Photoshop Elements /
Open With
When you double click on a photograph file, your computer is
set to automatically use a certain program to open the file.
For example, if you're a Windows computer user, the photograph
will probably open with the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer.
If you use a Mac computer, photograph files often open with Preview
or iPhoto.
Would you like to click a JPEG file and have it open with Photoshop
Elements instead?
1) Open iPhoto.
2) Go to the iPhoto menu.
3) Go to Preferences.
4) Click the General tab.
5) Set Edit Photo in to In application.
6) Select Photoshop Elements.
You can also leave iPhoto as the default editor, but can go to
Photoshop Elements with a right click on a contextual menu.
Do the following.
1) Open iPhoto.
2) Go to the iPhoto menu.
3) Go to Preferences.
4) Click the General tab.
5) Set the Edit Photo in option to In application.
6) Select Photoshop Elements.
7) Close the window.
2) Go to the iPhoto menu.
3) Go to Preferences.
4) Click the General tab.
5) Set the Edit Photo in option to In main window, In separate
window, or Using full screen.
You set iPhoto to use Photoshop Elements as the default editor.
Then, you switched back to using iPhoto as the default editor.
Now, iPhoto will remember that Photoshop Elements is the external
editor.
To use Photoshop Elements, do the following.
1) Right click the photograph file and click Edit in external
editor.
If your mouse only has one button, press Ctrl, hold, and click.
Do the following.
1) Right click a JPEG file.
2) Click Open With.
3) Click Choose Program.
4) In the the Open With window, do the following.
• Select Photoshop Elements.
• Select Always use the selected program to open this kind of
file.
Do the following.
1) Open Picasa.
2) Right click a thumbnail.
3) Click Locate on Disk.
Picasa takes you to the photograph file.
The photograph file is selected (highlighted in blue).
4) Click Open With.
5) Click Choose Program.
6) In the the Open With window, do the following.
• Select Photoshop Elements.
• Select Always use the selected program to open this kind of
file.
Do the following.
1) Go to File > Open, or press Cmd + o.
A Finder window will open.
2) Go to File > Get Info, or press Cmd + i.
3) Click the black triangle next to Open With, browse to Photoshop
Elements, and click Add.
4) When the Info window reappears, select Change All under Open
With.
