hello Erick
Not all-knowing, but I just tried an experiment
and it works the same in Canvas and PhotoLine as
you experienced with Photoshop.
It seems that the logic of the Mac is that if you
make changes in a file then save it, it is not
the same file although it is the same name, so it
reverts to the default which you have left set,
in this case, as Preview.
My I suggest two alternative work flows?
1) Change he default for opening all JPEGs to
Photoshop. When you want a quick look at a
picture rather than launching Photoshop, click on
the icon in the finder with the right button and
go to "Quick Look" in the right button contextual
menu. If you want to keep a number of pictures
open at the same time, just select all the icons
and drag them to the Preview icon.
2) Store all your pictures in iPhoto. Use iPhoto
Buddy to allow you to have a number of different
iPhoto libraries. In your case, you would set up
one library named "The Seekers" and keep all your
Seekers pictures in it. Always use iBuddy to
allow you to select the library you want to open
and thus to launch iPhoto. in the iPhoto
preferences, select Photoshop as the external
editor. Then do your quick reviewing of pictures
in iPhoto and your editing in Photoshop, saving
back into iPhoto or saving out to another place
if you like. You can also zoom photos for editing
in iPhoto using the right button menu. (It is
desirable to avoid editing in iPhoto as it
applies rather savage lossy compression each time
you edit and save and you have no control over
it, so it is best to edit in an external program
and save without loss back into iPhoto.)
In fact, I use the workflow described in 2) (but
substituting PhotoLine for Photoshop) for 80% of
my pix editing nowadays and it works very well.
In iPhoto, I have several viewing choices; I can
look at the minimum sized thumbnails or mak them
all bigger with the size slider. I can look t
each one zoomed to the max or I can look t a
whole series as a slide show. Very handy. For the
other 20%, I leave Preview set as the default
viewer but when desired, drag photos on to the
Canvas or PhotoLine icons to launch and open the
pix for work, or I open pix from within the
programs. I slso drag photos from iPhoto on to
the anvas icon if I want to use them in that
program.
Kind regards
Geoffrey Heard
Business & Environment Writer, Editor, Publisher
The Worsley Press
>Hello All-knowing.:-)
>
>I have just finished editing more than 200 JPEG
>files for use with my music catalogs. They are
>located in 3 folders - each folder belonging to
>a single artist... - Later these pictures will
>be inserted into NWP documents along with album
>titles and album content, track lists,
>informaton etc.etc..
>
>As default these JPEG files are all associated
>to be opened by Preview. So to avoid to drag
>each file at a time onto the Photoshop CS2 icon,
>I just select all, use 'Get Info' and change the
>opener to Photoshop CS2. - I donot click the
>'Change All' button, because I still want
>Preview to be able to open other JPEG files for
>just a faster view...
>
>All files in a folder now show correct Adobe icon.
>
>I now just double-click each file and it opens
>fine in PhS CS2, - I make my changes like
>resizing, changing contrast/brightness, maybe
>change the color balances etc.etc.... Now save
>each file and they all get the correct thumb
>icon...
>
>If I now double-click the finished JPEG file
>it's again Preview that opens the file - the
>association to Photoshop is complete gone -
>except on GIF and BMP files.
>
>I've tried it on both my MacPro with CS2 and my
>PowerBook G4/1,67ghz with CS1 - same behavior.
>Both are running 10.5.8.
>
>If I don't edit anything but just close folders
>and fx. also make a reboot, they still have the
>associated Photoshop icon when I open the
>folders again.
>
>what's going on?
>
>Cheers, Erik Richard
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