P: Photoshop/Lightroom Mobile: Edit in interoperability for iPad

Roundtripping now! Yes!

This weekend I have looked closer at PS for iPad and I looking for how to edit Lightroom photos in PS on the iPad. I was looking for a long time because it did not even occur to me that such an essential feature could be missing. For me PS is pretty much useless until this is implemented. This must be prio 1 everything else is just bonus.

This has been asked for/suggested before yet I want to emphasize the importance/need for the ability to export to Photoshop from Lightroom and back in iOS environment. Needed this yesterday. Please Adobe team. Get on this. 

Very true. Nothing really excuses the lack of real photoshop for iPad from the very beginning. 3 basically useless apps are a ridiculous offering from a company with the enormous resources Adobe has. They seem to keep adding more and more software that not all that many people need or want, rather than offer real working apps for the iPad, which is really more and more becoming a real tool. I do both photo retouching and graphic design, and I've been doing a lot of my graphic design on Affinity Designer lately, because I can do it on the desktop OR the iPad, and there are no compromises in either platform. And it WORKS! Affinity Photo is a great program, I'm just not wild about how it handles masks. Perhaps I simply haven't played with it enough, guess I should. I find Art Studio quite workable for a lot of basic functions, and have used it for some images in my graphic design work. And both of those programs are purchases, I own them, forever! 
Meanwhile, my subscription based Photoshop (desktop) suddenly (and for the last few months) continually crashes when saving to an external drive. Something I've done for years. And I've seen others complain about the same issue, yet Adobe is doing nothing about it. The latest update did nothing to fix that.

It is frustrating that Adobe released Photoshop on the iPad without raw support and Lightroom roundtrip. I understand it wouldn’t be full featured at launch, but those are basic workflow musts. I’ve been using Lightroom and then Affinity Photo for my iPad workflow currently. I haven’t tried Art Studio yet. I don’t think the subscription revenue can explain Adobe’s iOS apps’ lack of functionality though, they get the same monthly amount wherever you use their apps.

I figured out using the ‘export as’ to get the option for a 16bit tiff instead of the ‘share to’ which defaults to jpeg. This is much better, but like you said it is not a true, synced roundtrip and without that, and with the current nerfed state of Photoshop on the iPad, there’s no real reason not to export the tiff to Affinity Photo instead.

You are correct using the ‘export as’ and selecting 16bit tiff is much better than using the ‘share to’ and getting a compressed jpeg. But until adobe increases the functionality of Photoshop on the ipad and/or has a seamlessly synced roundtrip like on the desktop, there’s still no advantages (only disadvantages) in choosing to export the tiff to Photoshop instead of Affinity Photo.

Exactly, convoluted. That’s not the way things should work. You shouldn’t need a workaround for a basic task.