"Edit in Photoshop" from Lightroom - most controls unavailable in PS

[revabbott7]

Hi everyone, I've encountered a new "handshake issue" when sending images from Lightroom (Edit in Photoshop) to Photoshop in the most recent builds of Lightroom Classic and Photoshop.  The vast majority of controls in Photoshop are grey out, from filters to masks to even merging layers.  If I open a RAW file directly in Photoshop, however, I don't encounter any of the issues.  This completely disrupts my workflow, though, from cataloging to metadata to Lightroom edits.  I'm presuming that this is a bug that needs squashing (I've never had a similar issue in many years of this workflow), but if I don't get it out there it might not get noticed.

[AxelMatt · Accepted solution]

This is a known bug. The workaround is to start Photoshop first and then Lightroom. In this case you can fully edit your picture in PS when you open it from Lightroom with "Edit in Photoshop".

[revabbott7]

Thanks a lot, Axel.  I gave that a try, and you are correct. 

[Mizzou95]

Now that we are approaching 2 months minimum that this is a known bug, any progress on actually fixing it, because it is a serious pain in the butt.

[walthornik]

Thank you so much, got this bug today to and I was starting to lose my mind as no other "fixes" were helping. This did the trick.

[GoldingD]

Well, today Adobe has updated PS, looks like it fixes the LR to PS issue

Fixed issues in Adobe Photoshop CC

[AxelMatt]

It has been fixed. Please update your Photoshop to version 20.0.2.

I've have tested and it work without any problems.