Edits from Elements not showing in Lightroom catalog

[kristink83877744]

I want to edit some pictures that are in my Lightroom catalog in Elements. While in lightroom I am choosing to edit a copy in Elements 18. After I make my edits in Elements I choose save (not save as). When I close Elements and go back to lightroom I see that there is a copy of the photo there, but my edits are not showing up. I finally found that all of my edited pictures are being saved in my pictures folder (in the correct folder) but not in my lightroom catalog. What setting do I have incorrect? Thank you in advance.

[99jon · Accepted solution]

Elements behaves a bit differently to Photoshop CC.

-After editing in PSE, press Ctrl + W

-In Save Changes - click Yes

-In the Save As dialog box click on the Save button (don’t touch the file name which may have Edit appended)

-When you see a message that this file already exists, click Yes – this will overwrite the LR rendered export and update the Library grid.

It’s also worth checking preferences (external editing tab) to ensure you are rendering an 8 bit PSD or tiff file. The Elements editor has limited functionality with 16 bit images.