P: Most functions in Edit, Image, Layer, Select and Filter grayed out for image opened from LrC

Sorry to hear that Jeffrey, I hope you are fully fit now. 

I guess the radio silence meant no-one else was available to provide information, commentary or even to shine a wee bit of light on this issue?

Sorry, I've been out for a while with pneumonia. I can't give any exact details but it will be fixed in the next update.

Thank you for the links but knowing a bit more about when this issue is going to be sorted would have been much more helpful. Still, you're the first Adobe person to post here in quite a while, so thanks for that too.

Known issues are here: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/known-issues.html

Updates/fixes are posted here: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/fixed-issues.html

It is very simple. But some people would rather vent then fix the temporary problem. 

The answer to this problem is simple: go to Preferences/General in Photoshop and tick the second option down - disable home screen. Problem solved! It's a new feature that has been added without realising it affected LR, but it is quite unnecessary so tick the box and it goes away and LR and PS work as usual.

Bob Frost

Let's cut the name calling and encourage Adobe to become a quality, reliable, supplier of imaging software which works out of the box hassle free.  A change of internal culture is what is needed and wanted.

Thanks for reinforcing my critique.  I shouldn't have to look all over the Adobe universe to find that information.  It's one thing to post links all over that point back to one source of truth, and it's another to have that information spread all over in bits and pieces like some easter egg hunt.  The winner gets an informed decision on to install an upgrade.  The losers spend hours searching, well, everywhere and potentially getting bad advice in the process.

>>I mean you seem like someone who just likes to hear themselves talk but you really have a vague understanding of U.S. law when it comes to software.
The facts bud:
https://labs.adobe.com/technologies/eula/lightroom.html
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