Lightroom 2.0 will not export to Photoshop CS3

Report · Jul 29, 2008

OK,

So I downloaded and installed lightroom 2.0 this morning and things are not working well.

System: Macpro 2.8, 8 gb ram, os x 10.5.4, nikon d300 raw files

The problem...

It started with Lightroom not exporting any images to photoshop. Doesn't matter if I try to send 1 or 20, I get a spinning beach ball, then nothing. if photoshop is closed it will open it, but nothing gets loaded into it. Plain export, merge to panoramic, edit as smart object, nothing does anything.

Tried in both 32 and 64 bit modes, tried re-installing Lightroom 2.0 from scratch. still nothing. I sent a sample raw file into adobe and am waiting to hear back, but figured I'd see what everyone else thinks as well.

Report · Sep 23, 2008

Richard:

Thanks for your help. Following your instructions I got the result I hoped for. I was surprised to see that when the file was imported into PSCS3 it came in with the .jpg extension, even though it was 16 bit and ProPhoto. I would have expected for the file to come into PS as a PSD since that is the file format I specified. But, it saved just fine and stacked back in LR 2.1.

I guess the reason for this is that now no file is created when sending to CS3. Before, I suppose, a PSD file was created first and sent to CS3. Now it is just a file image that only gets
b saved
as a PSD.

Anyway, all seems to be well now.

-wick

Report · Sep 23, 2008

Wick,

You are very welcome.

Rich

Report · Sep 23, 2008

Dorin,

I don't ZIP my tiffs because Qimage has had problems reading them.

You choose the compression in the dialogue box that pops up when you select "Edit in PS". In the file copy options you can choose "No compression" or "ZIP".

HTH

Rich

Report · Sep 23, 2008

I appreciate everybody's responses to my original question -- but, I still don't have the answer. In previous versions of Lightroom I could right click on a photo on the bottom, and check Edit in Photoshop, and then check edit a copy, it would automatically open up in CS3. Now, it opens the dialog box to chose a file in Photoshop. Is this the way it is supposed to be? In my mind, this is not useful.

Freddi

Report · Sep 23, 2008

> I don't ZIP my tiffs because Qimage has had problems reading them.

LZW should be compatible with everything, but it doesn't work either.

> You choose the compression in the dialogue box that pops up when you select "Edit in PS". In the file copy options you can choose "No compression" or "ZIP".

That't if you define PS as an external editor via a preset. If you use the normal "Edit in Photoshop CS3" behaviour, the file just open in CS3 without dialogs and with adjustments applied. More important, the derivative TIFF is not even created yet. Not until you save it in Photoshop. That's a great improvement from LR1.

> In previous versions of Lightroom I could right click on a photo on the bottom, and check Edit in Photoshop, and then check edit a copy, it would automatically open up in CS3.

Linda, in LR2 it works in a different, better way. See above.

> Now, it opens the dialog box to chose a file in Photoshop. Is this the way it is supposed to be?

No. Something might is wrong with your installation of Photoshop. try this http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b61fd6 .

Report · Sep 23, 2008

Freddi

It is not supposed to work like this... to say exactly what should happen...

Right click on an image in the "film strip" at the bottom, then "Edit In" then "Edit in Photoshop CS3". It opens the image
b directly
(without the in-between dialog box (which always came up in version 1) that gave you options including "Edit a copy").

Julian

Report · Sep 24, 2008

To get the additional options dialog you need to first set up CS3 as an additional external editor.

Report · Sep 26, 2008

I dont think it is much to ask that the software be properly tested before the release of Lightroom 2. If there were an alternative I'm sure many other jobbing photographers would be looking to change after this fiasco. I even considered wasting time to re-install Ver 1.4 and import all the libraries again but I feel that Adobe should fix this. After all they were quick enough to take the money.
If anybody at Adobe read this then the newest fix don't work on XP pro.

Report · Sep 27, 2008

Well, I have to agree with Jock.

