Lightroom 2.0 will not export to Photoshop CS3

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Hi JB - do you have a handy link to report this problem.....seems real enough as a whole bunch of people are talking about the issue on both platforms.

jc

I was advised by an Adobe tech. to report the bug. The more reports come in the faster they will get it fixed.

The same thing here however it worked fine before I updated CS3's Camera RAW to v4.5

When I did an edit in CS3 before the CR update, Lightroom told me to update CR or use the LR rendering. This worked ok. I then updated CR in CS3 and this is when the problem started so it seems related to CR4.5

"What's interesting is CS3 opens ok - once file does not appear I close CS3 and 30secs? later the message

"file could not be edited because CS3 could not be launched""

Same thing was happening to me using Windows XP. Temporary fix to work around this issue: In the Preferences/External Editing dialog box, go down to Additional External Editor (I had Elements 4.0 there), and override that setting by choosing Custom and by pointing to Photoshop.exe. It will tell you that you are already using CS3 as your primary editor but do it any way. Then, when you attempt to open a file in CS3 from Lightroom 2, choose Edit in Photoshop.exe instead of Edit in Adobe Photoshop CS3. It worked (in 8 bit - haven't tried it in 16 bit).

I am seeing the same thing. When I export from LR2 and edit and save in PS, the PSD fle does not appear back in LightRoom. I have to synchronize the folder after each edit, which is a real pain.

Ok, so it works in one catalog, and not in others.

The one it works in, I upgraded this morning from a Lightroom 1.4.1 catalog, and everything is fine.

The one it doesn't work in was a new catalog, created specifically in Lightroom 2.0...

Update:

So this morning i tried the send files to photoshop as a panoramic just out fo morbid curiosity... and guess what... IT WORKED!!! spun the beachball for a few minutes (it was 42 files...), then popped up the panoramic box in Photoshop with all the files!!

I'm still building this pano in Photoshop, so not sure if it was a one time fluke or not...

exciting still, it worked as advertised!

I get the same too. From Lightroom 2 (Windows XP), I've got "Preferences", "External Editing", "Edit in CS3" File Format set to TIFF. When I try to edit a Nikon (NEF) raw file in Lightroom by right-click, "Edit in", "Edit in...CS3" (not as smart object) then it opens CS3. No new file appears have been created. When I close the photo in CS3, it prompts me "Save before Closing" and if I click yes, it creates a TIF in the original folder, but this is not imported into Lightroom, neither stacked nor on its own.

I am getting the same error as Robert Munoz & scottda. I tried Betty's workaround and it did not work. I then tried the other suggestion of making the second application CS3 as well. This seems to have LR working where I can now open a NEF, edit in CS3, save it and the file shows up in the original folder on my drive without creating a "shadow" drive and folder as described by scottda. If I try it with the LR defined CS3 (control E), it still creates the shadow drive.

Hopfully, this is a temp workaround until Adobe fixes the issue. I'm running Vista 32, LR2, CS3, CameraRaw 4.5