fyi, photoshop handles the raw files the same way, it doesn't edit them. it adds the sidecar files and then if you doing any advanced editing it automatically saves a tif or psd. leaves the original raw untouched.
lightroom will read the same sidecar files and open any changes you made in PS automatically, and vice versa. also if you are in lightroom, and find its not enough, you can right click and hit edit in PS, this will open your current file state in photoshop for some advanced editing and when you save it, it saves a copy, and reimorts that file for you so you are right back to where you left off, again not modifying the original. very nice.
also if you go back in PS and open the edit, you will be able to go back into lightroom and your LR edits will still be there on top of the psd or tif such as crops and you will be able to change them. this is nice for say if you set all your levels, crops and such and you for got to clone out something, when you get back into LR the edits are all nondestructive so they get reapplied to the new psd or tif file.
for basic editing lightroom cant be beat. check out adobes site for video tutorials that really show you the power of LR. |
