Photoshop: "Load layers can not merge Smart Object documents. They will be skipped."

Yeah, good point. I came up against this the other day too- assumed I was doing something wrong and had to do it manually.  Seems like a fundamentally very useful thing to be able to do. 

I see the same problem with Photomerge.  Using Bridge 2021 11.0.0.83 and Photoshop 22.0.1 I get "Photomerge can not merge Smart Object documents. They will be skipped".  This worked fine with Bridge and Photoshop 2020.  On macOS 10.14.6 Mojave.

I had the same issue, and find a way to work around it:

1. Open all the files in Bridge/Raw.

2. Select all the files.

3. Select "Open", not "Open Object", to open all the files in PhotoShop.

4. Under File, select Automate->Photomerge.

5. In Photomerge, click on the "Add Open Files" buttom, and other selections.

Hi,

Thanks for your feedback, we are able to reproduce the issue. Team is investigating the same.

Thanks,

Bridge Team

Hi Rahul,

I am having same problem, has there been a fix for this?

Thanks for your help

Ben

I had same problem.

Switch off "load as smart objects" in ACR workflow preferences, restart Bridge, Photoshop and problem is gone. 

However, this is  annoying, as by default I want to open RAW files as a smart object.

I have reported this to Adobe

Still no fix in these last two updates‽ 
What is the status of this fix, AND of the gradient "opaque-to-transparent" blend glitch?

I am having the same problem.

Just checked, it it still not working properly.

If you want to photo merge , you first have to switch off the option "Open in Photoshop as Smart Objects" in the preferences. This is extremely annoying.

To add insult to injury, this only takes a few lines of code to fix and this problem has been reported more than six months ago. 

Hi, see attached screenshot to toggle smart objects of in preferences

Hi, That has worked. Thanks very much for your help. I did not look inCamera Raw!