New ways to work with photoshop
Lightroom 2 has four new ways of working with Photoshop. You can now send individual or multiple files to Photoshop for specific editing tasks.
The options available are found in the Library or Develop Module under the Photo / Edit In menu.
You can now:
- Open an image as a Smart Object in Photoshop
- Merge multiple images into a Panorama
- Merge multiple images to HDR
- Open multiple images as Layers in Photoshop.
Opening an image as a Smart Object allows you perform initial edits in Lightroom and then be able to access Camera RAW in Photoshop to make further RAW adjustments. Note that Lightroom will not automatically add the final Photoshop image back into the library when it is saved.
Merge to Panorama and Merge to HDR are much the same as found in Adobe Bridge. Multiple images are sent to a Photoshop action which in turn allows you to modify the Merge or HDR settings prior to generating the final image.
Opening multiple images as Photoshop layers for exposure blending, or just to make cool effects, becomes very quick and easy.
Good timesavers for Lightroom users who want to do further processing in Photoshop.
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