Take an Image from Lightroom Over to Photoshop (and Back)?

Click on the image you want to edit in Photoshop and press Command-E (PC: Ctrl-E). If the image you clicked on was in RAW format, it will open straight away in Photoshop. If it’s a JPEG or a TIFF, the dialog you see above will appear, asking how you want that image to go over to Photoshop. By default, Edit a Copy with Lightroom Adjustments is selected, and I think that’s a good, safe way to go (so you’re not messing with the original image). In fact, I’d stay away from the Edit Original choice altogether (with one small exception, which I mention on the next page, which only pertains to images you’ve already edited in Photoshop). The second choice, Edit a Copy is only if you don’t want anything you’ve done to the image in Lightroom to appear in Photoshop. I’ve never had an occasion to use that option even once—99.9% of the time, I use the top one, I never use the second, and 0.1% of the time, I use the third. Okay, once I’ve opened an image in Photoshop and edited it there, how do I get it back to Lightroom? Simple. In Photoshop, just Save (Command-S [PC: Ctrl-S]) and close the image. That’s it. Go look back in Lightroom and, right beside your original (or sometimes, for some weird reason, it appears at the bottom of the collection), is your Photoshop-edited file. One more thing: you can choose the name Lightroom automatically assigns to images you take over to Photoshop by going to Lightroom’s preferences (under the Lightroom [PC: Edit] menu), clicking on the External Editing tab, and in the File Naming section at the bottom, choosing Edit from the pop-up menu, and then creating the filename template you prefer it to use.