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February 5, 2023
Question

changing photo dimension in Photoshop may cause problem in Lightroom

  • February 5, 2023
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When I process my photos in Photoshop often I extend edges so instead 2:3 photo I have 4:5 photo, so I could upload it correctly into Instagram.

 

So the NEF file in Lightroom is in 2:3. I can click "Edit in Photoshop" and edit it without changing aspect, save it as tiff, so in the Lightroom it appears as 2:3. But then, I can come back to Photoshop and fix the aspect by extending the edges - changing dimension of the photo. After that Lightroom often is confused. It shows photo with incorrect aspect and when I click develop it shows old 2:3 version.

 

Is there a way to "update" the photo after it is changed in PS? The only solution I found is to manually remove it from Lightroom then sync my directory again (importing again), which is really time consuming.

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JohanElzenga
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 5, 2023

Try this. Make a tiny edit in Lightroom again (like adding 1 vibrance or something like that). That will force Lightroom to update the cache. You may have to zoom in to 100% too.

 

-- Johan W. Elzenga
Known Participant
February 5, 2023

Of course I tried to edit in LR, but it was using previous version, that's why I think it's quite a bug.

JohanElzenga
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 5, 2023

It can't use the previous version because there is no previous version. Photoshop changed the file. What must have happened is that Lightroom is showing the previous version, because it did not update the cache.

 

-- Johan W. Elzenga
dj_paige
Legend
February 5, 2023

Do you mean Lightroom Classic? What version NUMBER?