I suspect that under the hood the raw file is still involved in the handshaking with Photoshop, like Lightroom tells Photoshop to open the underlying raw file as a PSD or a TIFF and, since Photoshop can’t read the raw file, it can’t create the target PSD or TIFF. If you have a new camera and use Lightroom 5 with an older version of Photoshop, you may have already seen this dialog.Įven with the TIFF option selected, Photoshop would not open up the resulting file. While the same camera raw version incompatibility exists today for my D7000, it appears that in Lightroom 5, the workaround is no longer necessary, as Lightroom does a better job with the communicating the issue. It turns out, previous versions of Lightroom weren’t as graceful with the camera raw incompatibility, so I devised a workaround that would at least have Lightroom prompt me with the option to render a PSD. However, when I tried to have Lightroom send the raw file in to Photoshop, literally nothing happened.
#Adobe photoshop lightroom 5 upgrade update#
An update to Lightroom added support for my then-new Nikon D7000, so I was able to import and edit my raw files. That is what happened to me a few years ago when I picked up a new camera. The different versions isn’t an issue if you are using a camera that is supported by the older version of Camera Raw, but for newer cameras, you can run in to a situation where Lightroom can open a raw file that Photoshop can’t. I bought Adobe CS4 Production Premium several years ago and, since it does everything I need it to do, I skipped CS5 and CS6. One of the side effects of forgoing Photoshop upgrades, though, is that as Lightroom and the accompanying Camera Raw gets updated, Adobe doesn’t update Camera Raw in older versions of Photoshop. For amateur and semi-professional photographers, that’s not always economically feasible. Even with the Creative Cloud’s subscription model, you can spend hundreds of dollars a year to keep your tools current. Photoshop is expensive, especially when you buy one of the bundles. One of the benefits of being able to do all of my post processing in Adobe Lightroom is that I don’t need to rely on Photoshop.
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