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halchedog
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June 21, 2017
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Lightroom 'Open as Layers in Photoshop' not working

  • June 21, 2017
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Hello~

Sometime around upgrading from the CC Photographer to a full Creative Cloud membership, I lost the ability to open images from Lightroom as layers in Photoshop. Searching through boards, I've tried reinstalling the software (both) multiple times, both with and without deleting preferences. Each time I'll try to open images as layers both with Photoshop already open, and not. I've tried opening Photoshop before opening Lightroom and it still doesn't work. I've tried deleting all other Creative Cloud applications (excluding current Camera RAW profiles and Bridge), and still nothing. The only thing I haven't done is a complete reinstall of CC, which I'd like to avoid.

If Photoshop is Closed when I choose 'edit in', Photoshop will open but no photos will load.

If Photoshop is Open already, nothing happens. No error messages, no switch in apps, etc.

If I choose 'Edit in Photoshop...', all the images load as individual files, but it's painstakingly slow to drag the individual layers into a stack (especially when dealing with a 20+ image stack).

Help!

MacBookPro w/ 2.5GHz i7

AppleOS 10.12.5

Lightroom 2015.10.1

Photoshop 2017.1.1

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    halchedogAuthor
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    June 22, 2017

    Update 2: After spending about 45 minutes on the phone with Adobe, it seems Photoshop doesn't like images that are on external hard drives (a new development since I'd worked on files externally for years). Moved the images to the desktop and they loaded.

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    JGPatterson
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    March 30, 2021

    I had the same problem... driving me nuts...  Once I read this, I put all the focus bracketed files on my desktop, imported into lightroom, and then loaded into Photoshop as layers and it worked.   

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    halchedogAuthor
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    June 22, 2017

    Update: I wiped Creative Cloud and did a fresh install - still having the same problem

    Just Shoot Me
    Just Shoot Me
    Legend
    June 21, 2017

    Working fine here on a Win 7 system with 16 GBs of RAM and using 4 images. I suspect your system is trying to process all those 20 images and that can take some time especially with lower amounts of RAM.

    How long have you waited? Do any rotating dots appear in the PS window?

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    halchedogAuthor
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    June 21, 2017

    I've tried it with just 2 images and still nothing. No rotating dots.

    Just Shoot Me
    Just Shoot Me
    Legend
    June 21, 2017

    Just to check. Have you opened both LR and PS and made sure they are really up to date to the versions you posted in your first post.

    There was a bug in an earlier version of LR that cause this type of thing to happen.

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