Photoshop TO Lightroom

Very late to this thread but if you go from Lightroom to photoshop using the Edit In option, you can then just CTRL+S in Photoshop and it will automatically save the changes in Lightroom.

Hey all

Just to re-ignite this conversation.

There does seem to be some kind of issue with syncing photos back to LR from PS (definitely on my M1 MacBook Air).

My understaning is;

1. Open Lightrrom

2. Select the photo you want to edit and right click on it then 'Edit in Photoshop'

3. Photo opens in Photoshop, you do your editing

4. Then File, Save or CMD+S

5. Close Photoshop and the edited photo should now be in Lightroom

It isn't. Hasn't worked at all. No matter how many times I try it. The only method I can get to work is dragged the photo icon onto the LR logo.

Obviously some kind of issue between PS/LR and the M1.

Wow, all of this show what is wrong with Adobe PS and Lr. I have spend 3 hours trying to understand how best to save eidted photos in Ps, Lr and Camera RAW. I have done numerious experiments to see what happens to help figue it out and read many instructions and blogs like this. I think I'm getting close to figuring it out but not sure. And just to SAVE an edited photo!!

It sounds like the simple answer is you can't save a edited photo in Ps AND record it to Lr.  It has to be a several step process including Importing. Too bad, makes it tough and slow.

It’s been 6 years since this thread was originally started, and things have changed a little since then. If you are editing a Photoshop document and it isn’t already in your Lightroom Classic catalog, there isn’t a built-in feature to do that directly. But there is no need to go through the entire Lightroom Classic Import routine; there are shortcuts.

Photoshop now includes a Share icon, like you find on mobile. If you click the Share icon, there is a Lightroom Photos option. Click that, and the document will be uploaded to your Lightroom Photos in the cloud. In Lightroom Classic, open the catalog synced to Lightroom Photos. It will download the document and it will appear in the All Synced Photographs collection. (Do not use this method if the document came from Lightroom Classic, or the cloud-synced one will be a duplicate.)

(Edit: Adobe has removed QuickShare as of April 2022.)

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/whats-new/2022-2.html

Quote from Adobe link:

With the April release of Photoshop 23.3, Quick Share will be removed due to low usage, desire to simplify the options bar UI, and redundant functionality to other export functions.

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There is another very long thread on this forum where many users are asking for Adobe to bring back QuickShare.

Also, on the Mac, you can bypass the cloud by using the Mac-standard shortcut of dragging the document's proxy icon from the title bar and dropping it on the Lightroom Classic application icon. Dropping files on the Lightroom Classic application icon opens the Import dialog box. (I’m not sure if Windows provides something similar.)

Not sure exactly what you are doing, but the correct procedure is like this:

• Right click the image in Lightroom, and choose Edit in Photoshop. (or press Ctrl/Cmd + E with the image selected)
  The image will then open in Photoshop.
  Do not export the image, and then open it in Photoshop.
• When you've finished editing in Photoshop, do not use Save As, use Save.
  No dialog should appear asking you where to save.
• The image will appear in Lightroom after saving.
  If you can't see it, you have probably Sort order set to Added order in the toolbar, in which case the image will be at the end of the library.

1. Keep LR open while editing in PS (you have opened this image in PS directly from LR in the first place, right? )
2. You edit in PS and when done you click ctrl+w. 
3. you save when asked
4. go back in LR and you will find your image there waiting for you with all your edits from PS
5. be careful cause these are TIFF files that in my case are saved on image's directory with a size from 300 to 600 MB! (i edit 24MP raw files)

I am so sick of all these [abuse removed by moderator] people answering and not one person actually answers the question...

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I think I know exactly what he is talking about! If I START  EDITING a picture in Photoshop and finish what I want to do there, and then, I would like to put it lightroom for some other things, it is very difficult, unless one knows the exact steps to doit!!!

I suppose I have a similar question. When I am working with an image in Lightroom and decide I want to do an edit in photoshop, I click “open in photoshop” and it does so. Then, when I’m finished in photoshop, I ”save” (cmd-s). j don’t close Lightroom while I’m doing this. When I then click back to the still-open Lightroom in the dock, I can’t find any evidence of having made any changes in photoshop. So add me to the list of those who don’t understand how Lightroom works...

I think you are misunderstanding how lightroom works. It is a database that points to the images on the drive. In the database is a thumbnail and metadata for that image and thats all.

So You can save the image to anyplace you want on your drive. Preferable a folder that normally is used with lightroom. Ex. create a folder called graphics. Then in lightroom you use file>import to select that folder.

Now every time you add any images to that folder, all you need to do is sync that folder in lightroom and it will add those images. Syncing will also remove any images from the database that are no longer in that folder. So it works both ways to make sure the folder and the database are mirrored hence the name sync.

A bit of caution though, when you edit images in lightroom that edit is stored in the database not the file. So you need to select that image(s) {more than one image can be saved at once} and save. ctrl-s(windows) cmd-s(mac)

A sync will overwrite the metadata of either the database or the files on the drive. It is up to you to make sure they are the same before syncing to make sure you don't get any unwanted surprises.

As long as you saved the metadata to the files you are good to go for syncing the folder.