

I’ve never been one who photographs in colour and occasionally dabbles with black and white. OK, now why? I tend to assume there’s a fair chance you’ll want to fine tune the raw …read more Good reasons might be you’re running out of hard drive space, or you have an earlier version of Photoshop than your version of Lightroom. Unless you’ve a good reason, I would always choose Open as Smart Object. “Edit in” or “Open as Smart Object” in Photoshop? Do all your corrections in LR then select the image, right click and choose Edit In > Open as Smart Object in Photoshop. What’s your workflow to Nik software? If you own Lightroom and Photoshop, Photoshop “smart objects” are the best way to use Nik apps. “Readable and inspiring”, says Amateur Photographer magazine.

My Advanced Digital Black and White Photography is now available. Now it’s free, I can’t see any good reasons why you wouldn’t get it. I’ve always been a fan of Silver Efex Pro, and only really questioned its price. Google may not have made significant improvements to the Nik desktop apps since they acquired them, but I don’t see any downside here. Yesterday Google announced that they are making the Nik Collection available to everyone, for free. Although my starting point is LR, I always launch Silver Efex this way, via Photoshop as Smart Object.
