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October 5, 2024
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P: Release 14.2 cannot open Lightroom edited photos in Photoshop 26.5 or Photoshop Beta 26.6.

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Release 14.2 cannot open Lightroom edited photos in Photoshop 26.5 or Photoshop Beta 26.6. Opens Smart Objects without a problem.

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Sameer K
Community Manager
Community Manager
August 15, 2025

August Update! If you see this issue with the August release of Lightroom Classic v14.5, check the pinned comment in this thread: P: LrC 14.5 Edit in Photoshop does not work when opening RAW photos

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Sameer K

Participant
April 26, 2025

I updated Lightroom but now Edit in selections are grayed out. Why ?

 

Participant
April 19, 2025

The export to.... Has greyed out. Unless I select all dng , then I can export and the error in Lightroom Classic reports an error with Photoshop. Deinstall including preferencess is a bad solution though

AxelMatt
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 20, 2025

Which versions of Adobe applications do you have installed?

Do you have install Photoshop Beta? If yes which version?

 

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... Deinstall including preferencess is a bad solution though


By @ruudd96267690

 

Normally the deletion of the preferences isn't necessary.

 

If you have Photoshop Beta installed and you need the Beta the update to Beta 26.6 can be helpful.

In my case I deinstalled the Beta and reinstall Photoshop 26.5 without deleting the preferences and the editing in Photoshop is working again..

 

 

My System: Intel i7-8700K - 64GB RAM - NVidia Geforce RTX 3060 - Windows 11 Pro 25H2 -- LR-Classic 15 - Photoshop 27 - Nik Collection 8 - PureRAW 6 - Topaz Photo AI
ümit kivanç
Participating Frequently
April 12, 2025

Hi everyone,

After trying this or that after reading some posts here I have uninstalled PS26.5 and installed 26.4.1 and everything was fine. And now I have LR Classic 14.2, PS 26.5.0 & Camera Raw 14.2 working alltogether. This is the adventure:

I have forgotten the problem and have said "update all" to the alert of Creative Cloud app about new updates and got PS 26.5 again on the machine. And saw  that everything goes on working!? Even "open as layers in PS".

But if you choose "Edit in PS" or "Edit as layers..." on LRC, PS doesn't comes to front automatically and you have to bring it to front.

Maybe it is the uninstalling & launching the older version and updating after that or maybe it is the new version of PS Beta which did good for us. Maybe these all does good for someone else. (This is a MacPro Late 2019 with MacOs Sonoma 14.6.1. here.)

Good luck

umit

hayphotoman
Known Participant
April 12, 2025

After I updated to the latest version of PS Beta (26.6.0) my issue has been resolved.

Participant
April 10, 2025

I have been experiencing this for a month or longer now.

I have uninstalled both LR and Photoshop.

Reinstalled latest versions of each.

Uninstalled PS then rolled back to previous version of PS
Cleared preferences in LR

uninstalled the whole CC suit and reinstalled the whole suite.

updated LRCand PS to latest version.

Uninstalled Photoshop., Installed the Beta version.

Uninstalled Beta.

 

I'm going to completely remove the whole CC suit again....

 

 

Can Adobe maybe, just maybe release versions of software that have ZERO new functions and only bug fixes, and then highlight those versions? I am so sick of dealing with an endless string of issues. I swear I spend more time troubleshooting than I do using the software....

 

System specs:
This is a practically fresh install of everything on a Dec 2024 M4 mini, Creative Cloud, google drive, and software for printer and monitor are the only things I have installed on this machine. 

 

metropolics
Participating Frequently
April 10, 2025
Hello, I just installed Photoshop 26.5. After this installation, LR would
not transfer raw files to Photoshop for editing. I rolled back to my last
version of Photoshop 2025 26.41 and now the LR transfer to Photoshop works
again.I turned Adobe Auto Update off until this is resolved.
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AxelMatt
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April 10, 2025
quote
Hello, I just installed Photoshop 26.5. After this installation, LR wouldnot transfer raw files to Photoshop for editing. I rolled back to my lastversion of Photoshop 2025 26.41 and now the LR transfer to Photoshop worksagain.
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By @metropolics

 

There's no need to role back to the former version. If you have installed the Beta of Photoshop deinstall this and then reinstall PS26.5 using the Creatrive Cloud Client by keeping the preferences.

 

My System: Intel i7-8700K - 64GB RAM - NVidia Geforce RTX 3060 - Windows 11 Pro 25H2 -- LR-Classic 15 - Photoshop 27 - Nik Collection 8 - PureRAW 6 - Topaz Photo AI
Participant
April 8, 2025

Same issue.

Participant
April 9, 2025

@dig12Thank you for posting. Reinstalling Photoshop should fix the issue. However, before you proceed with the reinstallation, we need to collect some additional information to understand the problem, as we haven't been able to reproduce it in-house. Please let us know if it's okay to direct message you for more details. Thanks!

trumpetdave
Participant
April 8, 2025

My workflow involves editing single or multiple Lightroom images in Photoshop and then reimporting them.  This used to work smoothly.  But now when I select "edit in Photoshop" Photoshop opens but the files won't transfer.   My only workaround is to export individual images by clicking "open as smart object in Photoshop.'" That only works for single images, and the edited file, doesn't automatically re-import to Lightroom.  This started a few weeks ago, and happens on all my workstations.  Any ideas?

Ian Lyons
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 8, 2025
Participant
April 6, 2025

J'ai le même problème. 

 

Je débute le post-traitement d'un fichier RAW (CR3) dans LrC et lorsque je veux poursuivre dans Photoshop (right click + edit in Photoshop), l'application ouvre mais celle-ci demeure à la page d'acceuil de Ps. Je remarque qu'aucun fichier TIFF n'a été créé par LrC et je crois que c'est la raison pour laquelle ça ne fonctionne pas. 

Ça fonctionnait normalement il y a 3-4 semaines, soit la dernière fois que j'ai utilisé ces deux applications.

 

J'ai vérifié et toutes mes applications sont à jour.

Ian Lyons
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 6, 2025

@Josee36728187x8ho 

 

Please. see posts marked 'Correct Answer' and the Pinned post at top of thread.

Participating Frequently
April 6, 2025

Same problem occured in the middle of processing a number of photos. One moment it worked, the next it did not transfer file from LRC to PS. Following advice inn this forum I uninstalled PS vers 26.5..0 and PhotoshopBeta and reinstalled only PS. It is now working. I hope it continues. Is this is not a bug which Adobe should ackowledge and fix?

 

Participating Frequently
April 7, 2025

When re-installing PS choose to Keep prefrerences but do not choose this for PSBeta uninstall

 

DdeGannes
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 6, 2025

I have no problems with PS 26.5 on my Window's system, however I have no access to PS 26,6 (beta) so I am not able to comment.

Regards, Denis: iMac 27” mid-2015, macOS 11.7.10 Big Sur; 2TB SSD, 24 GB Ram, GPU 2 GB; LrC 12.5,; Lr 6.5, PS 24.7,; ACR 15.5,; (also Laptop Win 11, ver 24H2, LrC 15.0.1, PS 27.0; ) Camera Oly OM-D E-M1.