Lightroom to PS and back

Hi, After sending a photo to PS from Lightroom 2, editing it, and returning it to Lightroom, I no longer get the
message in the history panel "edit in external application" and the date of said edit, like I used to get in Lightroom 1.4.
I'd really like that back; any thoughts on how I might accomplish it? Thanks!

I didn't realize it was gone, but a quick test shows there's no indication as you mention.
If you're still on v 2.0, you probably should update to 2.3 for other reasons. Just d/l from the Adobe site, and install- it's a complete version, not a patch or updater.

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Hi Lightroom/Photoshop wizards,
I work in LR and PS CC. I am now working for someone else and want to make sure that our edited images end up in lightroom after editing in a logical manner so that we can easily see which images will be used for our photo albums.
Here is how I am working:
Import photos into LR, give 4 star rating to images that will go into album
Make some LR edits
Edit photo with PS (directly from LR)
Save image in PS
go through all images to hand pick the ones that I want in the album (now there are copies) This is the part where everything falls apart. I end up with redundant files and I can't distinguish the finished ones (other than looking one by one to determine the correct version to use). Is there a logical way to handle this?
Export to separate "album" folder selected images
Also, one extra question, If I am working with high res jpegs (rather than raw), how do I maintain the size of the files? I exported original file and it did not carry with it any changes made in Lightroom.
Thanks!
Lisa

I am sorry if I was not clear. I was thinking that there might be a quick and simple way to identify or flag images that I want to track for say and album. I want to eliminate any confusion or taking the wrong version of a file. Perhaps I should just ask what a reliable, logical workflow is when working in LR/PS round tripping. Perhaps making PS edits first, then Lr changes? I want the simplest, cleanest, logical, least amount of confusion when working on images for an album. Having 2 or 3 versions of the same image can lead to confusion. Some of our images will not be edited in PS, others will.
No, you certainly want to edit photos in LR first, and then if necessary send them to PS for additional edits that are not available in LR.
I'm still not clear about "eliminate any confusion". What confusion? As I said, the photos that have been edited by PS will have the word "edit" in the file name, while the photos that have not been sent to Photoshop will not have "edit" in the file name. Also, when you send a file to PS, you can ask LR to stack the PS edited version with the version that has not been sent to PS, thus keeping the pair side-by-side in the Library module.
My second question is exporting out jpegs without losing any resolution - basically copying the files to another folder for example "edited album images" folder and keeping them in the lr database. Is there a way to do this through Lr? When I chose "export" and "original" lr edits did not carry through.
So in your first message, you spoke of file size, and now you speak of resolution. These are not the same. So which is it? To maintain the resolution, you uncheck the box that says "Resize to Fit".
I don't understand why you want to copy files to some other folder, Lightroom provides collections and keywords and plenty of other tools to allow you to organize and identify these photos for whatever purpose you want. So you would use these tools to achieve the organization of your original photos or the Photoshop edited versions of the photos. Without a clear justifcation, I would say that in most cases there is not a need to achieve organization of exported photos. Furthermore there is no "copy" command in Lightroom (except at import which we don't seem to be talking about).
Reading between the lines, it sounds like you want to export to save your edits and then maintain some organization of your edited photos? Is that correct? As I said, there is no need to do this (nor is it an effective way to proceed). You perform the organization of your photos in Lightroom, no need to export simply to organize. Exporting is performed when the photo is needed outside of Lightroom for some non-Lightroom purpose (e.g. e-mail, web, print, use in some other program).

Exporting from Lightroom to Photoshop and back to Lightroom shows different results in Lightroom than in Photoshop

I has set the color space to ProPhoto RGB in both Lightroom and Photoshop. I have also calibrated my monitor.
But when I export a photo from Lightroom to Photoshop and edit it there before saving it, the photo in Lightroom is very different than what the Photoshop edit shows.
Photoshop is to the left, Lightroom to the right.

Ask in the LR/ PS forums and provide details about your system, your files, your develop settings, other stuff. You need to be much more specific.
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When I export a photo from Lightroom into Photoshop, I make my edits, and then I select save. In Photoshop the photo changes to a psd file as it should. But when I go back into Lightroom, the photo does not appear in the original folder it was sent from. It appears in a new folder that I did not create. When I try to "move" the picture from this new folder back to it's original folder it says that the file already exists in the original folder, but there is NO photoshop edited picture in that original folder - only in the new folder. I know I must have a setting wrong, but I have searched and searched and I can't figure out what is wrong. I can't seem to figure out how to get the photos to go from Lightroom into Photoshop back into Lightroom and end up sitting next to the original picture in the folder it came from.! Any ideas? I am using Lightroom 5.4 (everything is up to date) and Photoshop CC (latest version). I have a Macbook Pro computer.

Sure. Here are two images. The first one is of the original picture in it's original folder. The second one is of the edited picture in the "new" folder that Photoshop/Lightroom created. I left the photo info on the picture so you can see it. Any help would be so much appreciated!
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I am working on improving my workflow and have a slant on what appears to be a common question.
If I make a series of changes to a DNG in Lightroom 4.3, then switch to Photoshop CS6 for additional changes (like removing blemishes and softening an image, I know some of this can be done in LR now, but bear with me). Is it possible to return to Lightroom and change a setting (like white balance) and have the change reflected in Photoshop?
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No. I would not adjust the white balance in Photoshop because Lr can do that better.
Yes, in Photoshop you can do a intricate curve with black-point, white-point, and several neutral points in-between - but how often is that needed?
Apart from images that I edit in Photoshop because I want to do layers, and other things that Lr cannot do (for instance that intricate curve), I use Photoshop only for the clone tool, the patch tool, and the content-aware fill. Everything else I do in Lr - simply because its easier and also because its non-destructive. In Lr I can always "undo" by going back in the history palette.
If I want non-destructive in Photoshop I have to use adjustement layers. But that increases file size dramatically.
Before we had Lr, I was using Photoshop for everything. Now I'm hardly using it because Lr does it easier.
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Lightroom to photoshop and back on a Mac

Hi
I appear to have an intermitent problem ..........
When I take on image from a collection in Lightroom into Photoshop, clicking on Lightroom edits, to complete the necessary edits and then click save the image doesn't appear in the collection.
The image appears in the original folder but not the collection. This doesn't happen all the time but is time consuming when it does.
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OK I had a look and now this sounds foggy:
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