![]() Photoshop opens the file directly, and when you save that file again, and each time thereafter, you’re making those Photoshop adjustments permanent. When you take any image out of Bridge or Lightroom and into Photoshop, however, your editing will become more destructive. You can only ever create a new JPG, TIF, or DNG file from that original file, which is when the “destructive” adjustments are involved. This means that you’re not actually affecting the original file, whether it is a RAW, JPG, TIF, or PSD file format. Non-Destructive Versus Destructive EditsĪs we described earlier, any editing that you perform in Adobe Camera Raw, whether through the Bridge interface or the Lightroom interface, is considered “non-destructive”. Last but not least, let’s discover how the non-destructive raw processing of Lightroom and Camera raw differs from actually taking a file into Photoshop. (NOTE: If you use Lightroom to import, organize, and edit your files, try to refrain from ever moving your folders of original raw files outside of Lightroom ALWAYS use Lightroom to physically move folders from one drive or storage location to another! Otherwise, Lightroom will not know where the folder went, and you’ll have to relocate it from within Lightroom.) Camera Raw and Lightroom vs Photoshop If you generate Standard and Smart Previews for all the files in your Lightroom catalog, you will only ever have to actually attach your external hard drives if you’re going to export an image in high-res, or physically move a folder of original raw photos on your hard drive. Or, if you’d like to be able to edit your photos remotely and even export low-res versions for using on social media, just generate “Smart Previews” in your Lightroom catalog, and you’re good to go! Just generate “Standard Previews” in Lightroom, and you can view your photos at any time. This is especially beneficial if you have many months or years worth of raw photos stored on one or more external hard drives, and you don’t want to always carry your external hard drive(s) everywhere you go. The Advantage Of Non-Destructive Raw EditingĪnother major advantage of having a Lightroom Catalog is that you can create previews of all your raw files, and then continue viewing and even editing them even when the original files are not available. ![]() However, you can actually configure Adobe Bridge to not launch Photoshop at all, and simply use its own Camera Raw engine to edit (and save/export) images 100% within Bridge.īridge, therefore, actually qualifies as both a standard browser application and a shortcut to the Camera Raw editing interface. To be precise, Adobe Bridge uses the Camera Raw interface to process files, once you double-click on a raw file.īy default, double-clicking on a raw file in Adobe Bridge will actually launch Adobe Photoshop and use the Camera Raw interface through that separate application. What is Camera Raw? What is Adobe Bridge?īefore we go any further, let’s clear up one thing: Adobe Bridge is Camera Raw. These days there are multiple versions of Lightroom, but yes, indeed, they all still use the same Camera Raw processing engine. The two main applications Adobe offers are Adobe Bridge, and Adobe Lightroom. Simply put, the interface is different, but the final result when you save/export a raw file from Adobe will be identical if you apply the same adjustments. How is this possible? There are different options in how you view and organize your raw photos, but when it comes down to the actual editing, making adjustments like contrast, curves…Adobe is using the same raw “engine” to do those adjustments. One of the first things you have to understand about editing your raw photos is, what software should you choose?Īdobe offers multiple ways to edit your raw photos however, they’re basically all the same. Home » Blog » Lightroom Tutorials » Camera Raw vs Lightroom ![]()
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