
I do all I can in LR, then if it needs specific editing in PS, press ctrl and e, it opens it in photoshop. Makes it very simple, then ctrl w, it's back to LR .
 
LR first for organising and processing: PS second for creative editing.

Colin
 
shelleyphoto said:
Hey,

I am a wedding photographer in the making ha!

I have both Photoshop and Lightroom, at the moment I am editing in Photoshop and then putting my twist / style on the images in Lightroom

Is this the right way or am I making more work for myself or should I be doing both in one programme?

:thinking:
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Lightroom for global changes... brightness, contrast, saturation, white balance... the big stuff... as you are not making changes to the RAW file..(assuming you are shooting in RAW). I then export as a 16bit TIFF for further fine editing/retouching in Photoshop is necessary.

I use photshop for detailed and complex retouching as Lightroom is barely adequate for that.

For me, it's not one or the other... they are both different, and both serve a purpose depending on what needs doing. Lightroom works on the RAW file and makes no changes to the original file, where as PS needs a bitmapped, image file, and all changes made are permanent (unless everything is in a layer).
 
I use Lightroom first for weddings for the bulk editing, then photoshop for the second edit for the albums (all the really fine tuning etc) about the only time I'll switch over to photoshop early on is if theres something that needs 'fixing', say a sign that needs removing that couldn't be avoided at time of shooting or similar.
 
shelleyphoto said:
I have both Photoshop and Lightroom, at the moment I am editing in Photoshop and then putting my twist / style on the images in Lightroom
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What are you doing in Photoshop? :shrug:

I'm finding I'm using Photoshop less and less, though I use Camera Raw rather than Lightroom, but it is essentially the same thing for processing RAW files. :shrug:

Lately it's mainly been the Content Aware fill that has got me having to use Photoshop, which can do amazing things. :clap: But I'd say I do about 95% of what I do to images in ACR, and so could do the same Lightroom.
 
BruceMo said:
I'm in the LR then PS if required camp
I do all I can in LR, then if it needs specific editing in PS, press ctrl and e, it opens it in photoshop. Makes it very simple, then ctrl w, it's back to LR .
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I think you mean Command + E or Command + W ...I'm just kidding but according to wife I believe that the world is centered around Apple products.

Thanks BruceMo or those shortcuts though as I have been doing it the long way all of the time until now!
 
TrueLee478 said:
I think you mean Command + E or Command + W ...I'm just kidding but according to wife I believe that the world is centered around Apple products.

Thanks BruceMo or those shortcuts though as I have been doing it the long way all of the time until now!
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Glad to be of help
I nearly went the road of imac, as I love my iphone and ipad, but a very nice chap on here (no names, but cheers again mate) talked me into building me a higher spec pc for less quids. He was right, as usual, and I never looked back
Apple are damn good at what they do though :thumbs:
 
Wrong way round!
My workflow: import everything to lightroom. Delete anything out of focus or dull. I then use LR for pretty much everything - tweak curves, apply lens correction, crop etc - and often publish straight to flickr/facebook/export to jpg and I'm done. For anything needing a bit of a retouch, right-click and edit in photoshop - e.g. healing brush or anything with layers. Close out and PS will export the result to LR - job done.
 
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