When I first used this, a warning message came up: "This version of Lightroom may require the Photoshop Camera Raw plug-in Version 7.0 for full compatibility."
Supposedly one can update via the help menu in Photoshop. I tried this. There is no update Version 7.0. The latest is 6.6, which I have.
Further in the warning dialog are the options to choose "Render using Lightroom", "Open anyway" or "Cancel". Also you can click a box not to show the warning again, which I did.
From that point on, none of the develop settings would transfer to CS5! I had no clue, until I went to the Adobe user forum to see if anyone had a similar problem. Boy, Howdy! lots of folks like myself, who shoot only RAW (the jpeg alterations do transfer) are spitting mad at Adobe for offering a product not compatible with Photoshop.
The workaround is to restore the warning dialog and render in LR. This creates a TIF file in the catalog, which then is edited with the appropriate settings in Photoshop. Fine, except what to do with the TIF file. You can delete it, I suppose, or color code it so you know which is which. In my mind, this is an unnecessary complication, but it could have some advantage, especially if you want to reprocess the RAW image; you would have a record to compare the two or more processings.
Posted by Lorna Taylor on March 16, 2012 at 6:36 PM
Thanks for the heads up Phil, I have not updated my LR yet, have not had time, but I will now know what to expect !
You might be better off waiting for Adoobie to fix this before upgrading to LR4. Perhaps if enough poeple provide their thoughts to them, it will probably be fixed in short order.
--P
Posted by Paul DeCesare on March 17, 2012 at 2:46 AM
ACR is a Plugin for Photoshop but is part of the native code in Lightroom according to Jeff Schewe who works with the Adobe programmers, so this makes NO sense, other than some leftover code that they didn't catch in the code review. I bet that's a function that was programmed to work with CS6 and it didn't get removed after testing the code. As a software developer I can tell you that this is a typical result from due dates being picked by Marketing VPs and not the software developers.
Preston is right, better to wait, how much other stuff was left inside before they compiled and shipped the production version? BTW Phil, you're using a retail shrink-wrapped version, not Beta, correct? lol!
Adobe needs to know about this. I would submit a bug report right away, they can't fix it unless they know it's there.
Julie Kmoch (Sr. Development Manager) 1 day ago
We are going to escalate a release candidate of 4.1 to make a build available with this fix as soon as possible. My goal is to make this happen within the next two weeks, but there are a couple of other issues we want to take care of at the same time, and we need to make sure they are sufficiently tested before we post the build. My apologies that this slipped through.
I heard about this on the TWiP podcast. The issue is the version of ACR in Photoshop is older than what is in Lightroom 4. Any ACR modifications you do in Lightroom will not transfer when you open in Photoshop. Once the new version of Photoshop comes out (or Adobe offers a patch) then the issue will go away. It's not a design flaw but a product releaase scheduling flaw.
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6 repliesSupposedly one can update via the help menu in Photoshop. I tried this. There is no update Version 7.0. The latest is 6.6, which I have.
Further in the warning dialog are the options to choose "Render using Lightroom", "Open anyway" or "Cancel". Also you can click a box not to show the warning again, which I did.
From that point on, none of the develop settings would transfer to CS5! I had no clue, until I went to the Adobe user forum to see if anyone had a similar problem. Boy, Howdy! lots of folks like myself, who shoot only RAW (the jpeg alterations do transfer) are spitting mad at Adobe for offering a product not compatible with Photoshop.
The workaround is to restore the warning dialog and render in LR. This creates a TIF file in the catalog, which then is edited with the appropriate settings in Photoshop. Fine, except what to do with the TIF file. You can delete it, I suppose, or color code it so you know which is which. In my mind, this is an unnecessary complication, but it could have some advantage, especially if you want to reprocess the RAW image; you would have a record to compare the two or more processings.
You might be better off waiting for Adoobie to fix this before upgrading to LR4. Perhaps if enough poeple provide their thoughts to them, it will probably be fixed in short order.
--P
Preston is right, better to wait, how much other stuff was left inside before they compiled and shipped the production version? BTW Phil, you're using a retail shrink-wrapped version, not Beta, correct? lol!
Adobe needs to know about this. I would submit a bug report right away, they can't fix it unless they know it's there.
Paul D, you were right.