I use multiple plugins from Lightroom. My question is when I send my first raw image from Lightroom to lets say Define/2 for noise reduction and it does its thing and comes back to Lightroom as a tif. Can I keep doing this with all the plug ins until I am done with all the editing and then save it just once? After the define edit I might go to Viveze then to Sharpener Pro and then to Genuine Fractals 6. After the first image is changed from a raw to a tif I wanted to make sure each of the edits to that tif are all on the same tif and that I am not getting a new seperate tif every time I go back and forth.
Thanks in advance .
Yes you can go to these programs. However, it's my understanding that you should use Genuine Fractals before output sharpening. Personally, I would round trip to PS and use all these programs. This way you can keep these actions organized on differret layers, combined with other PS actions, and saved in one file. I can't tell you how many times I have regretted going to far or not far enough with a Nik filter only to find out I have flattened the layer and can't undo. Also, you can bring the image back to LR as a PSD, which is smaller than a tif. Of course, even saved as a tif is smaller than having several tifs on that file--that is a lot of HD real estate.