Exporting twice from Lightroom to Photoshop and loss of quality?

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I have Raw files that I export from Lr to Ps for more extenisive editing and then save back to Lr but sometimes I notice something I have stupidly missed and need to then export the same image back again into Ps to correct. These images are then Tiffs in Lr and the option box pops up with 'What to Edit' I select the option - 'Edit a Copy with Lightroom Adjustements'. I then correct the things I have overlooked and save the image back again to Lr but doing this will it degrade the image?! Hope this makes sense, any advise is greatly appreciated:)

JohanElzenga · Answer

TIFF is a file format that you can open and save again as many times as you want. There is no quality loss like JPEG. What you can do in this case is not use 'Edit a copy with Lightroom Adjustments', which creates a new copy with the recent Lightroom edits 'baked in' and so no longer changeable, but to use 'Edit Original'. Photoshop will then open the TIFF it sent to Lightroom, so you can make any changes to it as if you were doing that when you first created it. When the TIFF returns in Lightroom, all the Lightroom edits will still be non-destructive. The only thing you will have to remember is that 'Edit Original' will not show the Lightroom edits while you work again on that TIFF in Photoshop, but they will be there when you retun to Lightroom again.

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