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ambitious_user9660
ambitious_user9660
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December 28, 2022
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LR -> PS -> LR (Windows)

  • December 28, 2022
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I do my editing in Lightroom and then send over to Photoshop for further editing. When I then save and open in Lightroom again, all my original LR editings are gone.


How can I keep these original LR edits?

Regards
Robert

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ambitious_user9660
ambitious_user9660Author
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December 30, 2022

I read my initial post and realize that I have been unclear. The result of my LR edits is still there but I don't have the opportunity to pick them up and continue as if I hadn't been in PS and returned.

Richard Plandon explains that my LR edits are included in the file I send to PS which of course makes perfect sense.

I thank you all for your commitment.

//Robert

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richardplondonCommunity Expert
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December 31, 2022

LrC edits applied onto the PS-saved file will always be cumulative onto that, so it is appropriate that the image should initially show 0 edits when it returns to the Catalog.

 

That said, you can have your initial LrC edits remain further editable: just, not editable inside LrC. 

 

If instead of "Edit in PS" you choose "Edit in PS as Smart Object". the resulting PS document has your original e.g. Raw file embedded inside it, with live ACR settings against that. Inside PS, you can go in and continue altering these initial edits nondestructively, within an ACR window. They will only be committed irretrievably, if you later flatten this Smart Object down to a standard PS layer.

 

The penalty of this is a very large filesize. It must hold the Raw file, and a full pixel preview representing its current ACR-rendered state, besides a compatibility preview for the whole thing, plus any other layers / channels / masks that you might include.

    GoldingD
    GoldingD
    Legend
    December 28, 2022

    Is the original photo you edited in LrC, a RAW file or a Raster file?

     

    What exact version of LrC?

     

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    richardplondonCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    December 28, 2022

    Your original LR edits have been incorporated (committed inextricably) into the image that was then opened by Photoshop. So you should see the effect of those edits within the new image that comes back to the Catalog after you save from PS. To satisfy yourself that this is working as it should, I suggest: test this with a very strong and obvious edit.

     

    As a reminder to anyone who is unsure, this newly imported image (the TIFF or the PSD saved by PS) is meant to show all 0 adjustments, at least initially. This is the only way that what you see in the Catalog can match (at least, as an initial starting point) what you saw within PS at time of saving.

     

    Any adjustment parameter further applied in LrC, acts cumulatively onto this entirely fresh import. If LrC had repeated the same edits you applied onto the initial image version, the impact of those edits would have become in effect doubled.

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      DS256
      Inspiring
      December 28, 2022

      Just to add some clarification, your TIFF/PSD file that is returned from PS is likely in a stack with your original, I assume, RAW file. You will see your original edits there. They are collapse when the TIFF/PSD Export is created by LrC to send to PS.

      dj_paige
      dj_paige
      Legend
      December 28, 2022

      Lightroom or Lightroom Classic?

       

      Please provide a step-by-step description of what you are doing, leaving nothing out.

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