Comments on: Friday Tip – PSDs and Drive Space

By: Al

Al — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:13:54 +0000

HI Matt,
I don’t seem to be able to find what you’re asking me to do here on LR2. I cannot find the “metadata browser”… any help?

By: Gregg W

Gregg W — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:44:44 +0000

Matt -

While playing with LR2 Beta, I noticed that when I choose to “Edit in Photoshop,” I don’t get the option to “Edit a copy with LR Adjustments” and CS3 just opens the raw file without the adjustments. What am I missing?

By: Papa Urchin

Papa Urchin — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:31:16 +0000

I had the same problem early on. This was compounded by the fact that my library was kept on a server so writing those PSDs to a network drive was taking forever. What I did was create an export preset that wrote the PSDs to a local “Edits” directory and then launched PS. This way when I can quickly and easily cleanup my failed experiments and they don’t clutter my library. If I want to save them, I just reimport them into lightroom.

By: Olli aus Griesheim

Olli aus Griesheim — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:21:30 +0000

Thanks for that nice tip.

By: Bernhard W.

Bernhard W. — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:34:25 +0000

There is another way to avoid these useless PSD. I drag the image which I want to open to the PS icon in the dock. LR then passes the CR2-File to PS which opens it using camera Raw. I can open it then in Photoshop. I get the PSD only if I save it!

I nevertheless can understand why LR does not behave the same as Bridge wrt the communication with Photoshop.

Thanks for your great Blog, Matt!

bernhard

By: ashley

ashley — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:39:01 +0000

matt,
i’m guessing you have a chocolate hangover today?
hope you make it thru ok…

By: David

David — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:22:16 +0000

Bridge doesn’t save a PSD or TIFF when you open a file there in Photoshop CS3 so why does Lightroom. I cannot see the point really of saving like this. The amended RAW file has all the changes saved safely if you need to go back and you can save the file you want in Photoshop CS3. Seems a pretty redundant save. Am I missing something?

By: mattk

mattk — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:44:49 +0000

Mike – Nope. No way to change this.

Gary – Why do we all use Nikon? Good question. I guess we all just prefer it. No special deals or anything. Before the D3 and D300 I’d saw the playing field was pretty even but those two cameras make it really appealing to be a Nikon shooter these days.

Jose – still need PSD files for saving layered image files in case you ever need to go back and change something.

Brian, AP, and John – Not really sure about your questions. If I figured anything out I’ll let you know.

Thanks and Happy Easter!
Matt K

By: John

John — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 20:44:16 +0000

Hi Matt
I have a question, maybe you can answer it for me. I made a ten step gray scale on photoshop CS3. I had the highlights for RGB to read 242, Midtones 128 and the Shadows RGB to read 36. I check the readings in Camera Raw and they came out the same. Then I brought this gray scale into Lightroom in the Develope Module and I get Totally different readings ( Highlights 95.1, Midtones 50.6 and Shadows 12).

What’s your opion?
John

By: AP

AP — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 15:15:17 +0000

Hi and thanks for the tip but I don’t quite get it: We go from lightroom file, to photoshop file and back to lightroom file when we edit through photoshop. Is the PSD file on top of our final lightroom file? I have about 40 PSD files but I don’t understand why I should get rid of them. How do I know if this is an ‘extra’ file and I’m not deleting the only file I have? Sorry to be so thick and thanks in advance for any light you can shed on this