Photoship edits lost when returning to Lightroom

[Dave Kimball]

This last update changed something.

My work flow is:

Open lightroom, select image, then while in lightroom use the alt E to invoke photoshop. edit the image, then close photoshop and be returned to lightroom where the image edited was added say 2 of 2 to lightroom.  The image was saved with the photoshop changes.

But Now - wsing the same workflow BOTH images in lightroom are the same as the orginal.

My Photoshop edting is LOST!

Any pointers please.

THANKS in advance.

Dave

[JohanElzenga]

Have you double checked this using a very obvious edit (like turning the Photoshop image to B&W)? As Photoshop is a pixel editor that really changes the pixels of the image, this is pretty much impossible. It would mean that Photoshop does not save the image.

[dj_paige]

"... then close photoshop and be returned to lightroom where the image edited was added say 2 of 2 to lightroom."

You are not doing a save. Close does not save the edits.

[Dave Kimball]

Photoshop asked if you want to save the image if it was changed and I am saving the image.

[GoldingD]

Please post a screenshot of your /preferences/external editing/ With emphasis on the Photoshop section.

[Dave Kimball]

OK,  What is the correct work flow

using lightroom, then use photoshop to edit the picture tthen return to light room with the edited image????

Thanks

Dave

[Dave Kimball]

OK, here are the screen shots.  I selected a picture, used photoshop to change to picture to BW with a filter

closed photoshop while saving the image.

back in lightroom the edited converted to black and white lost.

[JohanElzenga · Accepted solution]

The problem is that you specified JPEG as file format in your External Editor preferences. And then you create a layered file in Photoshop. JPEG does not support layers, so Photoshop will have to save this as a copy. Lightroom does not expect that, so this path gets broken. And to make matters worse, there is a bug in Photoshop that makes it impossible to overwrite an existing JPEG with such a copy. Photoshop tells you it will overwrite the file, and then it creates a copy next to it nevertheless. Bottom line: do not use JPEG as file format for edits in Photoshop if you want to use layers.

[Dave Kimball]

THANKS FOR THE HELP.....