Lightroom 2.0 will not export to Photoshop CS3

Hei!

When I try to edit file from LR2 in PS CS3, I get dialog box "open as"... So it's dead end here...

Pekka Nurmela

ps. file info:

Lightroom version: 2.0 [481478]
Operating system: Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (Build 6001)
Version: 6.0 [6001]
Application architecture: x64
System architecture: x64
Physical processor count: 4
Processor speed: 2.4 GHz
Built-in memory: 8190.1 MB
Real memory available to Lightroom: 8190.1 MB
Real memory used by Lightroom: 146.3 MB (1.7%)
Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 124.1 MB
Memory cache size: 76.7 MB
Application folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2
Library Path: F:\Lightroom\Lightroom Catalog-2.lrcat

I was just working with a few people here to figure out what's going wrong. Specifically, I've been looking at the problem where on Windows, sometimes Lightroom either won't launch Photoshop, or will launch it but then display a "Photoshop could not be launched" message.

It appears that for some people, the Photoshop 10.0.1 update does not get correctly applied. Some of the components are updated, while others are not.

There are a few ways to attempt to fix this. First try reinstalling the update, which can be downloaded from here:

http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=39&platform=Windows

Reboot your machine immediately BEFORE installing the update, to ensure that none of the files which need updating are still open.

If that doesn't work, then reinstalling Photoshop (then running the update again) may help. Having Photoshop installed on a drive other than C: may be a factor here, but I'm not sure yet.

Please post with any results!

Thanks,

-kevin

10.0.1 installed here.

It was working on 1 of my catalogs and now it has stopped. weird behavior...

Everyone knows you need Photoshop CS3 for the Lightroom 2 integration to work properly but to be more specific, there was a related bug fix applied in the Photoshop CS3 10.0.1 update so please make sure that you have that update applied to Photoshop.

Regards,
Tom

Interesting problem trying to edit in CS3... especially given the latest post in the Lightroom Journal (Blog) about how we should be using the Smart Objects in Photoshop method instead of "plugins". Unbelievable.

I've experimented some more, and I cannot make the behavior be consistent with edits, but it is consistent with me for folders and it SOMETIMES works on top level folders.

First, it seems to work fine with TIF's, not raw files (specifically for me NEF's).

If I start with an empty lightroom catalog, import a TIF from a directory, and right click/edit in CS3 I AM prompted for the "edit copy" with option to stack.

If I start with an empty catalog and import an NEF from a directory, right click, I am NOT prompted. In that case if I edit and save as I come back to Lightroom I see the same drive letter and folder duplicated on the left, one with the original NEF and one with the Edit.

Not sure if related or on purpose, but I also tried this. Create this structure:

c:\scratch\junk\picture.nef

Now create two separate LR Catalogs, and each time do an import of the entire directory, but

1) Import C:\SCRATCH all

separately in a different new catalog

2) Import C:\Scratch\Junk all

I would expect these to produce the same result, frankly, but they do not. The former produces a structure on the left of:

C:
Scratch
Junk

The latter import produces only the bottom directory:

C:
Junk

The reason I mention this in the same thread is that one of the things I observe with the import to CS3 is that if you have done the former (building the c:\scratch\junk levels in the library view), and edit, when it comes back for me and produces the extra drive on the left, it looks like this:

C:
Scratch
Junk <<< original shot

C:
Junk <<< CS3 edit shows up here

They are, in terms of actual windows directories, exactly the same of course, but the library folder display shows separate drive letters.

You can also produce the above by a drag-and-drop type import (drag from explorer into LR in a subfolder not a top level folder).

I am coming to the conclusion, however, that this folder display anomoly is not related to the edit-in-CS3 problem, but a separate bug that manifests in edit because it is returning a file in a similar fashion to a drag and drop.

Confirm same behavior with XP-64. Worked OK before upgrade to ACR 4.5 now the only way to get pictures back into Lr is to do manual synchronize. No problem with folder structure here. The edited picture returns to correct folder, but edit does not return to Lr.

Hey... I just tried something and it seemed to work (but it is not good).

What is NOT working is a directory structure like this:

t:\Photos\folder1
t:\photos\folder2
etc.

But when I created a folder:

t:\folder1

and edited, it came back and stacked as expected. That's consistent with the weird creation of a separate volume. For example if I edit

t:\photos\folder1\image1.nef

when I exit photoshop, it puts the TIF in that folder, but in Lightroom it shows:

t:\folder1\

on the left, with the one single TIF in it. That is NOT where the image is, it is in the original folder (e.g. in explorer). If I REMOVE it and synchronize the original folder it appears.

I think there's something wrong with directory depth and how it records the returned photo from CS3.

Same same -- editing and saving results in the drive letter appearing twice on the left, with the document not stacked.

(for whatever it is worth to have one more data point).

I have been unable to get any of the workarounds listed above to function, other than using it as a second editor, which is MUCh slower.

This is the link to report a bug:

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform

If the link does not work I believe I went to Adobe.com / then Support / then Contact Us (way down at the bottom of the page) / Feedback (near, but not at the top of the page) / and once you are in Feedback look for Report a Bug about half way down.