Adobe: Where has your SQA gone?

Oh, I better spell that out since the LR team may not know about it. It's Software Quality Assurance.

As much as I would like to rush out and purchase CS4, I'm not going to buy it, and I'm not going to recommend my peers go out and buy it. If Adobe can't get it right by having LR 2 or 2.1 open a file in Photoshop CS3... Oh, wait! That's an Adobe product too. Ah, all the more reason they should be able to figure it out.

I'm really ticked off at Adobe at this point. I right click on a photo, and select "Edit in Photoshop CS3... " and Photoshop CS3 comes up and it just sits there and does NOTHING. Then, several seconds later I get a message, "The file could not be edited because Adobe Photoshop CS3 could not be launched."

What?

Photoshop CS3 WAS launched. (At this point I'm reminding me that I'm not opening the image in ACDSee 10 which would mean the folks at ACD Systems screwed up, but I'm trying to edit in an Adobe product.) Yet, Photoshop didn't open my file.

Am I supposed to get excited about CS4 integration with Photoshop and Flash and Illustrator and... oh, heck.. .it doesn't matter because I'm going to wait until others have spent all their hard-earned money and tested it and debugged it for the Adobe SQA team, and Adobe has come up with a CS4 service pack to fix the bugs that will most likely exist.

I'll quit my griping. But, in all seriousness. If Adobe is going to charge $299 for LR, then they better make sure it is bug free before selling it. People are not going to continue to pay high prices, and will go back to what they were using before LR.

Likewise, if CS4 hits the streets and has as many bugs as LR 2.1, we will be hearing about bailouts for Adobe too.

So, Adobe, get it together. Money's tight these days, and if we, your customers, are going to spend money on your products, you better fix what you have sold to us.

Report · Sep 29, 2008

I have Lightroom 1.4 & Adobe CS3 .... in the past week I have not been able to open images from Lightroom to CS3.....it gives me option of Photoshop.exe, but when I click on that absolutely nothing happens.
I have been happy with both Adobe products for a year but just this past week I want to throw out the Lightroom. Why won't the images open all of a sudden......?????

thanks
zormund

Report · Sep 30, 2008

I had exactly the same problem with the edits appearing in a new folder with the same name (and on the same volume) as the original picture when I was working with Lightroom 2.

However now, as I commented on the Page "Editing in Photoshop", I'm working with Lightroom 2.1 Photoshop is opened but the picture doesn't appear there and in Lightroom I get the message that the picture could not be edited because Photoshop could not be launched.

Help!!!

Report · Sep 30, 2008

I had posted this in a separate thread as it is a different issue to the one highlighted at the beginning of this thread. However after having read some of the 350+ posts in this thread, it appears that this has become a catchall for general 'Edit in Photoshop' issues.

So can anyone help me with the following...

When (in LR2.0 and LR2.1) I "Edit in Adobe Photoshop CS3" (by right clicking), the selected image correctly opens up in CS3. I can then edit the image but when I close it down and save it does not get re-imported into LR. Instead the edited image is simply saved in the same folder as the original, leaving me to manually synch/reimport into LR. I had been led to believe the image would be auto-reimported on closing/saving in PShop.

It sounds like some others have had this problem, but I couldn't find any suggested solution.

If my PC/config has any bearing, I'm running Vista-64, AMD Phenom, 8GB RAM, PShop CS3 Extended 10.0.1 with scripting support 10.0.1.

Report · Sep 30, 2008

Hi! Anita Dennis from Adobe pointed out this link to me: http://www.adobe.com/go/kb404907 which I found yesterday already and with which at least part of the problem has been solved,

Thanks and I hope others are helped with this also!

Report · Oct 01, 2008

Brent, it sounds like you're experiencing the problem where Photoshop didn't get completely updated to 10.0.1. What version does Photoshop say your scripting component is?

Rosamund & Justin - can you email me at kevint (at) adobe.com? I would like to walk through a few things with you to see what's happening on your machines.

