P: CC jumps to front when opening files in the background.

Hi Rob,

So when you use the Image Processor on a PC you're also seeing this behavior? 

“Only macs”. Lol. No

Hi Isaac,

When you say that it doesn't help you were you referring to the workaround I mentioned above? Did you try enabling "Open Documents As Tabs"?

Preferences > Workspace > Open Documents As Tabs 



Regarding your second issue, what OS are you on? Would you mind creating another thread for that since it is a different issue? 

Thanks,
Hannah

Doesn't help me, when batch processing files I can't work in other apps because photos keep coming to the front for each new file. 

Also, I am still having this problem when I open photos Photoshop does NOT come to the front. This is very annoying as I then have to click on the photoshop icon to bring it up with all the tools and history. Is there a setting so that the whole program will come to the front when an image is opened???

With regard to the Image Processor, that is a separate, known issue related only to Macs. There is a workaround for that issue but it is not resolved yet. The workaround is to  "Open Documents As Tabs." 

Preferences > Workspace > Open Documents As Tabs




Let me know how that goes for you.

Thanks,
Hannah

Hannah????

Not resolved for me either. And yes, it's insane to have this ignored for this long. Years. PS still steals the screen when running files through Image Processor. Every time. So if I'm running 50 images through Image Processor, I'm locked out of every other function on my computer until the task has completed. Complete paralyzation. All i can do to stop it from happening is revert back to older versions of CC. Like 2014.  Which is kind of hard to swallow when I'm paying monthly for what should be the most current version of Photoshop. As for 19.0.1, I'm not seeing that as an offered update yet. 

2018 year, PS 19.0 and still the issue persists. Photoshop pops out after each imported photo. PC becomes unusable for the import time. that is crazy

2018 year, PS 19.0 and still the issue persists. Photoshop pops out after each imported photo. PC becomes unusable for the import time. that is crazy

Not here I'm sorry to report. 19.0.1 on Mac. It stills forces its way to the front when launching, a number of times when I'm sending files to it from LR and it's still possible to crash the tasks by taking the focus back to LR at the wrong moment. Sometimes, when left alone, I can load maybe five or six pairs of images in layers in one queue. At other times I'll come back and find only one image loaded and a layer named "Load Layers". Start again...