Workflow - Timing between PS and Lightroom

I'm new to Lightroom and PS, and love both :-)
I'm wondering, do most people do their processing in PS or Lightroom first?
My instinct tells me to get the exposure, crop, etc. as I want it in LR and then do any PS processing after that. But wouldn't this then "lock in" any changes made in LR? Once you save back from PS, your lightroom changed are concrete - is this correct?
Thanks for any advice!
Gavin
www.gavinsteiner.com

First of all, I will assume that you are talking about working on raw images. My workflow is always to do as much as I possibly can in Lightroom and then turn to Photoshop when necessary. About 90% of the time I don't even use Photoshop. I rely on it mostly for panorama stitching and occasionally some more extensive cloning.
When a raw image is sent to Photoshop all changes that have been made in Lightroom will be included. And any additional changes made in Photoshop will be included in that image. When it is saved and you are returned to Lightroom the image that was worked on in Photoshop will be saved as a separate image. That copy will include all of the Lightroom and Photoshop, and those changes will be "baked" into that image. However, the original raw image will still be in its Lightroom edited stage. Those changes can still be undone and you can do whatever you want to that image.
If you send a JPEG image to Photoshop, one of the options is to send the original image. If you choose to do that than any of the changes made in Photoshop will become part of the master image you see in Lightroom.

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