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Lightroom 5 and CS5 RAW Images


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daveangie0110

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Hi All,

I am a complete newbie to Photoshop and photography, i use Lightroom 5 to do all my photo editing, but is there any way once i have finished editing that i can send the photo over to Photoshop CS5 in a RAW file.

At the moment once i have taken the Photos i connect the memory card to my Mac then they get sent to Iphoto and then i pick what photos i want to develop in Lightroom. (I dont know if this is the best way) Also when in Iphoto i click on the Photo information button to see the size of the photo (which average about 22 to 25 Meg) but when i transfer them to a memory card they say they are about 4 to 5 Meg ?

Is it best not to use Iphoto ?

Many thanks
 
Hi Dave.
I use LR4 on a pc so I'm not sure this applies but I right click the image/images I want to edit in PS and choose edit in PS from the drop-down menu. In my case this opens a tiff copy in PS.

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Okay does the above work for you?

I may have been a bit loose in my explanation, so just to clarify.

Open Lightroom>choose your photo/photos> right-click on any photo> choose edit in>Adobe CS5 in your case.

Regarding iPhoto I wouldn't know, sorry. But I import using Lightroom import function all the time and that works fine for my purposes.

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OP: "...is there any way once i have finished editing that i can send the photo over to Photoshop CS5 in a RAW file..."

The short answer is, "no". The reason is that a raw file, by definition, should contain only the RAW data that came from the camera and nothing else.

While, in principle, one could add raw conversion settings that you developed in ACR/LR to a raw file (and some companies actually do this), AFAIK, Adobe strictly maintains a very safe policy of never touching the raw data.

If you are working with Adobe products, if you want to send the raw conversion / editing instructions along with the raw data, Adobe uses "sidecar" XMP files. These can be generated by both LR and ACR. On the receiving end, if LR or ACR finds an xmp file with the same name as a raw file in the same directory, it assumes these are linked, and so, when you open the raw file in LR or ACR, all the sliders and other settings from your previous work on the file will be seamlessly transferred over.

Another option is to do what Ziped said, ie, "bake" in the LR/ACR settings by converting the raw file to a conventional bitmap format (eg, like TIF), which can then be read and worked on by any pixel-based editor, (eg, PS, Corel PSP, Picasa, etc.).

A final option is to set up LR / ACR to send it's output to PS as a "smart object". In this way, after the image is in PS, should you want to change the raw conversion settings, you can double click on the background layer that came from LR/ACR and it will re-open the raw file in LR or ACR, and you can then tweak the raw conversion settings in whatever way you want.

HTH,

Tom
 
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Tom Mann said:
OP: "...is there any way once i have finished editing that i can send the photo over to Photoshop CS5 in a RAW file..."

The short answer is, "no". The reason is that a raw file, by definition, should contain only the RAW data that came from the camera and nothing else.

While, in principle, one could add raw conversion settings that you developed in ACR/LR to a raw file (and some companies actually do this), AFAIK, Adobe strictly maintains a very safe policy of never touching the raw data.

If you are working with Adobe products, if you want to send the raw conversion / editing instructions along with the raw data, Adobe uses "sidecar" XMP files. These can be generated by both LR and ACR. On the receiving end, if LR or ACR finds an xmp file with the same name as a raw file in the same directory, it assumes these are linked, and so, when you open the raw file in LR or ACR, all the sliders and other settings from your previous work on the file will be seamlessly transferred over.

Another option is to do what Ziped said, ie, "bake" in the LR/ACR settings by converting the raw file to a conventional bitmap format (eg, like TIF), which can then be read and worked on by any pixel-based editor, (eg, PS, Corel PSP, Picasa, etc.).

A final option is to set up LR / ACR to send it's output to PS as a "smart object". In this way, after the image is in PS, should you want to change the raw conversion settings, you can double click on the background layer that came from LR/ACR and it will re-open the raw file in LR or ACR, and you can then tweak the raw conversion settings in whatever way you want.

HTH,

Tom
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My thought
 
A final option is to set up LR / ACR to send it's output to PS as a "smart object". In this way, after the image is in PS, should you want to change the raw conversion settings, you can double click on the background layer that came from LR/ACR and it will re-open the raw file in LR or ACR, and you can then tweak the raw conversion settings in whatever way you want.
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Argh! Why didn't I think of that. Good one Tom and Mike.
 
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