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Using Open as Layers in Photoshop

Using Open as Layers in Photoshop

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Using Open as Layers in Photoshop

- [Instructor] By this point in the course you've now learned the core workflows for starting with either a RAW file or a non-RAW file and passing it from Lightroom to Photoshop and back again for editing. But there are a few other ways to move images back and forth between Lightroom Classic and Photoshop, and I wanted to make sure you knew about those. The first is the Open As Layers in Photoshop command. So let's say that you wanted to make a composite of several different images and you'd like to pass them from Lightroom Classic over to Photoshop and have them all end up as layers in a single file. That's what this command is for, so let's go ahead and try that using these three images, which are in the Open As Layers subfolder in the exercise files that you can see here in the Library module in the Folders panel on the left. I'm going to click on the frame of the first of these photos, and then I'll hold the shift key…

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