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March 7, 2012

P: Edit In External Editor does not work/function

  • March 7, 2012
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I can not send images from LR4 to any external editor via Photo>Edit In. My system is Mac OS 10.7.3. Using the Edit In command fails to open the external editor and no error message results. This occurs whether the images have the 2012 Process Version applied or not. My external editors are primarily PSE10 and Nik Silver Efex Pro 2.0. This is an important part of my workflow.

I have reinstalled PSE10 and updated to the newest version of Silver Efex Pro.

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    NijL
    Participant
    March 12, 2012
    I'm on MAC with Lion and have the same problem not being able to edit in Element from Lightroom 4. Not an option to revert to the beta version as I loose my catalogue information. Hope Adobe get this major bug fixed quickly.
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    NijL
    Participant
    March 12, 2012
    I'm on MAC with Lion and have the same problem not being able to edit in Elements 10 from Lightroom 4. Not an option to revert to the beta version as I loose my catalogue information. Hope Adobe get this major bug fixed quickly.
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    aksarben43
    Participant
    March 12, 2012
    I suppose I had a premonition when I decided to keep LR3 installed after I downloaded the "improved?" LR4 version.
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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    March 12, 2012
    I think we now have enough evidence that this is a bug ;)

    The joys of being an early adopter I guess.

    Sad that there is no official response nor fix from Adobe.
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    justme06
    Participating Frequently
    March 12, 2012
    Nope wont work. Code modules obviously changed from Lr4 Beta and Lr4 and one module appears to contain an error. (mistakes do happen on occasion)

    Fortunatly on windows machines like yours it is not too bad. For the present time you need to do one of the following 3 things:

    1 - Wait for Adobe official patch
    or
    2 - Download and install CS5 trial or elements trial
    or
    3 - Use the notepad registry patch mentioned above
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    J453
    Legend
    March 12, 2012
    That's correct, having a copy of Photoshop CS5 installed (the free trial on Adobe.com will work) is a workaround - not a great one - but yes, it should work.
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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    March 12, 2012
    I'm having the same problem with inability to edit with Silver efex pro 2.0 after installing LR4. It did work previously with LR4 beta on my Windows 7 64bit computer. Tried uninstalling and re-installing both programs to no avail.
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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    March 12, 2012
    I can confirm on OSX Lion that installing Photoshop CS 5 does allow Lightroom to use "Edit in" apps again. So that's a valid (but not great) work around until they get this fixed.
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    jim4496
    Participating Frequently
    March 12, 2012
    Thanks JustMe06.
    The registry patch worked for me on Win7.
    I can now access my Topaz Labs Plugins and PaintShop Pro.

    Wonder how long it will take Adobe to issue a fix, now that the cause has been identified.
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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    March 12, 2012
    This worked with PSE10 on my windows 7 machine. Go to regedit, then to
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\

    (add) PhotoshopElementsEditor.exe

    (Default) C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Photoshop Elements 10\PhotoshopElementsEditor.exe

    (Path) C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Photoshop Elements 10

    Good Luck!
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