Photoshop/Lightroom Mobile: Edit in interoperability for iPad

I'm certain that's already on their radar, but extra votes can only help with priorities. In the meantime, I wrote up the workflow here.

I hate raining on all the Photoshop team’s hard work. I’m sure it wasn’t an easy project. It’s just very frustrating as a user. This is THE workflow for so many people. Round tripping to Photoshop from Lightroom is second nature on desktop. Perhaps they hit a show stopping snag late in development? In any case, brings my iPad workflow to a screeching halt. Was so looking forward to it

It's simply unacceptable.  

 Seriously, I have to wonder if Adobe even understands how people do their work! For photographers and photo editors, the ability to go from Lightroom to PSD and back is crucial. I can’t believe this feature is “on the radar”. LR Mobile can export to PSD Express (useless as it is), so it seems a no-brainer that it would be one of the first things offered. Are you guys trying to get us to jump ship to other apps? Because there are others who are listening to us!

I am very disappointed that round trip isn't available.  This needs to be top priority.

I've just spotted an interview with Tom Hogarty (big boss) in which he says:

like the current desktop versions, he definitely sees Lightroom being integrated with Photoshop on the iPad, sooner rather than later.
"I think without a doubt, we’re going to need what we’ve done on all the other surfaces, which is if I’m in Lightroom and I want to take it further than Lightroom can go, I want to edit it in Photoshop. [The Photoshop team has] an amazing 1.0 product out the door; we want to let them catch their breath, and then we’ll start knocking on the door."

Thanks for pointing at the interview. Clearly this thread's issue is going to get fixed, particularly with all the people chiming in with their votes. But Hogarty's general comments and emphasis on tutorials and a new kind of on-line camera club community does not align with what I would like to see. I know this sort of thing is the Adobe corporation's direction and clearly has been extremely successful for their profit line.

As a stock holder I am delighted (2000% increase since I bought in December 1999), but as a photographer, I feel let down as the basic things I want, like a convenient iPad field ingestion of images workflow, trickle out all too slowly. Thom Hogan has been writing about the continuing decline of the Interchangeable Lens Camera business and how it might impact the auxiliary businesses of which Adobe was traditionally a big example. I suspect we are seeing that result as Adobe corporate focusses on where they think they can make more money than just simple photography... sigh.

I've played with iPad Photoshop, and it's a fantastic experience for doing detailed masking work. But how the heck are we supposed to schlep our files over to it, then back into our LR catalog? How I would like my workflow to typically go is, pull up image(s) in LR Classic, edit in Photoshop (on desktop), do some command to send it to iPad Photoshop so I can do my masking work on each layer, then have that work appear back on my desktop where I can run Actions and other stuff... (then maybe tweak it some more on the iPad), then have all those edits appear in my LR catalog.

Instead, what am I supposed to do? Save it do a Creative Cloud folder in Photoshop, then re-import that into LR when I'm done? Maybe copy the file back to the origin folder via Finder/Explorer then Sync the folder to get it back in? Now suddenly despite how nice it is to actually work IN iPad Photoshop, I'm going to have to shelve it for now, and just use Sidecar so I don't have to go through all that extra file management.

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled Better Integration with Lightroom Mobile ..

I think this is a great start! Looking forward to new features. I would love to see a more seamless integration with Lightroom mobile like there is on desktop version. The integration with Photoshop Fix App is great, quick export and return with changes to Lightroom.

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled Bring 'Lightroom photos' to the 'Your Work' section.

The ability to open adjusted Lightroom photos from the Photoshop start screen on desktop is great. It would be nice to see the same workflow brought over to Photoshop for iPad.

There is no Camera RAW, but most of us use Lightroom, which can act for round-tripping. This is a vital, show-stopping feature for me, as I work in Lightroom and with NEF files. being able to round trip from Lightroom to photoshop and back is huge.

Thank you, Adobe. Lightroom now exports any filetype to Photoshop on iPad :)

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled Ability to open a document directly from Lightroom Mobile..

It would be very convenient to have the ability to open a document directly into Photoshop mobile from iOS Lightroom Mobile either within Lightroom or from within Photoshop.  Right now, you have to export it to Camera Roll, then import.

OK so was able to move a photo from Lightroom Classic to LR for iPad and then with the above instructions move it to PS for iPad. Yay!!

So I made some changes and then was able to see the changed photo in the Creative Cloud Ap on iPad but how do I get a changed photo from PS iPad back to Lightroom Classic on my desktop.