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Martin3421415730d0
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December 22, 2023
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Photoshop does not send automatically the photo back to Lightroom after edit

  • December 22, 2023
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Hi so here is the issue that I have and I can not seem to find help . I contacted Adobe few times already and they do not have a solution for me.. When I am in Lightroom CC and click EDIT IN PHOTOSHOP the photo would be send to photoshop and after I am done editing I would exit photoshop, or press command+s in order to send back the photo to Lightroom. But everytime I do that Photoshop would open another window asking me where to save the photo and in which format, after trying different variations I found out that the only thing I need to change is the FORMAT from photoshop to Tiff and click save. That would do the trick and Photoshop and Lightroom would sync the photo. But now everytime I am done editing in photoshop and want to save-exit and send to lightroom I would get that window in Photoshop asking where to save it and in what format.. I used to be able to just click save and exit and photo is there.. Do I have to change any settings? I tried reinstalling both programs, I also tried installing older versions but the problem is still here. Please help

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    dmsf
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    May 21, 2024

    I have had this happen so much I quit using it. It's such a waste of time to have all my edits just disappear. NEVER TRUST ADOBE WITH THE FILE MANAGMENT.  My advice: export the highest quality photo you can from lightroom to a DNG, and then edit that. It's really not much more clunky than the "edit in photoshop" button and you'll never lose hours of work to Adobe. It also opens it up so you can edit in Affinity Photo and just pay for Lightroom if you don't need the rest of the adobe suite.

     

    That said, you may find it in the lightroom catalog. I'm not sure exactly what the method would be on Windows but on MacOS it is this:

    1. Go to the folder where the lightroomlibrary.lrlibrary is stored. By default this is in "user/Pictures"
    2. right click the LightroomLibrary.lrlibrary file and select "Show Package Contents"
    3. Look for a folder that's just a jumble of numbers and letters like this "2634cc7caf664d5d9651d485536af282" and open that
    4. Look for a folder inside it called "originals"
    5. From here there are folders for specific dates. You can skip a lot of messing around by just searching for "Edit.tif" in the originals folder. Otherwise, navigate the folder for the year the photo was imported, then inside that look for a folder for the day it was imported.
    6. Any edits from photoshop should have the "Edit" suffix, but you can also look by extension since edits from photoshop will be Tiffs
    7. Unfortuntately you can't just drag it into Lightroom because it will say there's already a file in the library with that name, even though it doesn't show it. So just move it to a folder outside the lightroom catalog, rename and re-import. It will lose the connection to the original but at least your edits are back

     

    didiermazier
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    didiermazierCommunity Expert
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    December 22, 2023

    Regarding this aspect maybe somebody can explain one thing :

    When Edit in Photoshop they are a few options : Edit the file with lightroom corrections, a copy or the original file…

    I noticed this do not work with DNG files which are always opened directly in Pshp, but it works with other file formats…

     

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    Martin3421415730d0Author
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    December 22, 2023

    Hi I use Lightroom CC not Lightroom Classic so when I click EDIT IN PHOTOSHOP I do not get any options like the ones you were talking about. All it happens is the photo is send to photoshop

    Kevin Stohlmeyer
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    Kevin StohlmeyerCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    December 22, 2023

    What version of Photoshop and LR are you using? Did you ever install the PS Beta?

    The solution in other various threads is to install Photoshop 2024 first, with no Beta version installed (if you do - uninstall the beta) then install LR. Order of operation matters.

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    Martin3421415730d0Author
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    December 22, 2023

    Hi I am using the final versions on both Lightroom CC and Photoshop. I tried to install Photoshop first and then Lightroom but I still have the same problem

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