5 Tips To MAXIMIZE Your Lightroom & Photoshop Workflow

[@johnandjuliewadley4776]

Thanks

[@brianmatiash]

Thanks so much for the support!!!

[@sergedaleiden5597]

Brilliant! Thank you so much Brian. You just made my day! I quit using PS Beta because LR kept defaulting to it instead of the PS production version. Greatly appreciate your lessons. Can't wait for 2025. Have a happy new year!

[@lauriewahlig2819]

Yes! Me too!

[@guymatson7731]

Brian, throughly enjoyed your videos in 2024!

[@yomismo1945]

Happy & healthy new year, Brian, to you, your family, and each and every one of your subscribers. Tks for all your indescribably helpful tutorials!

[@brianmatiash]

What a sweet comment! I wish you and yours the very best for 2025, as well!

[@marklanigan1]

Thank you so much Brian. You helped me go all in with the Cloud service and I haven’t looked back. I did a talk recently at my camera club about going all in and I think the mobile products and Portfolio got a couple of converts. Best wishes to you and the Adobe team.

[@RadAlzyoud]

Oh. I didn't know about the last tip. Good to know. Thx

[@brianmatiash]

Always happy to help!

[@RayDDavid]

Congrats on your KZbin subscribers and Happy New Year. I made the switch to LR from LRC last year thanks to your Lightroom Everywhere course. I'm a Windows user, but I bought an iPad so that I can have access to Photoshop on a tablet. Do you have any idea when Adobe is going to release an update for Photoshop on the iPad?

[@JohnDoranski]

Thanks - could have used this last month until I figured it out. Open PS 2025 first, the transfer over. Drove me nuts for several hours and a lot of different attempts.

[@brianmatiash]

Yeah, I admit that it could be made a bit clearer for those of us who want to rock both versions on the same computer.

[@lauriewahlig2819]

@@brianmatiashyes!

[@Chrsly]

@8:15 You can configure Lightroom Classic to send a PSD to Photoshop instead of a TIFF file if you want - all that is under Preferences > External Editing > File Format

[@brianmatiash]

That'd be wonderful if this video had anything to do with Lightroom Classic. 😄 This video, and pretty much every other video on my channel from recent history, focuses on Lightroom Desktop, Mobile, and Web.

[@thebearpike]

@@brianmatiash I like you videos. But just the fact that you - as Adobe employee - focus so much on non-Classic content makes me nervous. Nervous that Adobe rather sooner than later drops Lightroom Classic and all the goodness and advantages it has over Lightroom Desktop. Well at least for me, and I appreciate that everybody’s needs are different.

[@Arnklars]

On LRC desktop you can select which file type to move to Photoshop, PSD or tiff. And select colorspace, Profoto or Adobe RGB. Regards Lars 😊 And if you select "save as" in Photoshop, you can select file type again. Psd pdf, tiff etc... but why don't you use dng in Lightroom.

[@leonardscotto2870]

Another great video Brian as I use Lightroom and Photoshop for all of my post processing. I have a question that pivots from the focus of this video. I am a photographer with over 60,000 photos catalogued in Lightroom Classic. I use LRC extensively with Photoshop and I'm also starting to use DaVinci Resolve. Do you ever create videos on hardware or software perfectly suited for photographers? I can't figure out whether I should buy the Apple's M4 Pro Mac Mini with 24 or 49gb ram, and 1 Tb storage or should I wait for the lower end M4 Mac studio. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

[@pgardecki]

Looking forward for more in2025!

[@brianmatiash]

Me too!!

[@StephenEhrlichPhotos]

I am only in the 3rd group of lesions in the /Lightroom Everywhere course. (Excellent course). I am not sure if this is addressed in your course. At the end of the video, you discussed how to preserve PhotoShop layers by reseting the Lightroom edits before sending the file back go PhotoShop again. Could I "copy" the edits before I do the LightRoom edit reset, then send the file back to Photoshop. layers now restored,. After I finish my PhotoShop changes, the file then returns to Lightroom. Lastly I "paste" the lightroom edit back to the same file. A little clunky, I guess I will have to test this.

[@tadeuszcynkowski2197]

Good video but I still have two questions. 1. How to get back to LR with jpg file instead of tif? 2. How to open raw photo from LR in ACR in Photoshop?. Only ACR has adaptive profile currently.

[@peterferst4045]

Thank you Brian. I do use Lr in a limited way and LrC. Until Adobe include a Print function I cannot switch to LR . I print a lot. I know the various work arounds such as sync to LrC or export to PS or just export and use my Canon Print and Layout programme but all of these add extra time and in some case mor files to handle. If both you and Matt have crystal ball gazed as to when/of LrC is retired it would be a disaster for me and I suspect many others if we could not print directly from LC. The other issue for me is abandoning the cataloging feature. With this I create a few dedicated catalogues that help me manage my 200,00 plus images more efficiently. I guess if push came to shove it is not necessarily a "deal breaker" unlike no printing which is. Any thoughts on this issue of no printing facility?

[@TC_Conner]

7:45 in, if you started with a raw file, why didn't the file open in camera raw? When I send a raw file (or a jpeg because I have it set to open both in camera raw) to Photoshop from Lr, LrC, or just open it from a folder, it always opens in camera raw. I noticed your's didn't.

[@bruceatkinson932]

Look at 16:30 on

[@TC_Conner]

@ That’s the end of the video. 🤷🏼

[@bruceatkinson932]

@ Ha! Right you are. Anyway, LrC will transfer RAW as RAW to PS (hence opens in ACR) but transfer from Lr desktop will be a tiff and transfer from Lr mobile will be as psd. Weird isn’t it. I do wish that Lr desktop would transfer as RAW tho'.

[@TC_Conner]

@@bruceatkinson932 Understood. My workflow changed when Adobe added “Local” to Lr Desktop. I use LrC for event photography only. I should add that Brian, Matt K., and Blake Rudis have helped tremendously.

[@PaulCarmona]

Using Lightroom instead of Lightroom classic is like using photoshop elements instead of photoshop, but that’s in my case and everyone has different needs. Have a very happy new year and hope to see you again in Australia one day 🤜🤛

[@JohnDoranski]

Question. As a new user of LR, PS, and LrC why does LR not have move options for presets per masking. I had to learn LrC to do a series of photos where a water tower had to be white, and I learned that I could only do this in LrC. LR only has a few presets and no ability to create your own like LrC. Not sure why LR is not better than LrC? Thanks.

[@TC_Conner]

Oh my! Am I first Brian?!?

[@grosema]

Did you say that you can have Only Photoshop as I dont use Lightroom and dont even have it installed ,, But I am Paying for the One with Lightroom .. But i do use Bridge

[@huwmorgan51]

Brian, the kinds of inconsistencies that are "designed" into LR (e.g. PSD in mobile and TIFF in desktop) are so irritating. Where is the attention to detail that would enforce consistency across platforms. It's the same with the location of the geometry functions (i.e. on their own in LR Classic and LR Mobile, under crop in LR Desktop). Why isn't this something that your QA team addresses with the developers?

[@samelogio7441]

Happy New Year. I am looking forward to what you will be sharing is 2025.

[@yomismo1945]

I'm a Mac user and had the beta version & Lr as defaults, but I am a LrC dude, so I made LrC my default.