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]]>In Lightroom’s Preferences; just click the External Editing tab and you’ll see a pop-up File Format menu near the top right.
For me, this is an easy choice: Both TIFF files and PSD files (Photoshop’s native file format) are “Lossless” — so whichever you choose there is no loss of quality due to file compression (like you’d get with JPEG files), so the quality
However, TIFFs are MUCH larger in file size than PSD files, without giving Photographers any advantage whatsoever. In fact, the only reason I would ever use a TIFF file is if I am sharing my image with a graphic designer who is using a graphics program that doesn’t accept PSD files. This means that they’re not using any Adobe product since all Adobe apps accept PSD files, so they are using some weird, probably outdated application because nearly all graphics programs accept PSDs. In short, it would be really rare to find a designer these days who can’t take PSDs. If I ran into that rare instance, I’d just open the image in Photoshop and save it as a TIFF file. Boom, done.
So, for me, this is an easy choice. I would choose (and recommend) sending your images over to Photoshop as PSDs. You get much, much smaller file sizes with no real downside.
Hope you found that helpful.
-Scott
P.S. There are just a few spots left in both my Paris and China travel photography hands-on workshops, but once they’re gone — they’re gone. All the info’s over on my blog today (here’s the link)
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]]>Here’s why:
ABOVE: White Balance Presets for a RAW image.
When you shoot in RAW, the white balance hasn’t been decided yet. It initially shows you the one you had set in the camera, but it’s waiting for you to make the final choice when you process the image, so all the presets you could have chosen in the camera appear in Lightroom’s WB pop-up menu (as seen above).
ABOVE: White Balance presets for a JPEG or TIFF image.
When you shoot in JPEG or TIFF mode, the White Balance preset setting you made in
Also, if you start with a RAW image, but then export it as a JPEG or TIFF, when you bring it back into Lightroom, even if you started with a RAW image, once it’s saved as a JPEG or TIFF that white balance is now baked in to the file.
Hope that find that helpful.
-Scott
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]]>Hey gang — we’re just about three months away from the Photoshop World Conference in Orlando, Florida (May 30-June 2, 2019 at the Convention Center at the Hyatt Regency Orlando), and I wanted to share the full 3-day Lightroom Training Track class schedule with you (and yes, you can come to “Photoshop World” and take nothing but Lightroom classes the entire time). Here’s the schedule:
> Hidden Tips & Tricks for Lightroom & Photoshop (with Bryan O’Neal Hughes)
> Retouching Portraits in Lightroom (with Kristina Sherk)
> Photo Restoration with Lightroom & Photoshop (with Bryan O’Neal Hughes.)
> Sharing Sync’d Galleries with Lightroom Classic and CC (with Lightroom Killer Tips own Rob Sylvan)
> How to Create Tack Sharp Images (with Terry White)
> Making Beautiful Prints in Lightroom (with Scott Kelby, hey, that’s me!)
> How to Manage your Ever-growing Lightroom Catalog (with Terry White)
> Lightroom on the go (with Robb Sylvan)
> Advanced Lightroom Techniques (with Terry White)
> Scott’s 2019 “Seven Point System” for Lightroom (with me)
> Editing your Landscape Images Like a Pro (with Ramtin Kazemi)
> Batch Portrait Retouching with Perfectly Clear & Lightroom (with Kristina Sherk)
Plus, there’s all this:
Sign up right now at PhotoshopWorld.com (and save $100 with the Early Bird Discount) and we’ll see you this summer in Orlando for the biggest, best, Lightroom love fest on the planet! You are gonna love it! Whoo Hoo!
Hope you have a rockin’ Thursday!
-Scott
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]]>Just today I encountered someone posting an answer in response to a question about export settings for a photo that was about to be shared as an email attachment (granted, there are things we can say about better options than sending photos as attachments, but perhaps for another day). The person asking the question shared the settings they were using, and as it relates to this issue the settings for the Image Sizing panel were that Resize to Fit was unchecked and the Resolution field was set to 300 PPI. The first response to this question went something like this, “If you lower pixel per inch to 100 it would help save space.” This is well intended, but wrong.
Now, I’m not trying to disrespect the well-meaning person who was trying to answer the question, but it did highlight once again that that darn field is the cause of a lot of confusion, and it is easy to understand why. We use the word resolution for discussing a photo’s pixel dimensions, our screen/display dimensions, camera sensor size, print size, and probably other things not coming immediately to mind. In each instance, it can have a slightly different meaning. We also like to use descriptors like high res and low res without any other context for what those terms mean, as if there is a universally accepted meaning for the precise threshold of when a photo crosses between being high res to low res (which there isn’t).
So, why was his well-meaning answer wrong? Simply because the Resize to Fit box was unchecked. When Resize to Fit is unchecked, then the exported copy will have the same pixel dimensions as the (cropped) source photo, and the only factors affecting file size are in the File Settings panel (based on file type and associated settings).
