Edit in Photoshop greyed out in Lightroom Classic

[Mikkel Høje33339583j3a5]

I just updated both Lightroom Classic and Photoshop to the latest versions. After the update, the ‘edit in Photoshop’ option is greyed out.

It worked before the update, as I used the feature just before updating, and found out that I hadn’t updated Photoshop and henceforth couldn’t use Generative fill.

Updated both Lightroom Classic, Photoshop and Camera Raw, and now the ‘edit in Photoshop’ is greyed out.

Does anyone have a solution to this.

The files are all stored locally on my PC, and have not been moved during all this

When Lightroom finished updating, I noticed that I was going from Lightroom 12 to Lightroom 13, and there was a promt to transfer my catalog to the new version. I did this and then opened Lightroom, and now the edit in Photoshop command is greyed out and not working 

[GoldingD · Accepted solution]

Typically this issue is fixed by using the Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop App to uninstall PS, then to reinstall PS. If asked, keep the preferences.

In some hard cases you might need to also unistall LrC. But when you reinstall PS and LrC, you must install PS first.

[JohanElzenga]

You may have to uninstall Photoshop and Lightroom, and then reinstall Photoshop first and Lightroom second. This order is important.

[damirg5565193]

I have re-installed LRC and PS. Still same issue.

Tried to go back with the revisions and installed PS 25.0 and Lrc13.0 still same....

Any ideas what else can be done?

[damirg5565193]

I can´t believe what was the issue. I was looking at the thumbnails and there was no indication that the photo is missing. Only when I switched to Library view, I noticed that the complete folder can not be found.... After locating it all was good.... 

[john.vaughan]

Same issue for me. All my images are on a NAS drive and it was turned off... I could see the thumbnails in Lightroom Classic, but because it was only a thumbnail, it would not allow it to be opened in Photoshop.

[default551gkfkbzfbs]

tried everything here, having same problem. I'm about done with adobe, this is atrocious.

[alisonb2829203]

Having the same problem. This fix doesn't work for me either. 

[GoldingD]

Having the same problem. This fix doesn't work for me either. 

By @alisonb2829203

How about going ahead and posting your own discussion. This post is what, five going on six months old, and solved for the OP. Things have changed since, at what is your OS, your LrC version, etc.

When you do post your discussion, please include your system information as LrC reports it. In LrC click on Help, then System Info, copy that, paste it into a text editor, and trim it down to all information from first line down to and including plug-in info, all that techno gab after the plug-in info is a mystery to most of us and just eats up space in a post. Paste that into your posting.

[fbmartinez]

When is Adobe going to fix this problem? We can't be reinstalling Photoshop and LightRoom after EVERY OTHER Update... This is a serious waste of time, and collectively a ton of hours wasted across all users!

[LuiKay80]

Try this method, works like a charm (Solution 2): https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/kb/edit-photoshop-command-missing-photoshop.html

[fbmartinez]

I am unable to edit in Photoshop from LrC no matter what I try - this seems to happen after almost every update, and it's been easy to "fix" in the past, but this time I can't make this work for the life of me.

When is Adobe going to fix this problem? We can't be reinstalling Photoshop and LightRoom after EVERY OTHER Update... This is a serious waste of time, and collectively a ton of hours wasted across all users!

[grege13772108]

I just went thru this two days ago. Fresh updates from creative cloud for LR classic and PS disconnected the two applications due to corrupted permissions between the applications in my Mac OS Sonoma 14.3. After hours of troubleshooting the fix was a fresh re-install of Mac OS Sonoma 14.5 and all was returned to normal.  Give this a try and good luck. 

[Stephensondj]

I also had the Edit in Photoshop greyed out, even after uninstalling and re-installing photoshop and then lighroom. A fix that worked for me:  Somehow my file directory had gone offline. I right clicked the photo I wanted to edit, and selected Show in Finder. I was then prompted to relocate the file (even though the files had not moved from their previous location). After relocating the file, Edit in Photoshop was available to me again for all files.

[johannl70225486]

Ich hatte das gleiche Problem. Dieses Problem ist vorher mit Win10 nie aufgetaucht. Nach umstellung auf Win11 und Update von LrC und PS ist bei mir auch der Fehler aufgetaucht. Konnte bei LrC, über den Link "Über Photoshop 2024 bearbeiten" das Foto nicht in PS bearbeiten, da sich der Link nicht öffnete, jedoch wurde ich gefragt ob ich nicht "PS (Beta)" das ich installiert habe öffen will. Das Funktionierte auch. Nach Installation von PS über "Adobe Creative Cloud" tauchte das Problem nicht wieder auf. Das war vor ca. 14 Tagen, wobei ich jeden Tag einige Stunden mit LrC & PS arbeite.