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defaultmgj42ytcpfmy
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January 3, 2024
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Edit in Photoshop opening with limited Photoshop functionality

  • January 3, 2024
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Hi,

 

I've not used Photoshop editing from Lightroom Classic in a while. It used to be the case that when I opened a photo using Edit in Photoshop in LR Classic it gave me the option to edit original or edit with Lightroom changes and I could take the changes over, edit in Photoshop, save, and it'd create a .tiff which Lightroom would then show in my catalog alongside the original.

 

Now when I click edit in Photoshop I instead get no option, and it shows the photo with LR edits, but the options available are limited; I can no longer do things like expand the canvas and do content aware fill; options like crop are just greyed out.

 

It's as though Photoshop is nowadays just getting the raw file with the Lightroom edits and can't do things like crop because it can't operate on raw files or something.

 

All my settings look right, Ligthroom is set to use tiffs and such:

Is there anything I can do to get the old functionality back where I just get to edit a tiff of the raw with the lightroom changes applied in Photoshop so I can have the full range of Photoshop options back like content aware fill?

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    Rob_Cullen
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    Rob_CullenCommunity Expert
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    January 3, 2024

    There is no "old functionality" to get back! Lightroom-Classic has always operated this way.

    Proprietary raw files will never give you the options "to edit original or edit with Lightroom changes".

    This dialog with the options will only ever appear if you are sending rendered files to Ps (eg. PSD, TIF, JPG)

    A Proprietary raw file will always have your LrC edits applied before it opens as a document in Ps.

    And this should have no bearing whatsoever on the Ps functions like Content Aware Fill.

     

     

    Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.1.1, Photoshop 27.3.1, ACR 18.1.1, Lightroom 9.0, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.2 .
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      defaultmgj42ytcpfmyAuthor
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      January 3, 2024

      Okay but that's literally how I used it for years. When I selected edit in Photoshop it always at some point automatically and transparently converted to a tiff (or whatever you set that option to) and let you edit that, saving it back to your Lightroom library when you close Photoshop as a separate tiff file with your Photoshop edits. I never manually had to force the conversion at any point.

       

      If that's not the reason crop to extend the image and content aware fill isn't working do you have any other idea why Photoshop would prevent me using these options on ORFs (Olympus Raw Files) when I used to be able to do it seamlessly just fine?

      D Fosse
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      D FosseCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      January 3, 2024

      If you have limited Photoshop functionality it's probably because your GPU has been disabled because it doesn't meet requirements.

       

      Once the file opens in Photoshop, all normal Photoshop functionality is available.

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