This is lesson 2 of 10 in Chapter 2 - Opening Images into Photoshop. For the PC version, see Make Photoshop Your Default Image Editor in Windows 10. Note that this tutorial is specifically for Mac users. Since Photoshop is obviously our editor of choice, let's learn how to easily configure Mac OS X so that our images will automatically open for us in Photoshop every time. Instead, it prefers to open them in Apple's own Preview app with its basic and very limited set of image editing features. While there's nothing technically wrong with that, there is one annoying problem Mac OS X, at least by default, ignores Photoshop when we open images directly from within a Finder window. Written by Steve Patterson.Įven though every copy of Photoshop, whether it's a standalone version or part of a Creative Cloud subscription, includes a free and powerful file management program called Adobe Bridge, many Mac users still prefer the Finder for locating and opening their images. Learn how to make Adobe Photoshop your default image viewer and editor for popular file formats like JPEG, PNG and TIFF, as well as Photoshop's own PSD format, in Mac OS X.

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