I have called - and waited on hold - for support twice today.  In both cases I gave them my email address and phone number in case we were disconnected.  In both cases they disconnected me without any resolution and before giving me a case number.  In neither case did they call me back.  I'm not impressed with Adobe, either for this release or for your customer support.

No, the warning is not the issue.  As I've said, "supported cameras" are not the problem. 

I do initial processing on my images, then using Lightroom CMD E push them to Photoshop for further editing.  The message says "7.0 may be required for full compatibility" should I ignore that warning and click "Open Anyway"  because there really aren't any compatibility issues?

LR 4 Develop module is much different than LR 3,  just as CS5 version of ACR is different than what I've seen in the CS6 beta.   My assumption is there would be compatibility issues - as the warning says - when using LR4's develop engine then passing it on to CS5.  I don't use ACR in Photoshop since I use Lightroom, I use Photoshop for detailed image editing in conjunction with the Nik Software selective tool run as a window within Photoshop.

So how about a clear answer:  Just click "Open Anyway" and everything will work great?  When I first work on an image in LR4, then further edit it in Photoshop CS5 with ACR 6.7 installed, Save and Close the image in Photoshop sending it back to Lightroom it will all work just like yesterday when I did all that in Lightroom 3 without any error messages?

I'm having the same problem....I updated ACR to 6.7 and it's still giving me the error message to download a non-existant version of ACR 7.0 when exporting an image to CS5 for more editing...I tried clicking "Open anyway" and the image doesn't render properly in CS5 it renders without the LR4 settings.  They definately have a compatibility issue....I'm editing Nikon D3s files .NEF....untill they fix it you can process the image in LR4 and then when the error pops up select "render in lighroom" it generates a TIFF (or whatever you have it set to) next to the raw file then you can edit that in CS5....not ideal by any means though, but it does retain LR4 edits

Everyone acts like this is some big deal.  Just select render using Lightroom and don't show this dialog anymore.  Doesn't that fix the problem?  When you upgrade to CS6 you won't have this problem, it's always been this way. 

RSmith you are right it's not exactly a big deal, but when you pay money for something you expect it to work properly yes?  I prefer to edit the RAW file with lightroom adjustments, but thats just me...it worked just fine this way in LR3 so I'm not sure where "it's always been this way" comes from

amen geb01

What are you talking about?  It does work properly.  It warns you that PS doesn't have this version of camera raw and lets you render in Lightroom.  After that it won't bother you again.  You guys are acting like something is wrong, it's working just as it's supposed to.  Every Lightroom upgrade has had this issue, that is what I mean it's always been this way, it's been this way with every new version, I've been using it since the original beta.  PS has to catch up on it's camera raw version, that is how Adobe makes you upgrade Photoshop if you really care that it has to render first in Lightroom.  Basically if you don't like this you will have to upgrade to CS6, it's always been like this.  Otherwise, just render in Lightroom, what's the big deal.  When I go into photoshop I'm doing pixel editing not non-distructive anyway.

You select "render in Lightroom", "don't show this dialog again", problem solved.

KateMann wrote:

 

...at this point I am assuming that the edits that I just performed in Lightroom are now rendered in the photoshop file that I'm looking at, which is still a dng.

Am I correct or not?

 

I edit the file in Photoshop and save it as a psd. It pops up in Lightroom.

 

I assume that the psd now has the cumulative work that I have done in both programs.

 

Am I correct still or not?

If you've used PV 2012 in LR4 you need to download and install Camera Raw 6.7 RC1 in order to render the settings into Photoshop CS5/5.5. Then yes, you'll be getting the proper rendering from LR4.

I think rsmith...this is a difference in personal workflows...I can gaurentee you when using my workflow this is NOT working properly, as geb states....you should be able to edit the image in LR then edit the raw (with LR adjustments) in PS then it should save a sidecar TIFF or PSD file next to the original in LR, but either way it doesn't carry the LR changes unless you save a copy of the image in LR first which is what it seems you do, and then you edit a TIFF or PSD file (that lightroom created)  which is just fine for you but for those of us that make tonal adjustments in LR then take to PS to edit more from there and PREFER to use the raw file.... then this new version of lightroom doesn't work.  Additionally if this version  works fine for you and your workflow....just leave this conversation

Actually you are still wrong.  This same problem occured in the LR3 upgrade, the fix was an already present beta version of ACR followed by a general release of that ACR version.  It did not require a CS upgrade, only an updated version of ACR, a module with CS.

Ok, I guess if you are wanting to edit the raw file camera raw in Photoshop it might not work properly.  But my question is WHY?  Lightroom has the same controls as camera raw, why would you be going into PS to do the same thing as you are doing in Lightroom.  Once you do any pixel editing, which is what I use PS for, you are going to have to save out a TIFF correct?  In my mind I just can't see any possible reason I would want to edit a picture in Lightroom and camera raw.  And to geb01, I'm pretty sure you are wrong.  I'm not going to reinstall CS4 and Lightroom 3 to test it, but I can bet if you try to edit a Lightroom 3 file in CS4 you will get the same dialog, perhaps I'm thinking of CS3 and Lightroom 3.  Or who knows, I could be thinking of CS3 and Lightroom 2, but I know I've been through this before. But whichever it is they do eventually make you update Photoshop if you want to keep camera raw and Lightroom on the same version, otherwise you just render in Lightroom.  I will leave this conversation if you like, I just seem to be the only one here that has been through this before and can explain this isn't anything new.  I completely agree though that you should be able to call tech support and they should explain this, or they should tell you before upgrade, so bad on Adobe for that. 

Here is what I am using and it seems to be working for me.  LR4, PS5, ACR 6.6.  I tried it 3 times using the .NEF file.  Once making a variety of adjustments, picking edit in PS, clicked open anyway and all adjustments showed up in PS.  Tried another with no adjustments and it opened with no adjustments, and a third with heavy vibrance and it showed up fine in PS.  Camera is a Nikon D2X.  So I don't know, am I missing something, because it all looks good here.

Bryan

which is not true for me:

- LR4 on Win/ / 64 bit

- Canon raw file converted to DNG

- PV2012

- Using some of the new sliders of LR4 (like highlights)

- edit in CS5 (with ACR 6.7RC installed)

- open with "open anyway"

- edits do NOT show up in CS5 !!

- open wit "render in LR"

- edits do show up in CS5, but new tif/psd file created

regards

Daniel

I don't understand why Adobe is so silent and unhelpful with this ongoing issue.  Render using Lightroom is not an acceptable workflow solution for many of us, nor is waiting until some unknown date in the future for a  version of ACR that works.  It doesn't seem to be a big ask for LR4 to work the same as LR3 in combination with the currently released versions of ACR and Photoshop.  Again I have to say its especially disconcerting given its a repeat of the same problem experienced with the release of LR3.  The offered work-arounds are just that, not a solution.

I see that some of the people having a problem are first converting from RAW to DNG.  What happens if you don't convert to DNG, but just edit the RAW file in LR, with ACR 6.7RC installed and open anyway, ignoring the warning?

Just tried the raw NEF and the adjustments didn't show up in PS.  With DNG's sometimes the adjustments transfer to PS, but mostly they don't.

Sorry, but for me it is a "big deal" - I often open a file in CS5 which I don't want to save back as I just need a copy of certain image elements to add to an other image.