Lightroom Classic will not send a photo to Photoshop to edit there

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February 7, 2022
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When I am in Lightroom Classic and go to the Photo tab and select Edit In, the entire selection area is greyed out. It will not send a photo to Photoshop to edit there and be able to send back to Lightroom Classic. I am using Windows 10 and my software is up to date the guide says. I have restarted my computer and tried opening Photoshop first then Lightroom Classic. Thank you.

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cmgap

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Is it just one image or all of your images? If it is just one image check to make sure you see both Original and Smart Preview under the Histogram or if you see an exclamation point with '! photo is missing'. If your image is offline you will not be able to edit in any other application.

littlered1188Author

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It is all of my images in a folder. But I reuploaded my photos from their new file location and I was able to send them over to photoshop/the options were not greyed out. How do I get the Original part viewable if I only see Smart Preview? I didn't see an exclamaton point on any of the photos. My next question after the Original one is how do I get my collection updated with the new photos from their new location, because they are still greyed out and not sendable? Is it possible? Thank you.

cmgap

Community Expert

Where are you storing your images? Did you recently move them from an internal drive to an external drive? When you move images (or folders) from within Lightroom rather than at the finder level Lr will keep track of what you are doing. If you move images outside of Lr using the finder you will have to update the location by right-clicking on the folder and selecting Update Folder Location. If you are not seeing exclamation points it is most likely because you are working with Smart Previews. If you are always creating smart previews (on import for example) your Smart Preview file will quickly take up a lot of space on your internal drive. There are multiple ways to make smart previews - making them on demand when you need them will help to keep that file size manageable.

Per Berntsen

Community Expert

To send an image to Photoshop, Lightroom needs access to the original.

So Edit in Photoshop will be greyed out if

The image is missing (exclamation point in top right corner of thumbnail)
This may happen if the original is on an external drive that is not connected, or if you have moved the image outside of Lightroom, so it no longer knows where it is.
You are working with smart previews

littlered1188Author

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Thank you. I uploaded the photos from their new file location and those were able to be sent. However, I didn't see an exclamation mark anywhere.

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