Drag & Drop from Photos to Photoshop resizes down to 1024 x 768?

I (finally) updated from iPhoto to Photos and one of the functions I had been using in iPhotos as keeping an archive of texture files I use when I do digital painting. I used to just drag an image from iPhoto into Photoshop and it would transfer it full size, which is great because I could work with it in my paintings.


Using Photos though, it seems that functionality has changed to where it exports out a tiny 1024 x 768 version of that image, which isn't working for me. I know I could export to desktop at original size but to be perfectly honest it's a tedious work around. Is there a way to streamline it back to how it worked with iPhoto, where I could just drag and drop an image from Photos over my Photoshop icon in my dock and import at full resolution? Thanks in advance!

iMac 21.5", macOS 10.13

Posted on Apr 17, 2020 3:33 AM

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Apr 17, 2020 6:52 AM in response to AaronN

Drag and drop only ever got you a preview, not the original file.


Go to the App Store and buy External Editors for Photos - it's a very inexpensive little add-on.

Install it.

Open the image you want to send to Pshop in Photos. Click on Edit and then the wee button with the three dots in it

There select External Editors and it will show you all the possible apps on your Mac. Select Photoshop.

Apr 17, 2020 1:30 PM in response to Yer_Man

I don't know if what I got was the 'original' file but it was the original size, at least, 4032 x 3024. I'll check out the add-on but found a temporary 'fix' late last night I guess. If I right click on the thumbnail and go to "Edit With", I can navigate to the Photoshop that I'm currently using. Then after that I can highlight thumbnails and hit Command-Return to open them all in Photoshop (last used app).

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