Can Lightroom avoid keeping an extra TIFF/PSD when I choose “Edit in Photoshop” but then cancel?
Asked 11/26/2012
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When I choose Edit in Photoshop from Lightroom, Lightroom creates a new TIFF/PSD and adds it to the catalog. If I later decide not to save any Photoshop changes, that extra file still remains in Lightroom. Is there any way to make Lightroom only keep the file if I actually save edits in Photoshop, or to stop it creating the extra copy in the first place?
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If your Camera Raw engines versions do not match: e.g. v7.1 in Lightroom and v7.3 in Photoshop.
Lightroom creates this copy and is NOT removed when you cancel your changes in Photoshop, I assume it works like this with Elements as well. I noticed when I fired up Photoshop from Lightroom that there was a warning about RAW Engine.
Answers from other thread: Can I stop Lightroom from creating a TIFF file when exporting to Photoshop?
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Usually, no. Lightroom’s edits to RAW files are non-destructive metadata, so when you choose Edit in Photoshop it must first render a real image file (typically TIFF or PSD) for Photoshop to open. That exported file is what you see added to the catalog, and Lightroom cannot wait until later to decide whether to create it.
So in normal use, the only way to avoid that extra file is not to use Edit in Photoshop unless you want to continue in Photoshop.
One exception mentioned by users is a Camera Raw version mismatch between Lightroom and Photoshop. In that case Lightroom may create an extra copy because the RAW processing engines differ. If you saw a Camera Raw warning, updating so both use matching versions may help avoid unwanted leftovers in that specific situation.
But in general, Lightroom must create a rendered file before Photoshop can edit it, so there isn’t a setting to only add it after you save Photoshop changes.
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