Hi I am new to photoshop, and lightroom. I have my camera shooting in raw and Jpeg, but when I see them in lightroom it saws xxx.SRW+JPG, so I guess both the raw and the jpeg are together with the file name. So if I develop in lightroom, or transfer to edit in photoshop, are they editing the raw file, or am I just editing the jpeg, and loosing out on quality, and filling up my PC with raw files that Im not touching.. Sorry if this is a bit dense.. any help appreciated..
me no expert but when you open the file, if it's a raw file i would have thought it would open in photoshops raw interface which you adjust and then open into the normal photoshop interface. you could always just shoot in raw without the jpeg. that probably may not help, but i tried : )
I''m talking Mac... In Lightroom choose a photograph in question, control-click on it and choose "show in finder". Now that you've found the original file... are they still united in one file or are there two files - one jpeg and one srw?
Oh .. Ive just noticed in preferences in Lightroom that I can set option to treat raw next to jpegs as seperate files when importing. Ive just synchronised a folder into lightroom, and it is importing jpegs, so guess the raws were already there, and the ones I was editing.. will continue trying..
@Jen Hi! I am using Photoshop CS5 and I can tell about it, but Lightroom is new to me, I just installed it several days ago. Lightroom is good for processing many photos and collecting them and sorting them in galleries.
Whether you shoot in RAW or RAW+JPEG - it depends on your camera settings, but if you want to edit with no quality loss - choose to open only the RAW file in Photoshop CS. FIRST the interface for RAW files appear, and just after you finish editing, you can go on editing in other photoshop interface. Its good to shoot in RAW+JPEG, cause when in JPEG you can look through the pictures easier:) I hope that helps, I am not a pro, I just tell you what I know from my experience:)
@velina Hi, thank you for your help. I am now sure how to import my raw files correctly to lightroom, and then edit in lightroom.. there is an option in lightroom to edit in photoshop, and it opens the raw file, but doesnt open the raw interface, so I guess lightroom is doing that part?
@Jen Hmm, I am using only Photoshop. I just click twice on the RAW file and it automatically opens the RAW interface first. I have no idea how you can do it through Lightroom, sorry.
When you import, Lightroom will move/copy all the files to a physical folder, so both the RAW and JPG will be transferred. When you are viewing and creating catalogs it knows they are the same image, so it just works with the RAW file and ignores the JPG (it's still there but you don't see it, which is convenient because otherwise you appear to have duplicates of everything). That's by default. If you tell it to treat RAW and JPG as separate files, it will not match them up, and you'll see both. If you do that, you could just import the RAW files and delete the JPGs.
The "Develop" sliders are the same as the Camera Raw portion of Photoshop (exactly the same "technology"), so you don't need to open in Camera Raw, you can do all that in Lightroom. If you did want to use ACR, you can open the physical folder in Bridge, or File > Open from PS.
@mikew Thanks I was getting confused with it saying .srw + Jpeg..and then panicking that edit in photoshop didnt bring up the raw interface. @eyebrows the article is great, I was searching th lightroom site, but this article spells it out really clearly.I really appreciate all of your help. @velina@aspada
If you want to be sure of what's going on, make a whacko change to your file in Lightroom (change the temperature way down so image is blue), then save.
Go to the folder and look at the JPG - it should still be normal. Open the RAW file in Photoshop and it should be blue.
When you open the file in Photoshop from Lightroom, LR will make a copy of the file as a TIF. So now you have three files:
- JPG should be untouched
- RAW file should have LR adjustmenst (blue)
- TIF file opened in PS should also have LR adjustments (blue)
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Whether you shoot in RAW or RAW+JPEG - it depends on your camera settings, but if you want to edit with no quality loss - choose to open only the RAW file in Photoshop CS. FIRST the interface for RAW files appear, and just after you finish editing, you can go on editing in other photoshop interface. Its good to shoot in RAW+JPEG, cause when in JPEG you can look through the pictures easier:) I hope that helps, I am not a pro, I just tell you what I know from my experience:)
The "Develop" sliders are the same as the Camera Raw portion of Photoshop (exactly the same "technology"), so you don't need to open in Camera Raw, you can do all that in Lightroom. If you did want to use ACR, you can open the physical folder in Bridge, or File > Open from PS.
Go to the folder and look at the JPG - it should still be normal. Open the RAW file in Photoshop and it should be blue.
When you open the file in Photoshop from Lightroom, LR will make a copy of the file as a TIF. So now you have three files:
- JPG should be untouched
- RAW file should have LR adjustmenst (blue)
- TIF file opened in PS should also have LR adjustments (blue)