Retouch in Photoshop. Publish straight to the gallery.
Open Pixelshield originals in Photoshop, retouch them, and send the finished image back to the client gallery. Your layered document stays on your disk, untouched.
Photoshop
Three menu items, no panel to manage
The round trip
From gallery to Photoshop and back
Every step is one item under Plugins › Pixelshield.
Step 1
Open
Import from Pixelshield lists the originals in an event. Open selected downloads them as documents, already linked to their Pixelshield photos.
Step 2
Retouch
Layers, masks, actions, whatever you use. Nothing about how you work in Photoshop changes.
Step 3
Publish
Publish to Pixelshield shows where the image will land, usually the event it came from, then uploads a flattened copy to that album.
Step 4
Re-publish
Publish the same photo again and it replaces the earlier edit instead of adding a duplicate.
What it does
Made for retouching in Photoshop without a Lightroom catalogue in front of it.
Publishing exports a copy. Your layered document stays open and is never saved over.
Each edit uploads as a new photo linked to its original. Originals are never replaced.
Photos opened from Pixelshield already know their event, so the common case needs no choices at publish time.
One API key per plugin, so connecting Photoshop won’t disturb your Lightroom connection.
Good to know
Needs Photoshop 25 or newer and the Creative Cloud desktop app.
Publishes JPEG at maximum quality (12), which is visually lossless for viewing and delivery. TIFF and PSD aren’t supported for publishing.
Listed on Adobe Exchange, so it installs and updates through the Creative Cloud desktop app like any other plugin.
Set up
Connected in three steps
Photoshop plugins install through Creative Cloud, so there’s no folder to find.
Open the Pixelshield listing on Adobe Exchange and click Get. Creative Cloud installs it into Photoshop.
Sign in to Pixelshield and create an API key in Settings › Integrations (name it “Photoshop”).
In Photoshop, run Plugins › Pixelshield › Pixelshield Account… and paste the key.
FAQ
Questions photographers ask
Usually not. With Lightroom, Edit In › Photoshop plus “Add Photoshop Edits to Pixelshield” already covers retouching. This plugin is for Photoshop without a Lightroom catalogue.
From Adobe Exchange, Adobe’s own plugin marketplace. Click Get on the Pixelshield listing and Creative Cloud installs it. Connecting it to your studio needs a paid Pixelshield plan with Adobe Photoshop Integration; the Free Trial doesn’t include it.
Photoshop’s plugin API can’t write TIFF, and clients download the delivered file, where a 100 MB TIFF won’t open on most phones. A maximum-quality JPEG looks identical for viewing and delivery, while your layered master stays on your disk.
Every paid plan, from Professional up, includes both Lightroom Integration and Adobe Photoshop Integration, so you never pay for the plugins separately. The Free Trial doesn’t include them. See Pricing for the full comparison.
Bring Photoshop into your delivery workflow
Included on every paid plan, from Professional up. The Free Trial doesn’t include the Adobe plugins.
See pricing