Edit in Photoshop

Lightroom is an 80-95% solution for photographers. Most of the time, you can import, tag, edit and output your images right from Lightroom and forgo the multi-app shuffle that was so prevalent before 2007. However, there are times when you need to do some heavier lifting (read: compositing, local corrections such as dodge/burn, HDR, Panoramas etc.). Most realize that Photoshop CS3 is an indispensable tool for this type of work, and many photographers who have Lightroom also have Photoshop (and many came from Bridge/Photoshop to Lightroom).

Photoshop CS3 gives you an extra set of tools that I find sometimes useful in a small percentage of my work. Thankfully, Lightroom has a few options for round-tripping your images from Lightroom to Photoshop and back and it looks like George Jardine (our pro evangelist and podcaster extraordinaire) has posted another tutorial that covers the "Edit in Photoshop" workflow. Highly recommended.

This tutorial can be downloaded from his iDisk at:
http://idisk.mac.com/george_jardine-Public?view=web

You can also subscribe to it in iTunes. Just search for Lightroom in Apple's podcast directory.

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