Thanks,

-kevin

Report · Oct 01, 2008

Kevin, I have been experiencing the same thing as Justin (#361) and others.
Have LR2.1RC/PS 10.0.1/ Scripting Support 10.0.1 on a Vista 64 Box. Apologies in advance if I have missed something on all these threads, but isolated when this problem occurs for me.

I can open a RAW file into PS using the Edit in PS CS3 (CTL-E), but on save in PS, the PSD would not appear imported into the LR Catalog.
I think a key thing is that I have LR and PS on one drive (C:) and my LR catalog and Pictures folder on another(D:). Don't know if others with this issue have a similar setup.

I saw something on "ghost folders" and found that PS was importing empty "Photos" into the LR catalog, but listed on C: (in the library mod, even though the actual photo files were physically in D:) These null files were not stacked with the originals and were down at the beginning of the film strip.

When I created a new Catalog and put Photos physically on C: the issue went away and LR / PS interop appears to work as designed.

Since the new PSD file ends up in the right drive/folder with multiple drives, I assume LR is passing PS the correct information. Why would the LR catalog entry end up on C?

Report · Oct 02, 2008

"Now, it opens the dialog box to chose a file in Photoshop. Is this the way it is supposed to be? In my mind, this is not useful.

Freddi"

Hi Freddi
I had the same problem with some of my pictures until I found out that it only happened when I used the Swedish letters å, ä and ö in the folder name that the picture existed in. It seems LR having problems with some characters other than a-z.

Good luck!

Report · Oct 04, 2008

Regarding this post which I originally posted, I have solved my problem with the help of Adobe -- my Lightroom files which could not be properly edited in Photoshop, had a weird filenaming system, whereby the files were named Sam {Filename»}--101.jpg. I don't know how I got that name sequence into my recent files, but that was it. When I chamged the name to "Sam", it imported fine. Thanks Adobe.

Freddi Fredrickson
Freddi.fredrickson@ca.rr.com

Report · Oct 10, 2008

http://www.adobe.com/go/kb404907 this linked solved the problem......thank you Paul Gellings

If you are having a problem getting Lightroom to transfer photos to CS3 Photoshop go to this link.. http://www.adobe.com/go/kb404907

Would love to know how Paul Gellings got that link because I asked by phone and email and got nothing that would help.

Thanks Paul Gellings!!!!

Report · Oct 11, 2008

>Would love to know how Paul Gellings got that link because I asked by phone and email and got nothing that would help.

It's covered in the FAQ section of the forum - http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b61fd6

Report · Oct 26, 2008

If you are a Vista 64 bit user and are dealing with this issue then you will need to make sure that Lightroom 2.1 and CS3 are being run in Administrator mode. I had this issue in Lightroom 2.0 and thought the 2.1 would solve it, but it did not, even after following all the steps in http://www.adobe.com/go/kb404907

To set administrator mode for a specific program do the following:

For Lightroom: Drill to the \Program Files\Adobe Photoshop Lightroom folder on your C: drive. Right-click on Lightroom.exe and choose Properties. Click on the Compatibility tab. Check the "Run this program as an administrator" box in the Privilege Level section and save the change.

For CS3: do the same thing, except that the executable is Photoshop.exe and is located in the Program Files(x86)\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop Lightroom folder. CS3 is not a 64 bit app, that's why it is in a different folder.

Then the Ctrl-E function should work if you have followed all the steps in the kb404907 article.

If you are running 32-bit Vista (which I am not) the same steps would work (except that both executables are located in the Program Files folder.

For this part of the puzzle you can blame Microsoft as it's because of the annoying "User Access Control" feature, which essentially keeps you from running with elevated privileges even if you logged in account is in the Administartors group.

Richard

Report · Oct 18, 2009

I had the same problem with CS4 on my mac. I forced LR2 to open in 32bit mode and everything then worked perfectly. Might work with cs3? Good luck!