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matt_0733
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July 27, 2025
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Lightroom Classic to Photoshop not working

  • July 27, 2025
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Hi All, 

 

I'm having what seems to be a very common issue with LRC and PS talking to each other. I want to open two images as layers in PS from LRC then save back to LRC from PS. 

 

Stats:

PS version - 26.8.1

LRC version - 14.4

Laptop Info - MacBook Pro, 2019 - OS-Sequoia 15.5

 

Photos are stored on an external drive

 

Steps taken to resolve:

- Updated to newest version of PS and LRC - Restarted laptop

- Uninstalled both PS and LRC - Reinstalled PS first then LRC

- Reset Preferences in PS

- Checked external editing preset is set to PS in LRC

- Disconnected and reset External Hard drive

- Have tried older versions of LRC and PS together 

 

I have had some success with dragging photos over into PS or using the toolbar instead of right clicking on the selected images as I normally do but this doesn't work everytime. When it does I then can't save from PS back to LRC as I get an error message saying there is a disc problem when saving. 

 

I'm kind of at a loss now, is there anything I can do to solve this? Its beyond infuriating that this product is seemingly so broken whilst we're paying for it. 

 

Thanks in advance

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    matt_0733Author
    Participant
    July 27, 2025

    Ok so the thing I'm having to do to get around this currently is drag the two photos I need to create layers of into PS, cancel the preview, then go back to LRC and 'open as layers in PS' 

    Sameer K
    Community Manager
    Sameer KCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    July 28, 2025

    Hey, @matt_0733. Welcome to the Photoshop Community. I'll help you figure this out. 

     

    Does this happen with all images, or images with specific edits? Try using a set of images that are not edited, and check how it goes. There is an ongoing issue with images with SuperRes that don't work in the Edit-in-PS workflow: https://adobe.ly/40qZcJy

     

    Try these steps to set up or recreate the link between Lightroom Classic & Photoshop 2025.

    • Reset Lightroom Classic following the second (manual) method from this article: https://adobe.ly/4fOPxm4
    • Uninstall Photoshop & Lightroom Classic and then install once again.
    • Before launching both of the apps, ensure Lightroom Classic & Photoshop have the required permissions on the macOS: https://adobe.ly/4amzwQg
    • Try launching Photoshop first, then Lightroom Classic & check if it behaves as expected.

    Let me know how it goes.

    Thanks!
    Sameer K

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    matt_0733Author
    Participant
    July 27, 2025

    Could this be a LRC catalogue setting issue?

     

    Just to give some more info, before I was working on PS 2020 which was working fine but I got the error message saying that PS couldn't connect to Creative Cloud Desktop, I then must have updated to the newer version which is when things broke. 

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