02-04-2012, 04:37 PM
Good hints, William. Some are obvious (after you've seen how things work...like needing to dupe the layer before using PP and making sure all the layers you want to work on are merged), but it's nice to have them so people don't "learn the hard way". 
I might add (though it's probably not necessary) that RAW files need some post-camera processing by nature of them being, well, RAW. My work flow is always to get the image looking right (color, saturation, sharpness, etc.) out of RAW first and then using PPro if necessary. So for me, it looks like LightRoom (and develops) --> Photoshop (editing) --> PPro plugin (retouching) and save the file back to LR as PSD.
I might add (though it's probably not necessary) that RAW files need some post-camera processing by nature of them being, well, RAW. My work flow is always to get the image looking right (color, saturation, sharpness, etc.) out of RAW first and then using PPro if necessary. So for me, it looks like LightRoom (and develops) --> Photoshop (editing) --> PPro plugin (retouching) and save the file back to LR as PSD.
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