The reason for this is because I uninstalled CS2 after installing CS3 and it removed an important registry entry. In order to fix Lightroom, all you need to do is restore the value that tells windows applications how to find the Photoshop executable.
The (kind-of) Hard Way:
In the screenshot above, you can see the value that we need to replace. You can follow these steps to recreate the value, or skip down to the bottom where I've provided a simple export file that will do this for you. Keep in mind that editing the registry can be dangerous; you may want to just use the file below if you're out of your league...
- Click Start and select Run
- Type regedit and hit Enter
- In the RegEdit window that pops up, navigate to the following Key:
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths
- Next, right click and create a new Key called photoshop.exe
- Now, with the photoshop.exe key selected, right click on the right-hand side and create a new String Value.
- Name the new string Path and paste the path to your Photoshop install into the Value section. The default value is:
- C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS3
The Easy Way:
I've created a Registry Export that will do this for you automatically. Download this file and save it to your desktop. Then just double-click the fix_PSCS3_path.reg file and say "Yes" when prompted to import the data into your registry.
18 comments:
Thank you! It doesn't look the way it used to, but at least it found Photoshop!
Cheers,
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I'm also having problems going from Lightroom to CS3. For me, it gives a message saying it could not prepare the file for editing in Photoshop.
A quick visit to Google indicates that this is caused by either use of the beta version (which I'm not) or having the original images on a read-only disk. (Again, they aren't) My problem must be caused by something else.
The drive where the images are stored is writable and CS3 is installed, working and shown in the preferences dialog. I can open the images with Bridge without any issues.
Thanks for any help.
Stephen - no chance you're out of disk space, is there? -RRD
Not unless Lightroom needs more than 20GB to prepare a picture.
Thanks!!!
Excellent work Ryan. Thanks.
I uninstalled CS2 as well and voila ... Lightroom no workie. Thanks for your fix ... this saves me a lot of trouble!
Thanks so much for this fix, Ryan. I had exactly the same issue and after all of the trouble I went to trying to fix it, I was able to resolve it in a double-click.
Thank you! Just d/l'ed Lightroom, had this same problem, Googled for an answer and your's was the first I tried and it worked like a charm!
O Thank you! I never thought I'd find the fix for this.
It works!
Brother, you rock! Thank you.
Thanks! I thought I had screwed up by putting CS3 on before I took off CS2, but you solved the problem!
Got to love the net. Typed in 'lightroom photoshop not found' into google and yours was first on the list. Problem solved.
Cheers mate. Adrian.
Thanx dude
Thank you very much I was pulling my hair out on this as I also uninstalled CS2 after installing CS3. Easy registry edit and voilà :-)
One question though I wonder what else has also been deleted by uninstalling CS2 after installing CS3 ? I wonder whether a more thorough, though longer, fix would be to uninstall CS3 and reinstall it then it should I would think rewrite all the correct registry entries .. well possibly ?? Anyone???
Great job man. Like others above I searched for "Phtoshop not found Lightroom" and this page was the first on the list. Your quick fix file worked great. Thanks so much.
Thank you, thank you! I'm using CS2 and was afraid it wouldn't work because of my version. But by just changing the value path to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS2 it worked great!! I just had to restart Lightroom 2.0 and there it was. Thank you for your generosity.
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