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madeleinel39583149
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July 14, 2023
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PS Beta interferes with regular PS in Lightroom

  • July 14, 2023
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I installed Photoshop Beta (on my Windows computer) and then went to Lightroom and tried to install it as alternative external Editor. A message popped up saying You already have Photoshop 2023 as external editor. Thinking I knew what I was doing, I said, Use anyway. 

That looked ok, when I opened a file using the alternative, I got Beta. However, when I tried to open a file in regular PS, I got Beta as well!

So I uninstalled Beta. Now Photoshop works as it always did, but I can't edit a file from Lightroom in PS at all!

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    AxelMatt
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    AxelMattCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    July 14, 2023

    When the 'link' between Lightroom Classic and Photoshop has issues, the first step is to try this: 

    Use the Adobe Creative Cloud Application to uninstall Photoshop. When asked, keep preferences! After this reinstall Photoshop again. 

     

    If this doesn't help the nest step is to reinstall both apps Lightroom and Photoshop. Please folloe the steps below: 

     

    1. Open the Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop Client and uninstall both Photoshop and Lightroom Classic. When asked, keep preferences!  
    2. Install Photoshop first and then Lightroom Classic. The right order is very important here! 

     

    My System: Intel i7-8700K - 64GB RAM - NVidia Geforce RTX 3060 - Windows 11 Pro 25H2 -- LR-Classic 15 - Photoshop 27 - Nik Collection 8 - PureRAW 6 - Topaz Photo AI
      madeleinel39583149
      madeleinel39583149Author
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      July 14, 2023

      Thank you so much, and that works perfectly. And now the next question dooms up: How can I add Photoshop Beta as an alternative editor?

      AxelMatt
      Community Expert
      AxelMattCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      July 14, 2023

      More infos you'll find here: Edit Lightroom Classic photos in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements (adobe.com)

       

      The problem is, if you install Photoshop Beta the settings for the "Edit in Photoshop..." will be overwrite again. So you have the same issue as your wrote in first posting.

      In the newer version of Lightroom you can choose in the preferences dialog (tab "External Editings") which Photoshop version you will used for "Edit in Photoshop...".

      But this doesn't work on Windows machines.

      The simplest workaround is to start the appropriate Photoshop version you like to use and but it into the background. The you start Lightroom. When you use the "Edit in..." the PS version will be used that runs in background.

       

      My System: Intel i7-8700K - 64GB RAM - NVidia Geforce RTX 3060 - Windows 11 Pro 25H2 -- LR-Classic 15 - Photoshop 27 - Nik Collection 8 - PureRAW 6 - Topaz Photo AI
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