Export at full quality when dragging and dropping from Photos

Richard you're correct I misspoke. Command Drag on Ventura does nothing. Shift-drag gets a version and option-drag gets the original.

Like Yer_Man said just use Photoshop from within Photos to edit images. Control (right) - click on the image and select the app you want to use under the Edit With menu:

Warning: you can't change the extension of the edited version from that of the original, i.e. if you add text which will change it to a .psd file you must flatten the image so it will be the same as the original file. Otherwise it will be saved and Photos will not know the image has been edited.

If you hold the command key when dragging and dropping you'll get a copy of the original. But why do tat when you can use the external editor function that allows you to round-trip to apps like Photoshop? Or the sharing feature which makes your entire library available to every other app on your Mac?

Yer_Man wrote:

If you hold the command key when dragging and dropping you'll get a copy of the original.

For me (in Monterey) command-drag copies an edited version with a crazy Photos file name, and reduced metadata. Shift-drag copies full resolution edited version with the original file name and with added added metadata. But this seems really inconsistent--I was getting preview-like copies with command-drag, and then it changed. Dragging, I think, is sometimes useful, but unreliable.

Like you, I wouldn't use this for editing a picture that I was keeping in the Photos Library. I drag and drop for pictures in for one-way edits-- like I'm fixing up a picture for messaging, then delete.