Is It Possible to Send a File Directly from Photoshop to Lightroom (CC, not Classic)?

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January 7, 2025
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Hi,

I'm looking for a way to send or save a completed file from Photoshop directly to my Lightroom online catalog wtihout the additional steps of first saving it to my computer and then seperately dragging it into Lightroom to upload it, and then deleting the copy off of my computer. It would be so much faster and more seemless to be able to complete the process this way, but I'm not sure if it is possible.

For clarification, this is the lightroom CC (or whatever it is called, not Lightroom Classic) (I REALLLY wish they'd just call them something totally different, instead of both being Lightroom, but alas), and the image did not begin its life in Lightroom, so I'm not sending it back there after editing it Photoshop, these are files that were created from scratch in Photoshop from a blank page, that eventually I want to end up in my Lightroom catalog and am just trying to streamline this workflow.

Many thanks to anyone who knows how to do this.

macOS

Conrad_C

Community Expert

Because your post says you’re using a Mac, you may be able to get this done using macOS drag and drop. (Windows users, these steps probably don’t work in Windows.)

These are the steps for the demo below:

1. Arrange the applications so that you can see both the Lightroom and Photoshop application windows.

2. In Photoshop, drag the document tab to un-dock it from the application frame so that the document becomes a floating window. The purpose of this is to reveal the macOS standard file icon in the window title bar. This icon can be dragged.

4. Drag the file icon from the title bar, and drop it in the Lightroom window. Lightroom opens its Import window, because that’s how it responds to a macOS file drop. Just confirm the import, and the document is now in Lightroom. As with all imported files, the original file will now be queued for upload to the Lightroom cloud.

Hopefully this lets you completely avoid the hassle of a full export / import / delete cycle.

If you want to open that again from Photoshop, click Lightroom Photos in the Photoshop Home screen to see your Lightroom cloud images.

cryanhornerAuthor

Known Participant

oh that is so clever. thank you for the reply, i'll definitley be trying this later today.

Sameer K

Community Manager

Hey, @cryanhorner. Thanks for posting this question. I'll clarify this for you.

If your workflow concerns storing files on the cloud and sharing them for review, Photoshop Cloud can help you achieve this.

Otherwise, for now, Photoshop does not save directly to Lightroom. You can save your images to Photoshop Cloud.

Thanks!

Sameer K

cryanhornerAuthor

Known Participant

yes, like when you are in lightroom, and you have the option when viewing an image to "edit in photoshop", so the program just sends the file directly to photoshop, instead of having to export it to my desktop and then open it in that program, i was hoping there was a way to do that in the opposite direction, where if i had a file open in photoshop, i could choose something like, "send to lightroom" or "export to lightroom" or something like that, but it sounds like that is not an available option.

thanks for the reply.

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