Saving edits from External Editors for Photos back to Photos for Mac not working

There is a filename extension problem with PSE12 as an external editor with Photos.

When I am using PSE 12 from the Photos.app with the External Editors extension, and save the edited photo in Photos, Photoshop Elements will save it with the wrong Filename extension.

edit: The External Editors extension is passing an image file with the extension ".jpeg" to PSE, but PSE is saving the edited photo with the extension ".jpg" and does not replace the original file. This way Photos will not see the edits, after you finish.

When you save the edits, ensure that the filename extension will be ".jpeg".

Here's another take on using PSE from within Photos:

Here's what you need to know about editing with Photoshop, Photoshop Elements or any 3rd party editor from within Photos:

Note: when I refer to the Photoshop file extension, .psd, it can be the file extension that your particular editor of choice uses.

1 - if you create a .psd file from a jpeg original you must save it to the desktop and import as a new file just like with iPhoto.

2 - if a jpeg is edited by PS resulting in a .psd file and it's saved without selecting the Desktop the default location will be here in a folder like this

AND the resulting folder and .psd file will be deleted automatically.

3 - if you flatten the file in PS and save it as a jpeg it will be saved correctly and recognized by Photos.

4 - if the original file is a .psd file and is edited by PS and just saved the resulting edited version will be converted to a jpeg file and recognized by Photos. Also if edited with PS a second time you'll lose the layers and just be editing a jpeg file.

5 - to keep the .psd file so you can do another edit first duplicate it and edit the duplicate file with PS. That will preserve the original .psd file and it's layers for additional edits even though the first edit will be lost to the second edit.

As long as the filename extension you use for "Save" in PSE is the same as the one External Editors created, the External Editors extension will save the file back to Photos.

After editing the photo in PSE, I click "File > Save".

The Save dialog will show the location and name of the file originally passed to Photoshop Elements.

I just have to check the filename field to make sure to pick exactly the same name and extension as the original.

Now should PSE give a warning, that the file exist and ask, if I want to replace it.

I click "Replace", and the External Editor extension will show the modified photo and ask to save the changes. Then the modified photo will appear in Photos.

As long as we are editing JPEGs, It is not necessary to save the edited version to the Desktop and to reimport.

You could also try, if changing the "Saving Files"Preferences in Photoshop Elements will help, Carole.

After I changed the preferences like this - "On First Save save over current file", the saved image did immediately appear in Photos in the External Editors window and the filename extension was preserved:

The original in Photos will be save. The External Editor extension is passing a copy of the current version to Photoshop Elements. If you look at the path in the "Save" dialog in PSE, you'll see, that PSE will be using the copies stored in the user library at ~/Library/Containers/me.bruns.ExternalEditorsForPhotos.PhotoExtension/Data/Docu ments/0F3B201A-3359-4FB4-95BD-7FD1F495EC44/some.jpeg

This is the sandbox, where editing extensions are exchanging the photos with photos. The original master image file in Photos will remain untouched.

it appeared that the edited image could be saved directly back to the Photos file,

and it can IF the external editor works correctly - do it with Preview as the external editor as an example

For some programs that do not operate correctly you have to change your workflow

LN