Indesign, edit images using GIMP instead of PS

[Phil at Waldport Tech]

I've been all around the Inet on this. The answer seems pretty standard: it's an OS thing, set the default handler for the file ext. OK, I did that. Only Indesign still insists that I have to install PS to edit the image. 

I am double clicking on an image in one of the clip libraries, and it says Install PS. If I use the edit menu and go to edit with and pick GIMP, it *still* pops up a dlg saying I must install PS. 

Placing an image from the library into a new document and alt-d-click on inserted image produces the same result. 

Running on Windows 10, i9 processor, with Indesign 19.1 x64. 

I haven't seen this scenario described anywhere else. 

Any suggestions?

Thanks

-- Phil

[Phil at Waldport Tech]

Further Data: I installed Photoshop... and it STILL says I must install Photoshop to edit this image. So, clearly something is VERY WRONG here. 

Summarizing: I can't double click an image in CC Library or on the document to edit it. Comes up saying "must install Photoshop." Photoshop has been installed, still says so. I don't really want to  learn PS at this time, got enough going on learning InDesign. I don't need the editing feature that badly, but it would save a lot of time, which (saving time) is why I'm moving to InDesign in the first place. A professional program rather than the amateur stuff from Microsoft. 

I am open to all suggestions here! Help!!

[rob day]

Hi @Phil at Waldport Tech , Have you tried opening your Links panel (Window>Links), selecting the link you want to edit, and choosing Edit With from the panel‘s flyout menu?

[Phil at Waldport Tech]

Yes, I have tried that. Edit With, edit original. doesn't matter. Doesn't *seem* to matter what I do. InDesign refuses to play this game. BTW: I have installed Photoshop, at least by way of further diagnosing the problem, and it still says I must install Photoshop to edit this "item." Whether I d-click on something in the CC library, or in a document, or off of the links fly-out... 

I went into Windows default apps, and into right click on an image in file explorer and choose a "new default" program for all image types. So, editing an image from file explorer brings up what I want it to (PS at the moment), but not from InDesign.

So, I'm out of ideas. 

Any further suggestions?

[rob day]

Can you share the gimp file?

[Phil at Waldport Tech]

What GIMP file? All I want to see happen is double click an image in the ID CC library and have it successfully transferred to an image editor.  Any image editor. That is not happening. There is no GIMP file, the document I'm using to practice with ID and test this and other things was created in ID

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

In this case, the Edit function is inextricably linked to Photoshop and not assignable to any other app, Adobe or otherwise.

And the same limitation is true: if you drag a pasted image from ID into the library, it is not editable even with PS. Only a file represented by a separate source file is... and only by Photoshop, which is not inexplicable from within the depths of the Adobe environment.

You are encountering a very common problem of those who choose to use "free" tools instead of industry-standard ones: they work, sure. They're free, sure. But they are pretty much limited to encapsulated, lower-level, amateur work.

[rob day]

Then can you drag the CCLibrary asset onto an InDesign page and show a screen capture of your Links folder with the link selected and the Path showing—something like this:

[Mike Witherell]

Have you tried setting filetype associations in Adobe Bridge?

[Peter Spier]

I've had another thought...

You say you reinstalled InDesign and Photoshop. Did you install the CC Desktop App first and use it to install the others? That's the correct install method, and failure to do that can make for all kinds of problems.