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

I’m sorry, but this is Adobe we’re talking about, not some small coder working out a new app. What Adobe has given us both with Lightroom Mobile and Photoshop for iPad are inferior products (as were the original iterations of the 3 flavors of photoshop mobile). This is nonsense. Affinity managed to give us robust full-featured apps with all the bells and whistles. There is a “small coder” out there with an app called Art Studio which is surprisingly like Photoshop, has 10 times more features than Adobe’s Photoshop, and works great. It just amazes me that Adobe has dropped the ball so badly with two of their flagship apps. Lightroom mobile, while good in its own right, is severely handicapped by the round trip issue and the fact that it ONLY uses one catalog. And Photoshop, after all the hype about the iPad version, has only about 10% of the features it should have. My only guess is Adobe doesn’t want you to use the iPad because then they can’t extort the subscription money from you like they do on the desktop. I have had projects which I tried to do in PSD for iPad and given up and used Art Studio because it has the features. I still need to use Adobe products for my work, but the way they are going, we will have VERY viable alternatives very soon. It’s really a shame because photoshop is an amazing program, but Adobe has gotten too big for anyone’s good.

Agree, this is ideal but it might not be doable on iPadOs at the moment, thus not in the adobe's realm. Now what we have is good enough to start working with photoshop on ipad and it would way better to get some more filters, curves and blend if.

This isn’t a true round trip, just a workaround. It creates a TIFF file that is then imported into Photoshop and converted to a PSDC file. Once you finish editing, you have to export it back out as a TIFF or JPEG and import it back into Lightroom. Now you have a PSDC file AND a TIFF, taking up more online storage.

Ideally, the import conversion should be automatic, the file should be auto-synced back to Lightroom, and Lightroom has full support for PSDC files.

 You need to check if you have the "original" file on the iPad and download it if it is in the cloud. This will not work if you imported raw files in lightroom classic and shared as collection - iPad's lightroom will only see a smart preview. I'm not aware of a way to push up in the cloud original raw file if it was imported in lightroom classic.

In any way when doing "share to" or "edit in" from lightroom you need to first tap on the small icon on the right in the menu and configure how to "export" - there you can chose tiff, 16 bit and color space. Please note that every expost method has its own settings. Then you select photoshop and it will import the file and store it to its own cloud. Once ready you can share from photoshop to lightroom in the same way.

People are commenting that this works now, but it does not. All Lightroom Mobile does is export a compressed jpeg for Photoshop Mobile. There is still no way to stay raw and go back and forth between Lightroom and Photoshop like on desktop. Without this seamless raw workflow there is no advantage to using Photoshop Mobile over Affinity Photo, which is still much more feature rich.

Thanks so much again - convoluted but it did work!!

Again not exactly intuitive. Go into PS (latest version) on your desktop. You should find the photo you saved in PS for iPad in Cloud documents. You can then open it and "save as" to somewhere you choose on your desktop (might have to duplicate so a version stays in Cloud docs). Then import in to LR Classic. You can reverse the process to get back to PS for iPad. 

Maybe someday there will be real integration of files for all LR and PS products...

OK so was able to move a photo from Lightroom Classic to LR for iPad and then with the above instructions move it to PS for iPad. Yay!!

So I made some changes and then was able to see the changed photo in the Creative Cloud Ap on iPad but how do I get a changed photo from PS iPad back to Lightroom Classic on my desktop.

Fantastic help - Thank You!!!!

It is possible, but not obvious or intuitive.

First in LR for iPad click ... in upper right, then click Select, then select image, then at bottom click Share, then click Export As, then choose tif as file type, then click check mark in upper right corner of dialog, then scroll far right in Apps display and click on ... icon labelled More, then under Suggestions, scroll down to click Copy to Photoshop, then enjoy PS.

In that last Apps dialog, you can click in upper right hand corner on Edit and then make Copy to Photoshop one of your favorites so it will appear near the front of the horizontal Apps display and save a couple of steps.

Soon, I am sure we will be able to accomplish all this with one seamless click from LR. Maybe even soon, we will have direct access to Camera Raw in PS and not have to convert to tif.