Lightroom 3.2, Photoshop CS4 and Lens Corrections

[PBC]

I have hit a snag with my workflow when printing; which I think is due to still using CS4, but as I can't afford to upgrade just for soft-proofing I wonder if there is a way around this?

Problem is: when I want to print, I edit the image in CS4 and soft-proof the image, adding a curve, etc. as required and then save back down to Lightroom.  Back in Lightroom, I then rename the image to include the profile and paper and then print this as required.  Now, if I have used Lens Correction in LR (which is about 90% of the time) for my Nikon 16-35 (profile added in LR 3.2), when the TIF comes back from CS4 the lens correction has been removed

If I go to reapply it in LR, the profile for my lens is no longer listed.

My thinking is this is due to not using Camera Raw 6.2, but to use this I need CS5.

Anyone know a way of fixing this as it is basically breaking the soft-proofing part of my workflow?   The only thing I feel I can do now (without manually correcting the lens distortion each time) is to stop soft-proofing the image and print from LR (using the "by luck it will print right" approach).

Appreciate any help

Phil

[pegelli]

Don't think you can do this with CS5 either, but since I use only CS2 I can't be sure.

Way around it (how I would handle this with CS2) would be to import in lightroom, apply the lens profile and then export a tiff to CS4 and do the rest of the editing/soft proofing there before you bring it back.
That way the profile is "baked in" from the start.

[Schewe]

Anyone know a way of fixing this as it is basically breaking the soft-proofing part of my workflow?   The only thing I feel I can do now (without manually correcting the lens distortion each time) is to stop soft-proofing the image and print from LR (using the "by luck it will print right" approach).

If you are using Photoshop CS4, you will need to choose the option to render the raw file using Lightroom before opening the image into Photoshop. That will apply the lens corrections...the only issue is that at the moment with LR 3.2, if you have Photoshop CS4 as the default editor, you don't get the dialog, it simply opens without giving you the option (that's a bug). So, add Photoshop CS4 as a second editing application and choose the secondary Photoshop CS4. That should give you the dialog giving you the option to open with Lightroom adjustments applied...pretty sure Adobe is aware of the "bug" and will fix it for earlier Photoshop users in the next dot release.

[PBC]

Yes that works thank you; at least I can carry on with my soft-proofing in CS4 until LR4 comes out with soft-proofing

Phil

[solardarkroom.com]

I was interested to try 3.3RC just confirm the render option was working with CS4(CameraRaw5.7). The first picture I opened gave me the dialog to choose and I intentionally did not choose the "don't show me again" option. After closing that picture I no longer see the render dialog. The old work-around with the Additional External Editor continues to work so no big deal. I wonder if anyone else has experienced this? I'm on a MacPro/10.6.4.