Drag photos directly into Photoshop

Use the media browser in the Open command in Photoshop.

1. That was never the way to do it anyway. In iPhoto for non-destructive processing you should have use the external editing feature. That said, you can search the Media Bowers, view all your Moments and album, and indeed places - pretty much every way you can search the Photos library you can also do in the Media Browser.

For feature requests and feedback: http://www.apple.com/feedback/photos.html

Create an album titled To Be Edited and put the photos in there. Then look for that album in the Media browser. You do know that after editing you'll have to save the edited version to the Desktop and import as a new, separate image file.

It takes a long time for the photos to be visible in the browser and therefore it is very frustrating to do it this way. I was dragging photos to photoshop to work on scrapbook layouts, not editing the photos themselves. I am sure many other people are equally annoyed to have lost this feature.

I'm not here to argue with you, simply making suggestions. Use the feedback link.

Another thing that bothers me with the new Photos, is that every time i plug my phone in, it opens Photos, which is a little annoying, but I can live with that

Make sure this checkbox is unchecked in Photos with your iPhone plugged in:

There's a workaround - share the photo via mail, then when the new mail window appears, drag the photo from that to Photoshop. Then you can close the new mail window.

I see there are several superusers that have thoughtfully offered some factual multistep workaround methods of doing something somewhat similar to this simple task, but really these are not at all the same as being able to grab a photo in the now default photos app on my Mac, drag it onto the photoshop icon, (thereby launch the app and have my photo right there ready to edit), bang, done. Any other way is frankly absurd, having been able to use it this way previously. I use photos and photoshop consistently for professional work, but sometimes I just want to drag and drop a personal photo taken with my iPhone to use the interface in photoshop which I like and am familiar with, and do something fun.

Grab, Drag, Done!

See Apple, how easy it used to be. Why would ANYONE frick that up? I just "upgraded" and am baffled.

See Apple, how easy it used to be.

As you know from the sign up process for these forums Apple isn't here - only other users like yourself. If you want to complain to Apple do so via https://www.apple.com/feedback/photos.html.

You've been offered workarounds until the 3rd party application developers get on the ball and provide the plugins needed to use their apps with Photos and Yosemite. It's not like Apple dropped the new architecture on them overnight. They've been in the beta loop as long as the loop existed.

So complain to Adobe to get their act together and provide the plugins and updated apps. They've had adequate time to do so.

While you're doing that also ask why they went from a one time purchase app to a monthly rent-an-app model. Just another way to drain our wallets.

Thanks old toad - oh I did! Believe me. And I can't help but think they lurk on some of these forums or at least need to hear from ppl additionally irritated when a lot of comments can reach the same consensus. As I mentioned, it's appreciated that some workarounds were offered. I have never commented before this in the user forums, and in fact this caused my second ever comment in apple feedback, both about loss of functionality. It's a drag. And I do hope the appropriate Apple ppl have a googlenews bot that tells them when a relevant comment is made on forums, if not that is too bad! Thanks for your proactive comment though; I'm only able to gripe, admittedly.

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I know exactly what you mean. This was a daily workflow action for me and I'm a little surprised that this is the way Photos is working. I am hopeful that this is something that it not intentional. It did cross my mind that perhaps Apple is wanting us to edit images using the Photos app... Which we all know, is only useful for very simple edits. If I figure out a way to do it the "good" way, I'll report back. Cheers.

I am also totally blown away that this drag and drop feature from Photos directly to the Photoshop icon is gone, totally blown away. I've been doing it that way for years!

How stupid can Apple be?

Old System>Upgrade

I am always amazed at how I expect a brand new Operating System to be an improvement, when it always turns out to be a step backwards. And this is a LARGE step backward.

And hovering over your album in Photos no longer gives you a sliding preview of the images inside album. Well done Apple.

It's not gone from Photos as it was never in Photos. It was in iPhoto, but it was never the way to do it as what drag and drop yielded varied from version to version. The External Editor or the Media Browser features provided reliable and predictable results. You also mention another iPhoto feature missing from Photos, though hovering over an albums showed nothing, I imagine you're talking bout the feature that allowed you to preview Events (not Albums, not the same thing), and somehow these reflect a "large step backward" for the Operating System? You do realise there is a difference between an application that runs on an OS and the actual OS, right? No?