Import all from Lightroom to PSE - previous edits?

I would love to know how you finally resolved this.  I am once again considering bailing out of Lightroom as my usage has become very sporadic and I fear my poor old Lightroom 6 will soon become unusable.  I understand that Adobe makes more money if they can force me to subscribe to Classic, but by not providing an offramp to their own product (Elements) they are instead forcing me to consider using someone else's.  I would go back to Elements, even if it meant that my work flow had to change. But I dont want to lose the work I have put in editing and organizing my photos in Lightroom.   And, like you, I want to retain the original file, as well as the edits (which of course are "non-destructive" in the Lightoom eco-system.) 

By @nancythenice

I am also very interested in the experience of @lindaf62080553 .

What I can say beside my former answer is that you can test yourself for free and without changing anything to your current Lightroom library. As already stated, the parametric editing does work. The original is unchanged, the edits are saved and understood by the ACR module in Elements. You can always output psd/tiff files with absolutely all LR parametric applied included those not available in in the PSE ACR. You can apply or edit the smaller set of parametric editing  common to LR and PSE ACR without creating an output file.

Just consider the percentage of files in your library which would need reprocessing with the more limited set of parametric editing of PSE ACR. For me, that would be a few percents only. And since I have always thought that even the recent  functions added to LR are not enough to compensate for the flexibility and richness of the normal PSE editor with all its tools and layers, I would lose nothing for editing. I would only have a slighter reduced percentage of paramatrically edited files and more 'version sets'.

What you can do for free.

- download and install the fully functional PSE trial version which you can test for 30 days.

- In LR, use the function to write metadata to files on a folder selection or for your whole library.

- Import all those files in the catalog. You'll recover your keywords, captions and ratings as well as the parametric edits in xmp sidecar files for raws and in the metadata header for jpegs and other non raws.

- As already stated, I think you'll have the issue of the jpegs showing a thumbnail of the original 'as shot' file in their thumbnails. Opening in ACR will recognize the parametric edits and just changing a tiny thing in the edits before clicking 'Done' will update the thumbail. Now, I generally solve this thumbnail issue by the following batch process: I open about 50  jpegs in 'Open in ACR' in the editor. I apply a tiny change in sharpening to all selected files, click 'Done' and the invisible changes trigger an update of the thumbnails. All those jpegs now open automatically in the ACR module.

Also note that in that 30 days free trial, you can test the 'auto' features available in the current organizer and not available in old LR versions. There are also nice scripts available in the editor via the very affordable Elements+ plugin to recover some of the LR features missing in ACR.

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