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    I downloaded Lightroom 5 last weekend, and am now trying to catalog four years of photos! I have a few questions that may be pretty basic. Before I started using Lightroom, my usual workflow was to create and label a folder with the images from a particular shoot...say, Sapsucker Woods_6_21_13. Then I previewed each photo in Finder, and marked the ones I thought were acceptable or good. I then imported the good ones into the Camera Raw module of Photoshop, made some edits (exposure compensation, noise reduction, sharpening, etc), saved them as tiffs, and then saved those that I wanted to upload to BPN as jpegs. But now, with Lightroom, I am planning to view the RAW images in Lightroom and flag them for further editing. So, my questions are:

    1. If I decide to do noise reduction or any other edit in LR, will those changes be present when I open the image up in PS CS6 for further editing?
    2. If I save them as tiffs and jpegs in CS6 in the same folder in which I cataloged the RAW image in LR, will LR recognize the new images? If not, how should I handle that?
    3. More generally, when should I be apply noise reduction? I'm using the Canon 7D now, which I am finding is really noisy even when I expose to the right, so I usually apply NR first to see if the photo is salvageable.

    Thanks for your advice.

    Wendy

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    Hi Wendy,

    I find LR indispensable and beautifully straightforward for workflow. The Develop module is the same engine as ACR, with a different interface. All edits you make there to a raw file will be recognized when you open the raw file in PS and that rendered file will come back into the filmstrip, although sometimes not in the order you expect. There are several choices for ordering; by time stamp and added order are both very useful. If you do further edits in the Develop module to a rendered file (.psd, .tif or .jpg) you will want to re-open it with the choice for as a copy with LR adjustments.

    I don't care for sharpening beyond the default, or NR -- generally best to save them for PS where you have potentially more sophisticated tools.

    The Create Virtual Copy option is very useful for having different interpretations of a file.

    LR is very sophisticated and it helps to have the big picture. Check my web site and look at the tutorial page -- there are 3 articles about LR 3 that are still relevant and give a general picture of how best to utilize it.

    Best of luck with it!!

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    Thanks, Diane, this is very helpful. I haven't yet read your tutorials completely, at first glance, they look like they will be very helpful as well.

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    The changes you make in lightroom doesn't destroy your raw images. They are just appended to your raw images and don't change it. So when you use the same raw files in any other software, your raw images remain as raw.

    Even if you save images as tiff or jpeg in the same folder, you need to import it to lightroom to view it.

    Generally the last step is noise reduction. Most of the times if the exposure is correct, and if you don't crop your images massively, then the requirement for noise reduction is less and you can live with the default noise reduction in lightroom.

    I am not planning to upgrade from lightroom 4 to 5 as I am hardly doing stills these days.
    Cheers,
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    Thank you, Sabyasachi...very helpful!

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