PS Edited Image Auto Selects In Lightroom

There's a workaround you could try.

Clearly the ideal would be to have the PS save come back into the Catalog so promptly that you do not get impatient! And that may have to do with hardware performance or possibly the PS saving option is one that takes a longer than necessary time.

The normal sequence is:

• LrC does Edit in PS; ACR opens silently and renders adjustments into a new unsaved image, which is passed in memory to PS; saving that image from PS creates a new file on disk; LrC imports that file as a new entry in the Catalog.

Workaround. If you make an additional external editor setup, and select that by name (this also happens when LrC has a newer ACR compatibility than PS does):

• LrC does Edit in / your named setup; LrC renders the adjustments and immediately creates a file on disk; LrC imports this as a new entry in the Catalog; LrC also (independently of that) tells PS to directly open this file - with no ACR involvement. Any further save from PS will be merely an update to what is already present on disk, and to what is already seen in the Catalog.

I make use of this anyway when I want a different bit-depth / colourspace than usual, for my external editing out of LrC. Each external editing setup includes those settings plus file type - and can invoke any version of PS you have installed, or some other editing application or utility for special pujrposes, by selecting its program executable directly.

Check your settings: LIbrary Module -  Photos >Auto-advance. Do you have this turned on?

Why is the save in PS taking so long that you need to go and work on some other image while the save works in the background? Apparently you have an instance of a watched pot never boils??? Just how long are these saves taking?

And yes I can repeat this, same on my expensive rig.