Photoshop with Lightroom....nice

[kalasinman]

Old news I know, but a discovery to me. The two compliment each other nicely. I went back to RAW with the Milky Way shot I posted earlier and came up with this after PS and LR.

Any suggestions more than welcome-Jack

[bruno]

Nice shot, I saw the video of Ls & PS must admit looked good  fellout with Ls because eveytime i wanted to do a picture it downloaded all of album  might have another go with itbut soon lose patience with it

[hobsey]

I agree with bruno, the downloading of all your images is quite annoying.

But once you get the picture up you want to edit, its superb.

Never used it for astro imaging yet.

[Psychobilly]

Thankfuly You can control what lightroom has access to ...  On my install its just a small image directory tree on one of my HDD... 

Peter...

[kalasinman]

In Lightroom, it previews the album then "uncheck all" and just check the images you want to work on. The output from DSS is too large a file for me to load direct to PS, so I open it in LR and just save it as a tiff, which seems to make PS happy. I can then do the stretching and things PS does well, then export and load into LR for the things it does well. For example the noise reduction, and the graduated filter is usefull for some gradients like images near the horizon.

[David_Pickles]

I use photoshop for all my editing as it is far more capable than lightroom, but I use lightroom for the storage, classification and adding metadata for all my images. I also like the fact that I can upload images to Flikr direct from the image library. As Kalasinman said above, you can deselect the images you don't want to import.

[kalasinman]

It really helps to have you stored images in folders by category, and even subfolders by date. Then LR is much easier.

Now to learn masks...........