Honestly, either one of these is going to be perfectly fine the only real difference I would say is that TIF is a little bit more of a universal file type which can be opened in other programs and PSD, which stands for Photoshop Document, is meant to be specifically opened with Photoshop. The two options that you get for file format are TIF file or PSD file. Tiff File Format Image File Formats: Tiff File Format or PSD File Format

The first box here Edit in Photoshop will show the most recent version of Photoshop you have installed and it gives you some choices about File Format, Color Space, Bit Depth, and other options for how we want to ship the image over. External Editing Preferences in Lightroom Classic This is the place where we going to determine some settings for how our images get shipped over to Photoshop to work on them. Then we’re going to come up to where it says Lightroom at the top here, choose Preferences, and we want to look at the External Editing tab.

Preferences in Lightroom Classic External Editing Preferences Do everything that you can in Lightroom first. I’ve already done my developments to the best of my ability in the Basic Panel, recover tonality, etc. Let’s assume that this is the image I’d like to send to Lightroom. Develop your image in Lightroom Classic Develop Your Image in Lightroom First To do that, we’re going to look at some preferences in Lightroom. The problem is we need to make sure that the image is set up to move to Photoshop in the best way possible, preserving as much data as we can. Whether that’s in-depth retouching, specific masking, or other things that need to be done in Photoshop. Sometimes you may have an image that needs further work beyond what Lightroom can do. Today we’re going to be discussing sending an image from Adobe Lightroom Classic to Photoshop using the optimal settings. Watch our short video tutorial or read on for our guide to setting your Lightroom Classic preferences for editing Lightroom photos in Photoshop.

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