goraggio

I have set PSE 14 as an optional editor in LR Preferences. But when I try to move a photo from LR to PSE14 for editing, I get the message saying "PSE14 cannot open files in jpeg, or TIFF format either. No matter what resolution or bit depth I use.
Your advice please.

Linary Loc: UK

My first thought is have you set the LR External Editor preferences correctly? (its very easy to go wrong with it.)
Go to Edit > Preferences - External Editing
Go to about half way down the tab, click the preset name for PSE14
Check carefully that the entries which follow the Preset name are compatible with PSE14.
If all else fails, change them to JPEg, sRGB, 8 bits, any res, compression none.

Click the Choose button and make sure the exe file you are pointing at is the Editor exe file and not the Organiser exe file.

I no longer have Elements on this machine, but used to have PSE 9,10,11,13 and they all worked properly.

goraggio

Tried all of this, no help.
Thank you for your effort.

G Brown Loc: Sunny Bognor Regis West Sussex UK

LR 5 (disk) simply found my PSE 11 without any reference to preferences (it was the only editor I had on the computer at the time. (It might of asked me to confirm but it was so long ago.)

If you are using the 'pay for' LR and PS maybe it no longer looks for PSE or conflicts if you have the PS downloaded as well.

You might clear preferences and see if it 'finds' it on reboot.

goraggio

I could only get the photo to PSE14 by importing it directly from the Pictures folder on MacBook Pro. Never could get it from LR to PSE14???

Linary Loc: UK

Having tried everything above, have you tried resetting the LR Preferences?

Instructions at: http://www.lightroomqueen.com/articles-page/how-do-i-reset-lightrooms-preferences/

cthahn

I can not understand anyone going from LR to PSE. To PS for more features. I just came from PSE14 and will take it off my computer. LR has so many unique features which makes it so easy to use.

Linary Loc: UK

Layers, masking, liquify, filters to name just a few.

don26812 Loc: South Bay of Los Angeles, CA

PSE 15 is working fine for me as an external editor in LR CC and Windows 10. FWIW

Bushpilot Loc: Minnesota

What steps do you take to move the Lightroom image to PSE14?

G Brown Loc: Sunny Bognor Regis West Sussex UK

LR needs either PS or PSE to complete editing. Lots of people bought the disk.

MtnMan Loc: ID

You can't do layers in Lightroom. There are many things you can only do with layers.

cmoroney Loc: Pasadena, California

I go back and forth between LR 5.7 and PSE14 all the time, without any difficulties. This is how I set things up: in LR, open "Preferences" and then click on the "External Editing" tab. Go to "additional external editor" and click "choose" underneath the "Preset" pull-down menu. Navigate to the actual PSE *editor* rather than the *organizer*. Select "TIFF" as the file format and "sRGB" as the colourspace. Give this new setting a name, such as "Photoshop Elements 14".

I have about ten million external editing applications set up for LR (Nik, Topaz and MacPhun), and I added them all using the above sequence of steps.

Then once you have things set up, right-click on the picture you want to edit and select the "Photoshop Elements 14" option. This will convert the raw photo to TIFF, send it to Elements and open it up ready for editing. Then, when you're finished, "save" it from Elements back to the disk and LR will automatically add it to the catalogue.

Neither LR nor PS/PSE are complete by themselves, but when combined, they offer you all the functionality you want. They're different sides of the same coin. I shoot in RAW, do the global adjustments in LR and then send it to Photoshop Elements for the layering/spot adjustments. Then I save it from Elements and it automatically goes back into LR.

Linary Loc: UK

That is how it should work (as you know). Earlier I suggested resetting the preferences, but as you have quite a lot of external editors, I would suggest (if you have not already tried it) delete the PSE 14 preference altogether, quit LR, reopen and redo the preference.