The Accelerated Workflow: From Lightroom to Photoshop

What happens when you start thinking of Lightroom and Photoshop as part of the same workflow?

Lightroom gives you the tools to organize, develop, and refine your photographs, but there are times when you want to push an image further. There comes a point when Lightroom can’t quite take an image where you want it to go. That’s where Photoshop comes in. From repairing and retouching photographs to combining images and making precise adjustments, Photoshop opens up new ways to shape and refine your work. 

In this new online program, retouching expert Josh Withers focuses on the processes and techniques that Photoshop makes possible, showing you how to move an image from Lightroom into Photoshop, make more advanced edits, and bring it back into Lightroom as part of your overall workflow.

Over two sessions, Josh looks at the different roles Lightroom and Photoshop play throughout the editing process, with an emphasis on working in Photoshop. He covers layers and masks, demonstrates a flexible, non-destructive workflow, and looks at different ways to make precise changes to an image. Topics include image repair and retouching, combining multiple images, enhancing details, and other techniques that give you more control over the final photograph.

Some of the techniques use Photoshop’s newer Artificial Intelligence tools, while others rely on tools and methods that have been part of Photoshop for decades. Josh shows how these different approaches can work together and when one method may be more useful than another. 

Along the way, you have plenty of opportunities to ask questions, dig into specific techniques, and get a closer look at the decisions that shape an edit. You come away with a better sense of how to move between Lightroom and Photoshop and a broader understanding of what’s possible when you bring the two together.