Cannot edit in Photoshop from Lightroom. Please help

[hakeema47114738]

I just reinstalled Photoshop and Lightroom and this new issue came up. When I am in LR Classic and then click "Edit in" > "Edit in Adobe Photoshop 2019 CC", the file opens in PS, but I am unable to make any edits in PS. The Background layer is locked, and almost all the options under the "Edit / Layer / Type etc." tabs are grayed out. If I right-click on the Background layer, all the options like "Duplicate Layer" are also grayed out. I can double-click on the lock icon on the Background layer and it converts it to Layer 0 but I am still unable to edit anything as all the options are still grayed out.

[Bojan Živković · Accepted solution]

Ensure that you have latest versions of both software installed and try to open Photoshop first then edit image from Lightroom. I just tested on Win 10 and it works fine.

[Guest]

Someone mentioned in another thread that disabling the Home Screen in references fixes the issue

Greyed Out Menus in Photoshop CC 2019

[D Fosse]

OK - there seems to be something fishy with the whole home screen.

Another user had the "classic" symptoms with grayed-out menu items, but claimed he was opening directly in Photoshop; no Lightroom at all. However, it was a raw file - so I asked if he had opened from the recent file list in the home screen. Never got a response to that.

I tested a file for myself, originally opened from Lightroom. It's in the recent list as a raw file - but from the home screen it opens through ACR. So again, there seems to be some background scripting at work here.

I generally advise people to kill that silly start screen ASAP - it just causes confusion by creating some sort of "virtual experience" instead of the real deal. It's the Lightroom catalog all over again, but in a place where you don't expect it. A lot of people steadfastly believe images are saved "in" Lightroom, and if things drop out from the catalog they have no idea where to find their files.

[Bojan Živković]

I have problem from time to time, with files opened using Home screen with exactly the same symptoms: menu items greyed out and in general everything freeze. The last time I had this experience was with PSD file which has nothing to do with Lightroom.

[D Fosse]

Well, in that case there's a very simple fix for all these problems

[hakeema47114738]

Thank you!!! That works

[D Fosse]

It's a known and acknowledged bug. A fix is in the pipeline. In the meantime, have Photoshop open first as Bojan says.