Windows send to, specific photoshop file

[siomosp]

Hello!

it is possible at windows explorer, select an image file , right click (context menu), send to specific photoshop psd?

[Mylenium]

Nope. Windows doesn't know these things. You would have to manually create those menu handlers either by directly adding the entries in your Registry or using respective customization tools. That may work for a handful of PSDs, but the context menu will otherwise quickly become too long and unwieldy to even use it. If you need that kind of automation, it may be simpler to look into scripting and fetching files via Bridge into PS.

Mylenium

[JJMack]

Sent a File to Photoshop Yes Sent a file to a Photoshop PSD No.

You can add a Photoshop shortcut  to your  SentTo folder "C:\Users\(your user Id)\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo"  If you want to. In cast the file association is not Photoshop.  However the Right Click Open With list will most likely have Photoshop in the list you would not need to add it to your SentTo folder.   Each Window User ID can have their own SendTo list

You may be able to create an automated process that would opens photoshop an run a script that can place a passed File into your specific photoshop PSD.  So you could send the file to that automated process from your SendTo shortcut.  The shortcut could be a bat file that set the  Past file into a system variable and then starts Photoshop  passing it  your Photoshop script that would open your specific photoshop PSD and Place in the files that is set in the system variable. Save the PSD then exits leaving Photoshop open and the PSD with the placed in file open in Photoshop.

Your Photoshop Script would also need some logic in it to know which specific photoshop PSD  the current passed file should be placed in.

[siomosp]

Hello,

thank you for replying and your suggestions

Finaly I done it realy fast using autohotkeys and a photoshop action.

[Kukurykus]

If you don't mind share your .ahk script and action structure.

[siomosp]

Hi, 

ahk script was not an elegand solution

ahk solution is not elegant and depents of the position of explorer context menu , so i abandoded it

My final solutions is a script

// Original script from https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator-discussions/is-there-any-possible-way-to-open-an-application-from-illustrator-using-javascript/m-p/9799194#M91997
// Open current illustrator file → photoshop
#target Illustrator
var newPathAndname =app.activeDocument.path+"/"+app.activeDocument.name;
var psfile = new File(newPathAndname);
if (psfile.exists) { photoshop.open(psfile); }
else { alert('file does not exist');}

Hope it helps!

[Kukurykus]

If you'd have said you need to open files in Photoshop from Illustrator I would suggest to do it with BridgeTalk method. Fortunatelly you found something easier I had no idea that exists, as I don't use Illustrator. It seems there is in-built photoshop function, which you can use to that, to what you can do also with mentioned BridgeTalk. I assume it's wrote into StartupScript file for Illustrator. The default Startup Script for Photoshop doesn't have it.