Lightroom not passing photo's to Photoshop

[PeterStewart]

Operating System

1. Windows 11

Following the last updates to both LR & PS it is no longer possible to send a photo from LR to PS for further editing.
I have uninstalled both programs & then reinstalled them but the problem remains.
Selecting Edit in opens PS, however, none of the menu options are available & I can't close PS without resorting to Task Manager.

Adobe Photoshop Version: 26.8.0 20250611.r.16 96beaa5 x64
Number of Launches: 42
Operating System: Windows 11 64-bit
Version: 11 or greater 10.0.26100.4351
System architecture: Intel CPU Family:6, Model:13, Stepping:1, AVX2, AVX-512, HyperThreading
Physical processor count: 8
Logical processor count: 16
Processor speed: 2304 MHz
Built-in memory: 32507 MB
Free memory: 20837 MB
Memory available to Photoshop: 24981 MB
Memory used by Photoshop: 70 %
Crash Handler: Adobe
DCX Version: 9.5.0
SAM SDK Version: 13.1.2
ACP.local Status:
- SDK Version: 5.4.0
- Core Sync Status: Reachable and compatible
- Core Sync Running: 7.4.0.31
- Min Core Sync Required: 4.3.66.28
Live Edit Client SDK Version: v5.0.0-beta.11
Adobe Firefly: Please use any generative AI feature to view the latest version.
OpenColorIO version: 2.4.2
C2PA library version: adobe_c2pa/0.14.2 c2pa-rs/0.43.0
NGL Version: 1.40.0.10
Chalkboard: Disabled.
Chalkboard Doc Create: Disabled.
D3D12Warp renderer: Disabled.
Precise Color Management for HDR Display: Disabled.
Alias Layers: Disabled
Highbeam: Enabled.
Image tile size: 1024K
Image cache levels: 4
Font Preview: Large
HarfBuzz Version: 8.4.0
TextEngine: ATE 7.9.0 (d611361)

Lightroom Classic version: 14.4 [ 202506051112-5918896a ]
License: Creative Cloud
Language setting: en
Operating system: Windows 11 - Business Edition
Version: 11.0.26100
Application architecture: x64
System architecture: x64
Logical processor count: 16
Processor speed: 2.3GHz
SqLite Version: 3.36.0
CPU Utilisation: 1.0%
Power Source: Plugged In
Built-in memory: 32506.6 MB
Dedicated GPU memory used by Lightroom: 5814.5MB / 5996.0MB (96%)
Real memory available to Lightroom: 32506.6 MB
Real memory used by Lightroom: 6480.7 MB (19.9%)
Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 14831.9 MB
GDI objects count: 1025
USER objects count: 3352
Process handles count: 4066
Memory cache size: 348.7MB
Internal Camera Raw version: 17.4 [ 2272 ]
Maximum thread count used by Camera Raw: 5
Camera Raw SIMD optimization: SSE2,AVX,AVX2
Camera Raw virtual memory: 3040MB / 16253MB (18%)
Camera Raw real memory: 3325MB / 32506MB (10%)

 

[Jimmsp]

Selecting Edit in opens PS, however, none of the menu options are available & I can't close PS without resorting to Task Manager.

Just to clarify, you have Lightroom Classic. It sounds like a PhotoShop problem.
I have no problems with either PS or PS Beta.

Try this - Open up PhotoShop first, and by itself. Can you open up a photo using the Open command.
If so, leaving PS open, open up Lightroom classic. Select a photo, and then "edit in Photoshop".
What happens?

 

[PeterStewart]

Just to clarify, you have Lightroom Classic. It sounds like a PhotoShop problem.
I have no problems with either PS or PS Beta.

Try this - Open up PhotoShop first, and by itself. Can you open up a photo using the Open command.
If so, leaving PS open, open up Lightroom classic. Select a photo, and then "edit in Photoshop".
What happens?

Hi Jimmsp, Thanks for the advice, appreciate your time.
Yes, I can open PS & open files with no problem. However, leaving it open I still can't pass photo's from LR.
However, I have downloaded PS Beta & it works fine (so far)

 

[Jimmsp]

Hi Jimmsp, Thanks for the advice, appreciate your time.
Yes, I can open PS & open files with no problem. However, leaving it open I still can't pass photo's from LR.
However, I have downloaded PS Beta & it works fine (so far)

Very strange that PS won't work, but PS Beta will. At this point I have no other ideas, except to report it to Adobe as a PS problem. I may open PS later and poke around in the preferences to see if anything pops out.

 

[Gnits]

There are various reports of issues similar to those described above. The root cause appears to be the sequence in which upgrades are applied to LrC, Photoshop and Photoshop beta. As I do not currently experiment with beta versions I have not paid attention to this issue… but you may find other discussions which outline the best way forward or someone with direct experience may chip in.