Open Photoshop then Lightroom for Content Aware Fill

[heirloombob]

Can anyone explain why one must open Photoshop and then Lightroom, in order to send a photo from Lightroom to Photoshop and enable content aware fill? Seems to me the fix should be pretty straightforward so why this painful workaround?

Bob

[JohanElzenga]

Because there is a bug in Photoshop that has not yet been fixed. You can also disable the home screen in the Photoshop preferences. That should also solve it.

[heirloombob]

I don't understand?

[JohanElzenga]

What is there not to understand? There is a bug in Photoshop (Windows only) where if you send an image from Lightroom to Photoshop before Photoshop is already running (so you start Photoshop this way) lots of things do not work.

[heirloombob]

"You can also disable the home screen in the Photoshop preferences." I don't understand how to disable the home screen?

[Per Berntsen]

You do this in Preferences > General.

Preferences are found in the Edit menu on Windows, and (I believe) in the Photoshop menu on a Mac.

[john beardsworth]

Or in PS just close the file, then send it again from LR. This means you don't lose the Home screen.

Or as you've found, open PS first. I'm sure it'll be fixed soon.

[GoldingD]

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

Fixed issues in Adobe Photoshop CC