Hi Bill, Can you do a test? Select a folder in the Folders panel with a few raw photos in it. Select one of those photos and use the Photo > Edit in > Edit in Photoshop menu. When the photo opens in Photoshop, grab the Brush tool and paints a big X across the photo (to make it easy to see the edit vs the original), then go to File > Save. What happens exactly after that?

Hi Rob, Maybe you can help me with an issue I have been stuck on for over a month now… when I go and edit my file in photoshop the file does not automatically land back into LR. It used to, but I have to perform a “save as” even if I only hit save, it brings up the save as command, then I have to import the edit from inside LR my setting look all the same as what you have shown here, . Any thoughts on this post is a bit old. I did an update to CC on LR and PS and It seems like that is when this behaviour changed on me

Any help is appreciated very much

Well it depends on the file type you have selected in Lightroom when you choose the Edit in Photoshop command. If you have a raw photo selected, then Photoshop simply launches and the copy appears in Photoshop, no prompts from Lightroom (and it has been this way for a decade). However, if you start with a non-raw photo (JPG, PSD, TIF, PNG) then you will get a prompt because you have to choose if you want to edit a copy with Lightroom adjustments or simply open the original non-raw photo to continue editing.

I have the same question. I no longer get the 3 options in LR when I select EDIT IN. Instead PS launches. I called Adobe and they said it was always that way. Uh uh. It changed.

Thanks for addressing a frustrating issue in each of the LR series I’ve used. — JA

You only see the dialog when you have a non-raw photo selected in Lightroom. It sounds like you were working on a raw photo.

Here’s a video that answers that question: https://lightroomkillertips.com/advantage-opening-lightroom-image-photoshop-smart-object/

It uses lossless compression to make file size smaller. There is a tradeoff in that compressed TIFs can take longer to open and save.

The advantage to using Zip compression with TIF files is that it will compress the file (lossless) and result in a smaller file size than uncompressed. However, there is a tradeoff in that compressed zips can take longer to open and save/close. Everything is a tradeoff, so you need to decide what is best for your needs. That said, if you end up with files with lots of layers PSD will probably result in a smaller file size than TIF.

If I start in Lr with a raw photo, edit, then send a copy with adjustments to Ps, that copy becomes my new master version (has both Lr and Ps edits), so I keep it. I also keep the raw original.