HDR Pro grayed out in Lightroom

Question

The "Edit in" HDR pro is grayed out in Lightroom 5.  I read that the File form had to be tiff not PSD, so I changed that in preferences to no avail.  I am a creative cloud subscriper using Lightroom 5 and Photoshop CC, both of which were downloaded from the cloud.  What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

OK, sounds like some kind of odd glitch where LR isn't interfacing properly with PS. I only mentioned the Nik plugins because of the previous post by Jim, who got the impression you were using them (I guess because they have an application that's called HDR Efex Pro).
I sometimes read about this kind of problem where LR & PS aren't "talking" to each other properly, and I believe that the usual solution is to uninstall both applications, then re-install PS and LR in that order. This way, LR should automatically become "aware" that PS CC is installed and available for it to interface with. Not the simplest solution of course, but note that uninstalling will not touch your LR catalogue or settings - you'll be able to get back and running pretty quickly. Of course, as you're using CC, you may need to do the uninstalling via the Adobe Application Manager (or whatever it's called) - I've opted not to go down the subscription route, so I can't comment on that side of things. Before you try the uninstall method, you could always just see if deleting your LR preferences file might fix this...
Anyway, hope that's of some help.
M