Trouble w:/ Mac / with PS v. 24.5.0 on iMac & OSX 24.5.0 Ventura v. 13.4

[Jack]

'Right-clicking an image using 'Open with' does not work correctly.

Double-clicking the image results in only a static display in the 'Preview' app on my iMac. I cannot edit ithe image within Photoshop.

Any ideas appreciated.

[thegraphicgroove]

Usually you would right click, choose "Open With" and if Photoshop does not show up on the list you would choose "Other" at the bottom of the list ... and then you should be able to scroll or 'navigate' to Photoshop within that "Other" list of choices ... and there should be a checkbox that says "Always Open With" that you can "check" if you always like that file type to open in Photoshop instead of the default "Preview".

If for some reason that isn't working, you can open a new Photoshop file ... choose the same dimensions as the image you are trying to open, and you can simply drag and drop the image into Photoshop from your desktop or from whatever file folder the image is in.  Hope this helps 🙂

[gener7]

<deleted> Wrong placement.

[Jack]

Y., darag & drop works. but no list of apps appears; theimage onlu shows up in muy 'Preview' app.

Dragging U& dropping into the PS iton does, however, work fine. I guess I can workwith that system while in GA; will see what hapens uapon return to FL in ~6 mo.

Tks, jwc

[TheDigitalDog]

What thegraphicgroove said if you MUST use right click using Open. 

You could drag and drop any supported documents onto the Photoshop icon (dock or otherwise), and it would open correctly as well. 

[gener7 · Accepted solution]

MacOS does not have a "Always Open with" checkbox when setting file associations. That's Windows.

To set it up for the Mac, select (not open) a Ps file, then use the Cmd i keyboard shortcut to bring up the Info dialog.

Go down to the "Open with" section and choose Photoshop 2023.app from the dropdown menu if Preview is selected.

That  will only change the association for that one file. Click the "Change all" button to open all Photoshop files with Photoshop 2023.

Then if you choose to right or Ctrl-click on a a file Photoshop 2023 will be the default. I don't use that option unless I want a different program on the list to open a PSD. Even then it's "one time" until I change the default. Just double-click the Photoshop file to open the file and launch Photoshop. Same cmd i change goes for any graphic filetype (jpeg, png, psb, tif and gif) you want to open by default in Photoshop.

[thegraphicgroove]

Mac OS definitely DOES have a check box for "Always Open With".  I am looking at it right now on my M1 MacBook Pro, running the most recent version of Ventura.  You see it when you right click the image and choose "Open With" then choose "Other" at the bottom of the list of choices ... then you are provided with a folder showing alternative Apps/software choices.  Just below those choices you will see a check box for "Always Open With".

[gener7]

You are right. Even Monterey/Intel has it.

[NB, colourmanagement]

@thegraphicgroove yep, that’s in Catalina too

neil barstow, colourmanagement net - adobe forum volunteer - co-author: 'getting colour right'
google me "neil barstow colourmanagement" for lots of free articles on colour management

[jane-e]

Mac OS definitely DOES have a check box for "Always Open With".  

By @thegraphicgroove

You are correct that there is a checkbox for "always open with", but at the top of the dialog it specifies the current document, not all jpegs.

MacOS has always allowed individual files to always be opened in a specific application in addition to changing the association for all files with that extension. I'm not in my office now and can't try this, so can someone test to see if this has changed or if it works as it has in the past? If all jpegs are set to open in Preview and you change one using this method, do all jpegs change or just the one?

The method from @gener7 with File > Get Info (Cmd+I) will work for all jpegs if this one doesn't.

Jane

[gener7]

Thanks for bringing this  up, Janee.  I checked and "Alway open with" just means that one jpeg file that was right-clicked. The rest use the default Photoshop app I set using Cmd i when double-clicking jpegs for example.

Right-click is a good idea only if you want a certain image file to open in another app. I sometimes use Preview to quickly correct an improperly assigned extension.

[jane-e]

That's what it's always been historically, @gener7 , meaning that your earlier post to use Cmd+I in Finder is correct. Since the OP has not returned to this thread (but has started another), I'll go ahead and mark it.

Jane