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

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November 4, 2019
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Brand new Photoshop for iPad is a great advance. Within Lightroom on the iPad I immediately looked for a way to directly export to PS, as one can do on the desktop with an "edit in" command. After the PS edit is complete and saved, the file instantly becomes a part of the LR library. This seems to be an obviously missing feature in iOS. Did I miss it, or is this a planned upgrade feature?

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thomasnashAuthor

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I had tried your workflow, and retried it after reading your comment. LR creates a maximum size jpg to send to PS. That's not acceptable. One wants the raw (nef for Nikon) to go to PS and I can see no straightforward way to do that.

I tried to Export Original to files. Adobe Document Cloud is greyed out. I did manage to save to my Desktop folder (this is the desktop on my desktop mac) in Apple iCloud Drive. PS on the iPad could not recognize the file (Unsupported File Format). PS on the desktop correctly opened it into Camera Raw as a nef file.

Conclusion is PS for the iPad does not have Camera Raw available. And there is no way to work around and do the equivalent of an "edit in" Photoshop from LR for iPad.

I sure hope this is on the short range radar and that they can swing some iOS expertise back to LR for iPad as improvements are getting delayed badly on iOS apparently I would guess while the PS for iPad development gets priority.