Drag & Drop Lightroom to Photoshop Issue.

[NSCORP - Mark]

I'm trying to drag a photo out of Lightroom CC and put into an open file in Photoshop. All I get is the red stop circle with a hash line through it when I hover over the file in PS.

Can this be done on a PC laptop? If so, can someone tell me how to make it happen - Thanks

Using a PC, Non cloud version, Everything is up to current release levels.

I can get the "Edit in" function to work just fine for single and multiple files.

I'm wanting to add a photo to a PS file that is already open - Drag from LR and drop into PS.

[Bojan Živković]

It seems there isn't functionality built in in Lightroom to place image into open document. Have you tried to open image then to drag it into open document?

[NSCORP - Mark]

If you mean having two images open in PS and then try to drag one into the other?  Then yes, I've tried that too and it doesn't work. 

Basically, is there any way to get a photo loaded into an open PS document as a new layer?  

Say I wanted to use a different photo in a stack, than what I originally brought over from LR.

How is this accomplished?

Seems fundimental, very basic, and I'm just missing something. 

[D Fosse]

If you mean having two images open in PS and then try to drag one into the other?  Then yes, I've tried that too and it doesn't work.

By @NSCORP - Mark

That will work and I can't imagine why it shouldn't. I do that all the time.

[NSCORP - Mark · Accepted solution]

OK, I’ve been watching a bunch of YouTube videos on this and one from PhotoshotCAFE gave me the information needed. It’s not straight forward as grabbing one tab and dragging it to the next tab. It’s one of these things where I need to balance on my left toe, wiggle my right pinky, while scratching the belly of a dragon, then magic happens.  Here’s the step by step I needed;

Load new image into PS so it appears as a new file tab next to the existing file tab.

Click on the new Photo  - Not the tab.

Drag this to the destination tab – Keep holding the click.

Move curser into the photo area in the destination tab – Keep holding the click.

Press the Shift key and let go of the click, let go of shift – Voila

Obviously, I needed Very basic info.