Adobe Lightroom Vs Photoshop

[Shelly Takacs]

Okayso here recently I was editing a photo in lightroom and decided it needed a little work done in photoshop. I right clicked the image, and went down to to the option "Edit in Adobe Photoshop". (otherwise known as command+e) However, this option was grayed out! This ruins my photo editing routine and I have customers waiting on photos. I have a Macbook Pro, and both Lightroom and Photoshop are completely up to date. I have tried utilizing another forum on this issue, but nothing recommended there will change anything.

I have uninstalled and reinstalled Photoshop. I have tried deleting the "com.adobe.Photoshop.plist". Nothing seems to work, and the support line for Creative Cloud is closed. I am in need of some help. Hopefully, someone can help me soon!

I somehow rearranged my photos after I imported them to lightroom. I had created smart previews for these folders, so I could still edit them, but I could not transfer them to photoshop. (That doesn't make sense but whatever.)

Is the image that you're trying to edit in Photoshop missing or offline is what I mean. In Grid view does the image thumbnail have either an exclamation mark or a white rectangle in the top right corner of the thumbnail border?

No, all of my photos are in the right spot and are not missing. Nothing is missing. They are just photos. I am noticing a pattern that shows that all RAW photos don't have the option. However, regular JPEG photos do.

Actually, they do have a white rectangle in the top right-hand corner of the photos, and I am using smart previews. But I haven't moved the photos around since i uploaded them so I don't know why they would be missing. How do I show lightroom where the photos are located at?

If all the "missing" photos are in one folder, check in the Folders Panel to see if the folder name is greyed out with a "?" mark. If so, and you know where the folder really is (or if it's been renamed outside Lightroom) then right-click on the folder name and select "Find Missing Folder". In the resulting file browser window, navigate to and select the correct folder.

I just did some experimenting, and I can use the "Edit in Photoshop"option on photos that are in another folder. Is it possible that I have done something to this particular folder that could have caused this?

I right clicked on the folder of photos that I was working on and clicked "Find Missing Folder". Once I clicked that I searched through my computer and clicked on where those photos were and now Lightroom can easily transfer the photos over to photoshop.

If this doesn't work then there is a real problem and I guess this link would help you. It's very time consuming and might not help you so I recommend you do what I said above before going this far. -photoshop-command-missing-photoshop.html

Lightroom is now designed to allow you to use smart previews during the editing process. The smart previews help speed up Lightroom somewhat. When Lightroom knows where the master images are it will use the smart previews until you zoom in on the image. Then it will switch to the preview of the raw image data. However, if images get moved or are on an external hard drive that becomes disconnected then Lightroom will only use the smart previews. In your case, the images were moved and Lightroom no longer was able to automatically point to those master images automatically And therefore only used the Smart previews. When using smart previews only, the Edit in Photoshop option is not available because the work done in Photoshop cannot be applied to a copy of the full sized image. So the option is unavailable by design.

I have a newbie question for you. I have recently started editing photos with Canon digital photo professional that came with my Rebel. It seems to do everything I want it to do with the exception of maybe ease of editing one particular section of a photo. Would it be worth it to move up to photoshop elements or adobe lightroom? Would I get that much bang for my buck? Thanks!

Why not tell us more about what you feel is missing and maybe we can suggest something. Recommended software is largely a matter of personal preference. DPP, Adobe Elements, LR, Affinity... I like DxO, because of its features and 3rd party lens support. But everyone here has a slightly different opinion often based on their own needs.

Thanks for your quick response. Largely I have been happy with DPP 4, and mostly I find I am using the sliders for sharpness, saturation, etc., although I have started using the histogram and curve to get rid of some shadows and clipping. I am wondering about moving up mostly because I sometimes want more control over a segment of a picture. I'd love the sky to be a bit bluer without adding blue to the bird's breast that I am shooting, and I have just taken some pictures of starry nights and I have tried stacking but no success yet (I used the free deepskystacker software which sort of works but DPP 4 was inconsistent it seems in its ability to work with TIFF files). I have had my Rebel T4i for probably 6 years but it is just in the last few months (I had to take a few months off work for a medical reason and there was the camera) that I got off the automatic functions and started taking a lot of shots. Hope that helps a bit.

...I am wondering about moving up mostly because I sometimes want more control over a segment of a picture. I'd love the sky to be a bit bluer without adding blue to the bird's breast that I am shooting, and I have just taken some pictures of starry nights and I have tried stacking but no success yet (I used the free deepskystacker software which sort of works but DPP 4 was inconsistent it seems in its ability to work with TIFF files)...

Don't know how deep you've gotten in to DPP4, but have you spent any time experimenting with the Color Adjustment Tool palette? It will allow you to make some pretty specific and narrow color adjustments for some shots. It may take a bit of time though until you start to get a feel for working with it.

Also, later versions of DPP4 (4.10 and above?) now have a Partial Adjustment Tool palette which can be used to mask off areas of the picture that you don't want to edit. It works well for things like lightening areas where someone's face didn't get enough flash fill. But it should also work to "juice up" color saturation, hue and/or brightness in specific areas. And again, you'll have to experiment some with the Blur Radius settings for the borders of your masked area.

... Recommended software is largely a matter of personal preference. DPP, Adobe Elements, LR, Affinity... I like DxO, because of its features and 3rd party lens support. But everyone here has a slightly different opinion often based on their own needs.

One of these days I'll download a trial of DxO PhotoLab and give it a try. Had DxO OpticsPro on my previous desktop and found it very capable and quicker than DPP4 on the same machine. My newer computer works much better with DPP4 but I'm still curious to see what improvements this new PhotoLab might have over OpticsPro. Maybe they've decluttered the interface a little bit ? ? ?

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