P: Most functions in Edit, Image, Layer, Select and Filter grayed out for image opened from LrC

[KR Seals]

Win 10 1803, LR  8.0, I7 8700k, 64GB ram Control keys inop. Most functions in Edit, Image, Layer, Select anf Filter grayed out. Images opened directly into PS all ok. Reset prefs no help.

[bowek]

Whenever I start PS out of LR with Command+E in order to continue editing all tools in PS are greyed out and are not selectable. The workaround I found out is to save image in .tif format and reopen it either in PS directly or with Command+E out of LR. This happens since last upgrade. Anyone an idea what is wrong?

[Samoreen]

and people testing LR are probably not going to have access to the latest beta versions of all the other Adobe products

That's exactly what I name a flaw in the testing procedures. Adobe is selling us a software ecosystem. It's up to them to make it consistent and to ensure code quality. I'm not paying for being a beta tester.

[TheDigitalDog]

Beta testers for Adobe don't get paid either FWIW. 

[bob frost]

Read the earlier posts for solutions.

[bob frost]

You would have to pay an awful lot more for software without bugs; many thousands of dollars instead of a measly hundred or so!! 😉

[Bob Somrak]

"A hundred or so"

I think your estimate is way low if you are talking about Lr.   Some of them are minor but there are quite a few severe bugs that have been in Lr for a LONG time that really need a fix.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

When exporting from Lightroom Classic CC to Photoshop CC with the right-click menu item "Edit In Adobe Photoshop CC 2019" the resulting files have almost totally grayed out menu items in Photoshop, making them impossible to edit or apply filters to the files, with no ability to bring the menu items back to life. Sometimes I can open Photoshop first, before clicking the Edit In selection and this process will work properly, but not always. It seems to want to fail once before I can finagle it into working properly. It is becoming a major pain in the butt, especially when editing many files in any particular project that require Photoshop. I have seen other posts on the Internet regarding this problem, but none here so I thought I would put it up.

[bob frost]

Read previous posts.

[peterb86513089]

I see that today there are updates for Lr CC and Br CC. Hopefully this will address the recent issues.


Peter

[peterb86513089]

And the first thing I noticed when I attempted update Lr CC was this ...




I think I will turn this off for now, until I feel more comfortable turning control of applying updates over to the automated process. It is turned on by default so I cleared the check mark.

[Samoreen]

Hopefully this will address the recent issues.

No. PS has not been updated.

[peterb86513089]

and there is an update for ACR too...

[Samoreen]

You would have to pay an awful lot more for software without bugs

Nobody is expecting bug free software and certainly not me as a former developer. What is expected from a company like Adobe is

1) proper regression testing before releasing a new version and development methodology allowing to eliminate the most obvious bugs before they hit the users. This is obviously not done.

2) proper handling of bugs when they are reported. There are bugs in LR and PS that are lasting since years (5 years, 7 years,..). This is not acceptable.

[peterb86513089]

Well! I need to do more testing, but at a first attempt the issue between Br CC and Ps CC, whereby sending from Br to Ps left the Ps menus grayed out, appears to be fixed. Yes, I did go into Photoshop Preferences and clear the "Disable the Home Screen" setting and then closed Ps before launching Br.

Also my problem with zoom "Fit on SCreen" not zooming to fill the available space also appears to be fixed.


Thank you Adobe,
Peter

[Samoreen]

I did exactly the same and menus were grayed out like before when opening a file from Lightroom.

[Samoreen]

I don't have the problem when calling PS from Bridge. Maybe the problem is at the ACR level. In that case, the bug may or may not appear depending on the ACR settings or depending on the way Lightroom communicates with PS which is different from Bridge.

[peterb86513089]

Ok, so maybe not perfectly fixed. If I launch  Br and select a raw image and "open", then Ps launches and in turn opens ACR. I choose open in ACR and the image opens in Photoshop, and all is fine. Menus are not grayed out.

Now I close Ps and Br. Then launch Br and select the same raw file and "open in Camera Raw", (which launches ACR independent of Ps) and then "open" the image from ACR, which then launches Ps and my menus are once more grayed out. Sigh.

Peter
BTW, I don't use Lr (even though I installed it in case some day I might)

[Samoreen]

I'm really wondering how this "Home Screen" can interfere with this mechanism. This is a user interface element that normally should have nothing to do with the way other applications communicate with PS. This gives a worrisome idea about how this UI is designed.

[Rikk Flohr: Photography]

Note: This issue requires an update to Photoshop CC. Updates to Lightroom, Bridge, etc. do not affect this issue. 

[peterb86513089]

Ok thanks. I will stay tuned for an update to Ps CC, hopefully in the not too distant future - actually this is mildly annoying but since there is an acceptable workaround (a couple of work arounds in fact) it's not killing me. I'm still using Br and Ps.

Peter

[johnt89751927]

Same problem. This greeted me after switching from macs (10 yrs+) to windows.

[johnt89751927]

Some workarounds. Open a raw file directly to PS from explorer. Then you can start opening from LR without issue.

Keep opening from LR. After 5 images or so it works eventually which is so odd.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

When working on a document in Photoshop CC 2019 (**that's been brought in straight from Lightroom**) on Windows 10, if you click ANY of the adjustment icons from the adjustment panel (curves, levels, vibrance, etc.) all that happens is a little "Document Properties" box pops up. You don't get the new adjustment layer in your layers panel or the ability to actually make the adjustments. However, by clicking the small "adjustment layer" icon at the bottom of the layers panel and selecting any adjustment from the pop-up list, it works as it normally does. The issue seems to just be in the adjustment panel with the individual icons for each adjustment. Again, this issue is only when the image is brought in straight from Lightroom. If I open PS manually and "open" the same image, everything works normally.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

[LiviuOlos]

I just installed the new CC on my PC/Win64/I8700/32Gb RAM from a few days and some essential functions don't work:
- Select area - Edit - Crop (but crop tool works)
- Paste -> Copy image in Chrome, than I go in Photoshop and Paste it's inactive 
- Select area -> Copy is unavailable in the menu