When Resize to Fit is unchecked, the Resolution field is simply a metadata tag stored in the exported copy. You could put any number in that field, and export it 10 times with 10 different Resolution values and the pixel dimensions and file size in bytes will be the same for all 10 copies (assuming you used the same settings in the File Settings panel each time). Go ahead and test it yourself. Here’s my results from 3 exports where the only variable I changed was the value in the Resolution field (and the filename to match the Resolution value). One is 3,000 PPI, one is 300 PPI, and one is 3 PPI.
I then opened all 3 into Photoshop, and use the Image > Image Size command in each one to confirm the pixel dimensions were the same for each, and the only difference was the value in the Resolution field.
Now if I were intending to print any of those images the value in the Resolution field would be important, but as I stated at the start, we’re only talking about photos only ever shared on screen. Besides, it is a simple matter to uncheck Resample in the Image Size dialog box and set the resolution field to whatever I needed it to be for printing purposes (but I’m not doing that here).
So, this is just a really long way to say that if you are exporting photos to only ever be shared on screen and you are not resizing the photo as part of the export process to a specific print size, then you can put any number you want in that Resolution field and it won’t have any impact on file size or pixel dimensions.
The same goes if you are just resizing to specific pixel dimensions (not size in inches or centimeters). The Resolution value is just a metadata tag here too.
The only time the Resolution field has a role in affecting pixel dimensions is if you check Resize to Fit AND choose a size in inches (or cm), then the value in the Resolution field is used to calculate the required pixel dimensions. That’s when you want to consider what value you enter for Resolution. Hope this helps.
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]]>Awesome, right? Thanks Terry!
Just a few spots left for my June Travel Photography Workshop in Paris
Hope you can join me for this epic experience in beautiful Paris, France. Go to ScottKelbyWorkshops.com for details and to grab one of the last spots (the workshop is limited to 12-people total).
Have a great week everybody!
–Scott
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]]>I wanted to share this great article today from Charles Gardiner at DigitalPhotographySchool.com because it’s not the same old plug-ins you’ve heard about a million times — he’s got some really good stuff in here — totally worth checking out.
Here’s the link: https://digital-photography-school.com/lightroom-plugins/
Here’s wishing you a fantastic weekend, and we’ll catch ya back here on Monday (well, that’s what I’m hoping anyway).
-Scott
P.S. Thanks to all the folks who came by my book signing at the Rocky Nook booth at WPPI out in Vegas this week. Met some really nice folks and really had a great time chatting with everybody.
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]]>Issue 48 of Lightroom Magazine is now available for KelbyOne Pro members on the KelbyOne site and on the KelbyOne Mags app for iOS and Android. In this issue, learn tips and techniques for capturing beautiful wildlife images from photography blinds, plus building custom creative profiles, using all the latest features in the Book module, a look at the new Enhanced Details feature, and so much more!
KelbyOne Pro members have access to more than 60 back issues of Photoshop User magazine all the way back to January 2012, plus all 48 issues of Lightroom Magazine. Not a Pro member yet? Click here for more information.
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]]>You see, there was an update back in December of 2018 that brought with it a change in Develop preset behavior when a selected photo was incompatible with some (or all) settings contained in a preset. Let’s say for example you have a JPG selected in the Develop module and you expand one of your preset folders containing presets that contain a camera profile as one of the settings. In that instance you could experience a disappearance of all incompatible presets (because you can’t apply a raw profile to a JPG) or those affected presets may simply appear in a sort of grayed-out italics font.
The difference in behavior comes down to a setting on the Preset panel of the preferences. If you go to Lightroom > Preferences > Presets (PC: Edit > Preferences > Presets), and look in the Visibility section you’ll see a checkbox for Show Partially Compatible Develop Presets. When checked (the default setting is checked), the presets in my example above will appear in the panel, but they will be grayed-out and italicized. That means you can click them to apply settings, but Lightroom is telling you that at least one setting in that preset is incompatible with the selected photo, so you may not get the result you intend.
If the Show Partially Compatible Develop Presets box is unchecked, then you won’t see any presets that can’t be fully applied to the selected photo. I don’t think there is necessarily one right answer here as long as you understand what happens in both cases (and now you do).
The person I originally got the question from must have unchecked that preference setting and forgot, and the result was a moment of panic until I directed them back to that preference setting. An easy mistake to make. I prefer leaving the option checked and getting the visual reminder about how a preset might function as opposed to not seeing them at all. At the very least it usually reminds me to check the file type of the selected photo, and simply selecting the raw version puts me back on track. Hope that helps someone else!
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]]>Hope you found that helpful.
This is your invitation to come to beautiful Paris, France and join me and long exposure expert; KelbyOne Instructor Mimo Meidany for an unforgettable four-day travel photography workshop — “The Essence of Paris” in the most photogenic city in the world. First, watch this short video:
For all the details, visit scottkelbyworkshops.com
Here’s to a week of creating fabulous photo books!
Thanks,
–Scott
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