Since updating to Lightroom 11.4.1, Mac users have had a warning message when using Edit In…Photoshop. It says “This version of Lightroom may require the Photoshop Camera Raw plug-in version 14.4.1 for full compatibility.” But in the CC App Camera Raw is marked as up-to-date on version 14.4. There is no version 14.4.1 available on macOS! So what does the error message mean, and what should you do?
Lightroom versions and Camera Raw compatibility
Usually when Lightroom is updated, a corresponding version of Camera Raw (also known as ACR) is released. This means the edits are identical in either version. For example, for Lightroom Classic 11.4, the fully compatible version of Camera Raw is 14.4.
Occasionally Adobe releases a quick-fix double-dot version to fix an important bug, as they did with Lightroom Classic 11.4.1. Double-dots are fully compatible with the existing Camera Raw version (14.4), however Lightroom’s mistakenly throwing the incompatibility warning on macOS. (It’s not happening on Windows, because a Camera Raw 14.4.1 version was released to fix a crash bug that didn’t affect macOS. 14.4 is still the latest on macOS.)
Because they’re fully compatible, you can simply click Open Anyway and it’ll behave exactly as it would when you were using 11.4. If you use Edit In…Photoshop a lot, you may want to tick the box Don’t show again to stop it asking every time.
When the next versions of Lightroom Classic and Camera Raw are released, the message will disappear again, until the next time the versions are out of sync.
For extensive information on Lightroom Classic, see Adobe Lightroom Classic – The Missing FAQ.
If you have the Photography Plan, then as well as Classic you have access to the Lightroom cloud ecosystem including the mobile apps and web interface. For more information on these apps, see Adobe Lightroom – Edit Like a Pro.
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Thank you for the explanation, much appreciated.
Thank you!!!!!
I have been wondering about that message. Thanks, Veronica you always come through!
Should have been Victoria … sorry!
Don’t worry, lots of people make that mistake! Glad we could help!
Thanks a lot for this info! 🙂
Interestingly, as I use Lightroom to send images to photoshop with the ‘open as layers in photoshop’ command, to do multi-image compositing, I receive this message but without the option to not show message again. It pops up *every* time, which is mildly irritating. Any news on a fix?
That is a little irritating, and it still comes up even if you have said not to show again when opeing one image.
It should be fixed when the next release of ACR / Lightroom is released.
Does anone have the following issue – I ignore the warning as I’m updated, but after editing in Ps and saving back to LrC I notice that the colours in the saved version in LrC have changed – more green and yellow, less reds and magentas. This is not apparent when in Ps, only when saved back to LrC. Can anyone throw some light on this issue? Thanks
Yes I have the same issue. this is clearly not correct and I need a fix ASAP
I couldn’t agree more!
And there is another Problem: If you have set LR to send raw files to PS using ProPhotoRGB, PS uses AdobeRGB as color space and the colors have changed. These are serious issues and adobe needs to fix this ASAP. As a subscriber to the full Creative Cloud plan, I’m hugely disappointed. One of the benefits Adobe claimed for the cloud subscription was faster updates when something goes wrong…
What are you guys selecting in Photoshop’s Color Settings? I’m not seeing this issue but there may be settings set differently.
I had to begin saving my 16bit to 8bit for consistant colors in lightroom after editing in ps
Using 14.4 instead of 14.4.1 shouldn’t affect color space… tell me more?