From the course: Photoshop 2024 Essential Training

Opening files from Lightroom - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photoshop 2024 Essential Training

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Opening files from Lightroom

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- [Instructor] Let's see how easy it is to download and start working with the exercise files in Lightroom and then open them into Photoshop. Now, if you're not using Lightroom, then you can go ahead and skip this video. If you're working with the exercise files, you'll want to first download them. And I've downloaded them to the desktop. Now, in the most current version of Lightroom, you have the option of adding the photos to the cloud by using the cloud icon, in which case you would want to add photos. But I would recommend that you click on the Local option instead and then navigate to and find the exercise files and work with them here locally. Then we can select the image that we want to open into Photoshop and choose File and Edit in Photoshop, or use the keyboard shortcut Shift + Command + E on Mac, or Shift + Control + E on Windows. If you're working with raw files, this will apply any of the edits that you've changed in the edit stack and open up a new document into Photoshop. All right, let's close that without saving. When you're working with a layered Photoshop document, and you choose File, and then Edit in Photoshop, Lightroom will automatically hand off the multi-layered document. So here we can see I have the background photograph, as well as the text layer. All right, I'm going to close that without saving as well. And just a note before we wrap up, if you're working with your own images, you're going to want to take advantage of the edit stack in order to make your images look their best before you open them in Photoshop. If, however, you are following along using the exercise files provided with a course, well, then we'll simply open those files directly into Photoshop and start working.

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