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Editing in other applications, Editing in other applications overview
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130 Chapter 10: Editing in other applications Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® allows you to switch to other image-editing applications to make additional refinements to your photos. For example, you can switch to Adobe® Photoshop® or Adobe Photoshop Elements, edit your image, save the changes, and return to Lightroom. The saved photo is automatically added to the Lightroom catalog, and the original photo remains intact. More Help topics "Editing in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements: Basic workflow" on page 15 Editing in other applications overview Specify external editing preferences You use External Editing preferences to specify the file format and other options for editing camera raw and DNG files in Photoshop Elements and external image-editing applications that cannot read the mosaic sensor data in camera raw files. The options you specify in Lightroom External Editing preferences are also used by Photoshop when you save camera raw and DNG files from Lightroom in Photoshop. Finally, you also use External Editing preferences to select external image-editing applications. 1 Choose Edit > Preferences (Windows) or Lightroom > Preferences (Mac OS). 2 Click External Editing. Set preferences for working with camera raw files in external editors Lightroom opens camera raw and DNG files directly in Photoshop CS3 (10.0.1) or later. However, Lightroom must send either TIFF or PSD copies of camera raw and DNG files to Photoshop Elements and to other external editors that cannot read raw data. In the External Editing preferences, you specify the file format, color space, bit depth, and compression for the TIFF and PSD files that Lightroom sends to these editors. To best preserve color details in photos sent from Lightroom, 16-bit ProPhoto RGB is recommended. If you open camera raw files from Lightroom directly into Photoshop and save them there, Photoshop uses the settings you specify in Lightroom External Editing preferences for the files that it saves. ❖ In the External Editing preferences dialog box, choose options from the following menus: File Format Saves camera raw images in either TIFF or PSD format. See "File formats" on page 31. Color Space Converts photos to the sRGB, AdobeRGB, or ProPhoto RGB color space and tags them with the color profile. See "About color management in Lightroom" on page 29. Bit Depth Saves photos with a bit depth of 8 bits or 16 bits per color channel (red, green, and blue). Files that are 8 bit are smaller and more compatible with various applications, but do not preserve the fine tonal detail of 16-bit files. Compression (TIFF only) Applies either ZIP compression or no compression to photos. ZIP is a lossless compression method that is most effective for images that contain large areas of single color. Template Uses the template you specify to name the file. Select a template and specify custom text or the start number of the filenames. See "The Filename Template Editor and Text Template Editor" on page 35. Updated 03 September 2009