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jdalrymp
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October 13, 2021
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P: Ability to drag from Lightroom onto another app (Win10)

  • October 13, 2021
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It seems on a Mac you can drag a RAW image from LR Grid View onto an other app. On my Win 10 system I can't do this, has anyone got it to work? 

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    jjaylad
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    May 2, 2022

    Today, Dave Cross'sVirtual Summit 2022 started and there's Julieanne Kost demonstrating how to drag and drop multiple photos from Lightroom to Photoshop.

    Like millions of other people I'm on a Windows 10 computer. 

    I had seen her demonstrate that in one of the videos on Adobe, and had tried it unsuccessfully. All I get is a circle with a line through it when I hover the dragged images over  a new document in Photoshop.

    Failing to find a way to contact Julieanne to ask for further explanation, I contacted Adobe Customer Support.

    A seemingly well informed agent spent 30 minutes on my computer trying to make it work. We watched Julieanne's video together and he still could not. He then consulted with his "mission control" and reported back that THE FEATURE ONLY WORKS ON MAC COMPUTERS AND NOT ON WINDOWS.

    2 problems here

    a) that it doesn't work on Windows

    b) that Adobe would allow these videos to be posted without so much as the courtesy of informing    Windows users that the feature will not work on their equipment.

    So, I'm reporting two BUGS. 1 for a) and one for b).

    Hopefully someone reading this can get this to folks who can resolve the issue.

    Thanks

     

    jane-e
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    jane-eCommunity Expert
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    May 3, 2022

    Failing to find a way to contact Julieanne to ask for further explanation, I contacted Adobe Customer Support.

    By @jjaylad

     

     

    Did you try any of the links on Julieanne's contact page?

    https://jkost.net/contact

     

     

    or go to the event site > click "need help" > support and fill out a support request?

    https://www.pssummit.com/

     

     

    Jane

     

     

    Rob_Cullen
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    Rob_CullenCommunity Expert
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    October 14, 2021

    There is a PLUGIN that will 'EXPORT' an image to the Windows Clipboard.

    It takes two mouse clicks. I havn't used extensively but it will Insert (Ctrl+v) the clipboard image in an Ms-Word document.

    Copy to Clipboard - A plug-in for Lightroom Classic

     

     

    Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.1.1, Photoshop 27.3.1, ACR 18.1.1, Lightroom 9.0, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.2 .
    johnrellis
    johnrellis
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    October 13, 2021

    Moderators, @Rikk Flohr: Photography : Please move this to Ideas. (There's an existing feature request for dragging to LR to start an import, as you can on Mac, but I couldn't find any feature request for dragging from LR to other apps.)

    JohanElzenga
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    JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
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    October 13, 2021

    Yes, you can do that on a Mac, but the usefulness of that action is very limited. What will happen is that the unedited raw file is opened in the app, so all the work you did in Lightroom will have to be done again in that app (and of course that app must be a raw converter).  This is even true when you drag it onto the Photoshop icon. Camera Raw will open, but the Lightroom edits will not be filled in already.

     

    -- Johan W. Elzenga
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      jdalrympAuthor
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      October 13, 2021

      Yeah, I know that, but in this case that's what I want to happen. The situation was using Topaz Denoise AI in RAW mode on very noisy images, I'd end up with a camera RAW and a denoised DNG copy. It would have saved manually firing up the Topaz app and fidning and opening up the RAW file, then navigating back to LR.

       

      I agree, it's not a feature with a lot of uses.

      JohanElzenga
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      JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
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      October 13, 2021

      What you can do is use the 'Show in Windows Explorer' menu in Lightroom. That will select the raw file in Explorer. Then you can drag it onto Topaz.

       

      -- Johan W. Elzenga
        dj_paige
        dj_paige
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        October 13, 2021

        Not possible on Windows.

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          jdalrympAuthor
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          October 13, 2021

          Cheers.

           

          I'd count that as a bug - it's not a Windows restriction as I can do it out of the Olympus raw handling program. It's a facility that's used in a Topaz tutorial on denoising raw files, saves a couple of steps in the workflow.

          dj_paige
          dj_paige
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          October 13, 2021

          Not a bug. It was never designed to work this way on Windows, so it is working as expected.

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