P: give us the same 'Edit in' dialog for Photoshop as all of the other Editing Programs

It would be great if Lightroom had a preset to:

Edit in > Edit in Adobe Photoshop (or Photoshop Bet)

What to Edit:

* Edit a copy with Lightroom Adjustments

Copy file Options:

File Format: JPEG

Bit Depth: pick from list

Resolution: specify

Having that preset in the Edit in section would eliminate the current 17 step process that I have described in the Lightroom Forum as follows:

The process to edit a jpeg in Photoshop from Lightroom, and get it back in Lightroom is as follows:

1. Select 'Edit in' ...whichever version of Photoshop you wish to edit in
2. Decide what to edit ...a copy, or the original
3. THERE IS NO OPTION TO CHOOSE WHAT FILE FORMAT TO EDIT IN
4. Do your editing in PS
5. Select 'File >Save a copy'
6. Navigate to the folder you want it in. The originating folder would make sense so as to have the edit beside the original for comparison, however the folder PS defaults to is the last one saved to, which might be several drives and multiple layers of folders away from the originating one, so that navigation must be performed first. THERE IS NO OPTION IN PHOTOSHOP TO SAVE A JPEG TO THE ORIGINATING FOLDER UNLESS YOU ACCEPT THE DEFAULT TIFF OPTION. IF YOU DON'T, ADOBE INFLICTS THE FOLLOWING PUNISHMENT:
7. Select the JPEG format because PS always defaults to Tiff
8. Click Save
9. Select the JPEG quality and format options wanted
10. Click OK to save it AND PHOTOSHOP SAVES IT AND UNLIKE ANY OTHER PROGRAM ON THE PLANET IT DOES NOT ADD THAT EDITED IMAGE BACK INTO LIGHTROOM
11. Go back into LrC, to that folder
12. Select Synchronize Folder
13. You must make sure the "Show Import dialog before importing" is checked since there may be photos in that folder that were removed intentionally from the catalog that you don't want re-imported at this point
14. Click "Uncheck All" and then find the image that was just exported from PS and check that one
15. Click Import
16. That image then shows up in the 'Previous Import' window and then
17. Right click on it to "Go to folder in Library

And finally after that totally ridiculous 17 step abuse of the Adobe subscriber's time, we are where we wanted to be.

And finally after that totally ridiculous 17 step abuse of the Adobe subscriber's time, we are where we wanted to be.

Steps 12-15 can be done skipped if one
11. Reduce LrC to a smaller window
12. Open Finder or Explorer and reduce that to a smaller window
13. Navigate to the folder containing the newly edited image
14. Find that image
15. Drag that image into LrC.

I have been requesting this for years and do not understand why Adobe will not provide that functionality in that all the following LrC plugin suppliers do:

• DxO PureRAW (no point in doing anything in LrC first because it will only work on a copy of the original)
• Topaz DeNoise AI
• Topaz Sharpen AI
• Topaz Photo Ai
• Nik Collection
• Alien Skin
• Imagenomic Portraiture
• Retouch4Me
• Aurora HDR
• Helicon Focus
• Luminar AI
• Luminar Neo
• EVOTO

Another user on the LR Forums, (a Senior Member) responded to this there, describing another problem he encountered when testing this process. He only shoots RAW and doesn't save as JPEGS and was only trying it out of interest. I don't want to re-write and insert all his images seperately so I'm including the following screenshot of it that contains the detail. He suggested it should be reported as a BUG but didn't want to involve himself in that because he onlyworks with RAW, PSD, TIF etc.

Thanks for responding GoldingD. Regarding multiple saves of JPEG, I try not to do that. Instead I just re-edit from my 'mother' file (the original JPEG catalogued in LR). That has the Crop, Keywords, Rating, Tonal and WB adjustments so It becomes the 'mother' for any edits I do. I work the same way from RAW and never want the 'big' files unless needing to work with their layers later on, like for a publication or when used as a template, etc. Cheers.

So, to clarify, or simplify

Author wants to shoot in JPEG, edit the JPEG in LrC, not convert in any way. And wants to Edit a Cop[y with LrC Adjustments in PS, and have PS return with a JPEG, not a TIFF or PSD

And author desires this to be presented as a set of options when clicking on Edit in PS, and not have to set that up in /preferences/external editing/ in advance (where, no, JPEG is not currently offered)

If you ignore any mindset of shoot RAW only, if you ignore degradation of quality upon multiple saves of JPEG (it may not be that bad, and JPEG shooters deal with that already) this makes sense. Also, if you sometimes prefer to have PS come back with a simpler TIFF but at other times come back with a PSD, it also makes sense.

I will vote in favor.

I would think that more formats should be included, DNG for example (basically all formats supported in export), And would adding a button to Include in Catalog be called for? And would a stacking button be called for?