Today’s Question: I have installed the beta version of Photoshop so I can explore the new features there. But now when I send an image to Photoshop from Lightroom Classic it is opening in the beta. Is there a way to edit in the non-beta version without uninstalling the beta?
Tim’s Quick Answer: Yes, you can designate which installed version of Photoshop you want to use for editing on the External Editing tab of the Preferences dialog in Lightroom Classic.
More Detail: You can have more than one version of Photoshop installed at a time, including the public beta version if you’d like to test out new features that are still in development. Fortunately, Lightroom Classic includes an option for you to choose which version of Photoshop you’d like to use when using the “Edit In” command to send an image from Lightroom Classic to Photoshop.
To change this setting, first bring up the Preferences dialog in Lightroom Classic by choosing Edit > Preferences on Windows or Lightroom Classic > Preferences on Macintosh. Go to the External Editing tab, and then choose the desired version of Photoshop from the “Photoshop version” popup in the top section. In this case, for example, you could choose “Adobe Photoshop 2025” from the popup instead of “Adobe Photoshop (Beta)”.
Once you’ve changed the setting, anytime you use the Photo > Edit In command to send an image to Photoshop, the version you selected in Preferences will be the version of Photoshop your image is opened in.
