Opening more than 1 file from Lightroom CC to Photoshop?

[regorj55565977]

Hopefully this is an easy one, as I'm new to Lightroom CC. I can obviously choose to "edit in photoshop" if I select one file. But as soon as I select more than one, this option is not available? After having applied a preset to 500 photos (one at a time, because I can't seem to apply it to all) I have a simple "action" for each of them awaiting me in Photoshop. Sure would make things easier if I could open several at a time, but perhaps there are others ways of doing this?

Any help appreciated.

[JP Hess · Accepted solution]

I can confirm that Lightroom CC only allows a single image to be edited in Photoshop at any given time. I'm not connected with Adobe and not any kind of a software engineer. This might have something to do with transferring from the cloud to Photoshop, but I don't know that for certain.

[regorj55565977]

Right. Thanks for replying. I hope it doesn't have anything to do with transferring to cloud, since I don't even use that for back-up. As I'm already subscribing to something else.

So I can't go back to Lightroom Classic, as it won't work with my files now that I've bought a new camera. And CC wont open more than 1 photo into photoshop at the time? I've picked a bad time to try out time-lapse photography it seems.

[JP Hess]

Don't Understand your comment about hoping it doesn't have anything to do with transferring to the cloud. Are you really using Lightroom CC, the new cloud-based Lightroom CC, and not Lightroom Classic CC? If you are, then your images ARE being stored in the cloud. Did you not understand that? And Classic will open the same files that Lightroom CC will open. All you have to do is make sure you're up to date as far as updates are concerned.

[regorj55565977]

I understood that Lightroom asked me store everything in a cloud at-least. But that I would have to upgrade (beyond the 21gb or whatever it was) and pay more to have room for it all. So most of my images are not stored in the cloud, but locally (and backed up at dropbox since I already pay for that), because currently I don't have room for it in the cloud.

I did just figure something out here though. What I've been referring to as Classic here seems to be just "Adobe Lightroom". I just figured it was called Classic since it was the old original thing. And Adobe Lightroom no longer gets updates, and thus doesn't work very well with new files from new cameras.. So yeah! "Lightoom Classic CC" seems like the way to go.

[lara.aislinn]

Adobe did not give me the option to install Lightroom Classic CC, only Lightroom CC, which I was on before, and which it turns out has been uploading files to the cloud without my wanting it to (using 20GB of data which is not particularly cheap in South Africa) and taking away functionality which the previous version provided me with, such as sending multiple images for editing in Photoshop and numerous options for file saving.