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October 21, 2020

P: Lightroom Classic: Editing raw file in PS from LR loses profile

  • October 21, 2020
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[See here for how to reproduce the bug and an easy workaround:

https://feedback.photoshop.com/conversations/lightroom-classic/lightroom-classic-editing-cr3-files-in-ps-from-lr-lose-color-profile/5f9043b035f40c2520b9e964?commentId=5fb3495d014b4c3c8a0da305 -- John Ellis]

 

Editing a picture in Photoshop 2021 from within LR 10.0 makes the color profile disappear and the image loses all it's vibrancy... Any idea how to fix that? Top image is what I see in LR. Bottom is how it shows up in Photoshop... 

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    Rikk Flohr_Photography
    Community Manager
    Rikk Flohr_PhotographyCommunity Manager
    October 26, 2021

    Greetings,

     

    The Max 2021 Photography products updates have been released and include remedies for this topic.  The updates will be rolling out worldwide, October 26 and 27, 2021. If you do not see the updates in your Creative Cloud Desktop app, you can refresh the apps to see if the updates are available in your region.  The keyboard shortcut to refresh is [Cmd/Ctrl] + [Opt/Alt] + [ R ]. 

     

    Note: iOS and Android updates may take up to a week to appear in your App Store.

     

    Thank you for your patience.

    Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
    Earth Oliver
    Earth Oliver
    Legend
    October 21, 2021

    It's been a year now... how has this bug not been fixed yet?

    Could Adobe not have just patched it by auto-saving the xmp before Exporting? Are there not enough upvotes to get this fixed? Is that the problem?

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    default64r6kpgdc59y
    Participant
    October 20, 2021

    I have noticed recently that when I try to "edit in photoshop", the photo does not carry over with it the "amount" of creative profile". It will transfer as a zero value. 

     

    I am up to date on latest LR and PS on my latest updated OSX maxed out MacBook Pro 2020 19". 

     

    Please help!  This is frustrating as a professional photographer! 

    GoldingD
    GoldingD
    Legend
    October 20, 2021

    Bring up OS, select a RAW photo, in Camera RAW, see if that profile exists.

    It should if the profile in question was placed in the correct file location.

    Thinking Profile mismatch

     

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    JamesWatt
    Participating Frequently
    September 16, 2021

    When I right click on a raw photo and click Edit In > Adobe Photoshop. It opens a copy in Photoshop. For all of the years I've used LR, it has always brought over the LR adjustments into Photoshop. For the last few months, however, it is not.

     

    (Note: When right clicking on a raw file, LR never prompts me to ask if I want to edit a copy with LR adjustments; it just opens right up. I only get that prompt when editing a TIF or JPG etc.)

     

    With the reverted photo now loaded into Photoshop, I'll unknowingly do all of my editing to the picture only to realize after I'm finished that the lighting and adjustments are totally different wrong. I have to then do all of the work a second time.

     

    A work around that I've found (although I'm not sure if it works 100% of the time) is to press Ctrl + S on the image in LR to save the meta data before Editing in Photoshop.

     

    This has significantly slowed down my workflow because #1. Occasionally I miss it and have to redo Photoshop editing. #2. I am always questioning and second guessing if it got every adjustment... I'm wasting time maximizing and minimizing both LR and PS to see if they look the same before I go forward. This is just killing me with portrait work.

     

    This happens every single time I use LR on at least a few images. I first noticed the problem on June 15. I've been ignoring it for the last few months with the hope an update fixes it because reporting any type of bug here is entirely useless IMHO.

     

    The only thing that could make my set up different than a normal set up is that my library is on a mapped drive on a NAS. In this case, the W: drive. I have been using LR like this for years and only started having a problem in June.

     

     

    JohanElzenga
    Community Expert
    JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    September 16, 2021

    This is a known issue with certain profiles not getting sent to Photoshop. Adobe is aware of it and so you should expect a fix in an update, hopefully soon.

     

    Note: When right clicking on a raw file, LR never prompts me to ask if I want to edit a copy with LR adjustments; it just opens right up. I only get that prompt when editing a TIF or JPG etc.

    That is perfectly normal and has always been the case (at least for many years now). It has nothing to do with the issue at hand. The reason is simple: Photoshop can't directly edit a raw file, it always opens a copy that is rendered by Camera Raw. So the dialog would only have one logical choice (and in the very early years that was indeed the case).

     

    -- Johan W. Elzenga
    JohanElzenga
    Community Expert
    JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    June 19, 2021

    This is a known issue. I do not know when this will be fixed, but apparently an easy work around is to use ‘Save Metadata to File’ (Cmd-S) before you send the image to Photoshop.

    -- Johan W. Elzenga
    Kreativstudio Kaplun
    Community Expert
    Kreativstudio KaplunCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    June 19, 2021

    Hi!

    This came up about 1.5 months ago and even with the latest release of LrC the issue still persists.

    When you edit a photo in LrC (Mac and Windows) and you apply a custom camera profile via the profile browser, everything looks ok. But as soon as you hand the photo over from LrC to PS, the applied profile is lost.

    I get complaints about this bug every single day for the last 1.5 months.

    Does anyone know when this is supposed to be fixed?

    Thanks!

    Step 1: Apply profile

    Step 2: Hand over to Photoshop for further editing
    Step 3: This is what you get in Photoshop. The profile is lost.
    johnrellis
    johnrellis
    Legend
    June 14, 2021

    While waiting for Adobe to fix this, you can work around the bug by selecting the photo in LR and doing Metadata > Save Metadata To File before you edit in PS, or set Catalog Settings > Metadata > Save Changes > Automatically Write Changes Into XMP.

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    Yves-CH
    Inspiring
    June 14, 2021

    *zurifotoHello, pour moi parfois ça fonctionne, parfois pas, parfois ça fonctionne si modifié dans PS, mais ça ne fonctionne pas sir modifié en tant que calque d'objet dynamique ?  Remarque, je n'utilise pas les .xmp pour enregistrer les paramètres des RAWs, seulement la base de donnée LrC.
    macOS 11.4 et LrC 10.3

    Il y a donc quelque chose à ne pas faire dans la création des profiles sous CameraRaw ?

    Yves Crausaz, Suisse, retraité actif dans le monde de la photo et des arts graphiques.
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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    June 14, 2021

    I also have this problem. It appears that creative profiles with lookup tables are not applied correctly when using the Edit in Photoshop command. When applying a preset with such a profile in LR, settings such as exposure etc are applied when opening in Photoshop but the actual profile is not. I am using MacOS 11.4, LR Classic v.10.3, Camera Raw v.13.3, PS  v.22.4.2 (i.e. all up to date). However, this did not work before i upgraded to MacOS Big Sur and before I updated to the latest verions of LR and PS. This happens on all creative presets with lookup tables (e.g. RNI All Films 5) and is causing massive problems with workflow. Put simply, the image in PS looks nothing like the image in LR as the creative profile is not being applied when opening in PS.  

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