Displaying photos in Preview not Photoshop

When I select a photo in Pictures, it displays in Photoshop.

How do I set Pictures so photos will display through Preview and not Photoshop?

Thanks.

Vernon

iMac, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Aug 22, 2009 9:23 AM

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Aug 22, 2009 10:05 AM in response to VRS

VRS wrote:
When I select a photo in Pictures, it displays in Photoshop.

How do I set Pictures so photos will display through Preview and not Photoshop?

Thanks.

Vernon


Vernon,

When you save a file with Photoshop it often (but not always) changes the opening application to itself. To have it revert back to Preview click on the file icon, select Get Info from the Finder's File menu (or enter command-I), and under "Open with" click on the button and select Preview.app. Close the Get-Info window, and now double-clicking the file will open it with Preview.

Drake

Aug 22, 2009 12:34 PM in response to VRS

Vernon,

I don't know of a batch way to do it (Photoshop does batch conversion, but it won't handle this problem).

For the future, however, I have found that if I bring a jpg file into Photoshop for editing, and make any edits which produce layers then when it is saved it will be stamped with Photoshop as the creater application. The solution is to flatten the image in Photoshop before saving it. Select Layer==>Flatten Image to do this. The resulting file will not be stamped as a Photoshop file, and should open with Preview (assuming you have set that as the default standard for files with jpg as the extension). Of course, you give up the option to do editing on layers when you flatten the image.

If you decide to save a file using SAVE AS it also makes it a Photoshop file. To avoid this, make a copy of the file with the Finder to keep the current version and use Photoshop to save the original after you have made the edits. This avoids using SAVE AS.

There may be a better way around this problem. If so, I hope someone posts it.

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