Lightroom and Photoshop workflow [last question!!]

Is your Lightroom workflow for scanned images different than for your native digital photos?

If you use Photoshop along with Lightroom for your native digital photos, does your Photoshop workflow change when you are working with a scanned image?

This is my last question. Again, thank you for reading and replying to these threads. I know I'm very late to the game for scanning.

Phil Burton

PhilBurton said:

Is your Lightroom workflow for scanned images different than for your native digital photos?

If you use Photoshop along with Lightroom for your native digital photos, does your Photoshop workflow change when you are working with a scanned image?

This is my last question. Again, thank you for reading and replying to these threads. I know I'm very late to the game for scanning.

Phil Burton

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No, my working methods are exactly the same no matter what I am working on. Once it is in the computer it is a file that I open in PS and then I do what I do to it
( levels dust &c ). I saw all the other questions you have posted. Good luck with your project!
John

Yes, they are very different for me. I do the color conversion in PS, and due to the color mask, I don't have as much latitude with film so I can't push the colors as much if I want to. Plus there's no need for dust removal in digital photography (or shouldn't be). Film usually takes me a lot longer. Also, with digital, I can manipulate the raw files before I import them, which changes my workflow significantly. Also sharpening is way different with digital. If I sharpened film like I do digital, it'll make the grain unbearable.

But mostly I'm doing the same things using the same tools, trying to get to the same place. The biggest differences are the degrees to which I use each tool.

PhilBurton said:

Is your Lightroom workflow for scanned images different than for your native digital photos?

If you use Photoshop along with Lightroom for your native digital photos, does your Photoshop workflow change when you are working with a scanned image?

This is my last question. Again, thank you for reading and replying to these threads. I know I'm very late to the game for scanning.

Phil Burton

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No. For images I take digitally, and images I take on film it's all done in Lightroom. Lightroom's Develop Module has 99% of pretty much most everything you'd reasonably do to an image taken with a camera, and for the other 1%, its Photoshop.

It used to be different. At one time, I worked the scans over in Photoshop first, then moved the semi-finished images to Lightroom for captions, keywords and cataloging. My rational was - I like to do most of the major editing on the 16 bit TIFFs, but after the heavy lifting was done, I could reduce the file size to 8 bit TIFFs for storage in Lightroom. If I saved the original raw scans, it was outside of Lightroom, and could be archived on another disc, if necessary.

More recently I have started photographing my negatives, and the RAW files from my 16MP camera are smaller than the film scanner files. Now I import the RAW camera files directly into Lightroom, then Edit them in Photoshop for the inversion, contrast, cropping, local adjustments and dust removal. Back in Lightroom I do the final fine tuning, and cataloging. With this method, both the RAW file and the edited TIFF are cataloged in Lightroom, tho at the cost of storing duplicate files. When I "Edit in Photoshop" Lightroom creates a 16 bit TIFF, but after I am done editing I save that as an 8 bit TIFF.

jim10219 said:

Yes, they are very different for me. I do the color conversion in PS, and due to the color mask, I don't have as much latitude with film so I can't push the colors as much if I want to. Plus there's no need for dust removal in digital photography (or shouldn't be). Film usually takes me a lot longer. Also, with digital, I can manipulate the raw files before I import them, which changes my workflow significantly. Also sharpening is way different with digital. If I sharpened film like I do digital, it'll make the grain unbearable.

But mostly I'm doing the same things using the same tools, trying to get to the same place. The biggest differences are the degrees to which I use each tool.

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Thanks for these points, especially about sharpening.