Lightroom Essentials: RAW Processing & External Editing in Photoshop

The Power of RAW

Quickly Identify and Organize Your Best Pictures, RAW photos included. 

RAW Processing

Shooting in RAW will yield the complete, uncompressed data captured by your camera’s sensor. This gives you a ton of flexibility and control in post-production. You’ll be amazed at how much information your camera can actually capture and how easily it can be manipulated to create the exact look and tone you want in your images.

Local Editing

Local edits are made to only portions of a photo. Did you get a properly exposed background but your subject is just a bit too dark? We’ll show you how to bring back those details of your subject while leaving your background rich and beautiful.

Global Editing

Global edits will affect your entire image. You’ll want to edit globally when you need to adjust things like exposure, highlights and shadows, and the color of your photograph. We’ll walk you through all of the tools in the Develop Module which provide a great foundation when starting your edits.

Synchronize Settings

If you’ve taken a bunch of pictures in the same environment, you can make exposure adjustments to one, and then apply those adjustments to all of the other images in that group. The Synchronize Settings option will speed up your workflow and help get all of your images on even ground.

Make Complex Edits a Breeze

Seamless Workflow Between Lightroom and Photoshop.

External Editing in Photoshop

Lightroom is powerful but sometimes certain edits require a bit more depth. We’ll show you our workflow for working between Lightroom and Photoshop. While in Photoshop, we’ll cover how retouch environments and remove unwanted objects.

Retouching

After editing images to perfection, it’s time to export them and deliver to a client or upload them to the web. Learn exporting workflow to make sure your images display properly no matter where they end up.

Compositing

Editing comes in a lot a varieties. Sometimes you’ll need to perform quick global edits to your photos to help you with the culling process. Sometimes more detailed edits are required when you’re working with clients. We’ll show you how to build the editing process into multiple steps of your workflow.

Imagination to Reality

Throughout this series, we’ll take you through everything from creating your first Lightroom catalog, to sending photographs over to Photoshop for external editing. We’ve developed our process over the years to help you work faster, stay organized, and never have to worry about losing or misplacing any files.