

That’s not to be sniffed at – round-tripping images is expensive both in terms of time and storage.

All in all, the new masking and selection tools make Lightroom significantly more powerful – in a lot of ways they become de facto adjustment layers, and in our experience, will save on round-tripping images out to Photoshop pretty often. Another power-user feature of the new masking and selection tools is the ability to name masks, which is another useful feature that Photoshop users will like.
