Photoshop Sky Replacement Issues, and Generative Fill

Issue 1

If Generative Fill is used in PS, The Spot Healing Brush Tool is disabled. However, if the Spot Healing Brush Tool is used before using Generative Fill it works, as does Generative Fill.

If the Spot Healing brush tool is desired after using Generative Fill, the image must be saved in PS, and after the image returns to LrC, the image can be returned from LrC to Ps and the Spot healing Brush Tool will be enabled. Surely this can be fixed?

Issue 2

If HDR is enabled in LrC, some functions do not respond in PS until HDR is disabled.

Issue 3

Sky Replacement

As a travel photographer, I have amassed several skies that have been imported into PS Sky Replacement. There are a number of related issues…….

If a sky has been adapted to an image with editing, it no longer has the same appearance as the original thumbnail image. 

If then, perhaps after using other skies on other images, I want to create the same sky as in the first image, I have to locate the original sky image, and that is a frustrating, almost impossible task due to the editing.

1. It is suggested that the file number of the sky image be embedded in the image history of the photo that received the new sky.

2. Armed with the sky image file number the only way to currently locate the image again is to  double click on every thumbnail image (let’s say those with clouds), to reveal the file number, and identify that image.  With many skies in my Sky Replacement, this is tedious and unproductive. Therefore adding a search function to the file of sky images would allow the file number/image to be located quickly.

Thanks, 

Adrian

MacBook Pro M1

PS 25.1