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I typically shoot in raw, edit in LR5 (capture sharpening, WB, tone adjustments, etc.) and then import into CS6 for further editing (convert to TIFF, creative sharpening, further tonal adjustments). I like to do all of the initial capture sharpening and tonal adjustments in camera raw before the image is pixelized (converted from raw format) so this workflow works fine for single images but for images that are generated from multiple photos (HDR, panoramas, focus/star trail stacks) I am having trouble wrapping my head around an appropriate workflow that will allow me to edits in camera raw before the images are pixelized.
Typically I import as layers from LR5 to CS6, add masks, combine layers for stacks, etc. but at this point it seems like the images have been pixelized and any further tonal adjustments like, white balance are not being performed on the raw image. For images that will only stack 2 or 3 photos (i.e. landscape HDR by hand using layer masks) I import from LR5 to CS6 as smart objects (which embeds the raw file in the image so that the photos are not pixelized), add layers, save as PSD then open in LR5 to perform basic adjustments (sharpening, tone, etc.). There is no option to import multiple images as smart object layers from LR5 to CS6, I do that manually, 1 image at a time which would take up too much time when combining ~60 images to create star trails or a focus stack.
1) am I correct in that once you use the export to photoshop as layers option in LR5 the images are pixelaized and any adjustments made will no longer be to the raw image?
2) does anyone have any suggestions or examples of their own multi-images workflow?
Any thought/comments are greatly appreciated!
Typically I import as layers from LR5 to CS6, add masks, combine layers for stacks, etc. but at this point it seems like the images have been pixelized and any further tonal adjustments like, white balance are not being performed on the raw image. For images that will only stack 2 or 3 photos (i.e. landscape HDR by hand using layer masks) I import from LR5 to CS6 as smart objects (which embeds the raw file in the image so that the photos are not pixelized), add layers, save as PSD then open in LR5 to perform basic adjustments (sharpening, tone, etc.). There is no option to import multiple images as smart object layers from LR5 to CS6, I do that manually, 1 image at a time which would take up too much time when combining ~60 images to create star trails or a focus stack.
1) am I correct in that once you use the export to photoshop as layers option in LR5 the images are pixelaized and any adjustments made will no longer be to the raw image?
2) does anyone have any suggestions or examples of their own multi-images workflow?
Any thought/comments are greatly appreciated!