Using External Editors With the Mac Photos App

[@zigatretjak75]

Thank you very much and tight huggs to Jack, he must have been through a lot! What a good soul he is.

[@willardroad]

Yet another excellent video! Really appreciate the effort you put into this. Small wonder that I decided to become a Patreon supporter earlier this year, because I think you deserve it.

[@macmost]

Thanks for your support!

[@loisskiathitis8926]

A very useful and informative video tutorial today! A cool video today! Thank you, Gary! 👏🏻❤️

[@triciajoaquin6994]

Loved your video. You are always so clear. My problem was when I opened it in PSE it was not longer in Photos. But now I know what questions to ask when I call Apple. Thanks Gary!

[@AlannaBirmingham]

Great information. I'm going to give it a try! Thanks!

[@careydunn8227]

This will save me so much time and effort and space!!!!

[@photoipster]

I always learn from you. I wish photos offered a bit more flexibility on ranking photos beyond favorites…

[@macmost]

Use keyword tags. You can tag then "5 Stars" or "9/10" or Good/Better/Best, etc.

[@dandaman0856]

Great video! Thank you

[@MrsPieAmerican]

Hi Gary! Could you go more into detail on externally editing in photoshop? Where does the psd file go when I save it? Thanks!

[@macmost]

Try it. If you save as a PSD file it goes where you save it. But normally you edit it and it saves right back to Photos, no PSD file is created.

[@DeepakK_59]

Very Useful, Thanx

[@Greg-fg1rd]

Mind Blown!

[@4Climates]

I wish this were possible on Photos on iPad...

[@remo-pro]

I use it often to open a photo in Pixelmator Pro. After I make my edits I have to switch to photos and when it shows my edits, I can save it in Pixelmator Pro. If I just save it, the changes aren’t in the photos app. A strange bug. You forgot a other way: right click on the photo when it is in the library with the other photos

[@MsBootylicious84]

You are super duper awesome.! I’m learning so much on your channel. Thank you for these videos. (Made my life so much easier)

[@pedropuckerstein4670]

This video is quite salient. My primary editor is affinity photo, but Pixelmator pro has some better features, an I use Luminar Neo. I wish affinity photo had plugins for Pixelmator pro and Luminar Neo. Put Neo to the side (since it is an overpriced hack), exchanging images between Pixelmator pro and affinity photo is a pain. I will try using photos app as the intermediary for editing a image with both apps. Thank you !!!

[@harryhellerman474]

This is great!

[@desertpatient]

Thanks bunches

[@stevepex]

Great video! I've been playing with this myself for a bit. Do you know what happens if you use raw to edit, does it stay as raw?

[@ernestkooistra1559]

TY

[@BeeboHamido]

Does Adobe Creative Cloud apps have any extensions?

[@zoulhhh]

With Affinity Photo 2 it doesn't work to save the changes in Apples Photos-App as long as the image is still open in Affinity. Weird Apple or Affinity bug.

[@RandeepWadehra]

Hi! I have purchased MacBook Pro 16 M2 Max a couple of days back. I am unable to locate the Edit button in the Photos App. Have they discontinued the edit feature in 2023? Do reply. Best regards

[@macmost]

Definitely not. View a single photo and you should see it at the top right.

[@osama966x]

Hi, do you have a plugin that helps to reduce video size in Photos without loosing the meta data by exporting it outside Photos?

[@macmost]

I don't know of anything that would do that.

[@Larry77777]

Hey Gary: Seashore (free, which you show here and in past) used within Photos I find perfect for pasting jpg's onto jpg's. That's something Photos alone doesn't offer.

[@mariacrd19]

How can I print a picture on both side of the paper or photo paper want to do a party centerpiece for my granddaughter

[@macmost]

If your printer supports two-sided printing, you'll need to refer to its documentation to find out how. Otherwise, you just have to print on one side, and then reuse that piece of paper to feed into the printer to print on the other side.

[@grahamf695]

Very useful, thanks Gary. I have the DXO Photolab 5 editor. It appears under "Edit With" but not as an editing extension. I am running MacOS Catalina 15.7, as my Mac is too old to run later versions. Is there any way I can add it to the list of editing extensions?

[@macmost]

No, that's something the developer has to build. They have to add actual functionality to the app to handle it.

[@grahamf695]

@@macmost Hi Gary, thanks very much for clarifying.

[@Jimgoodwin846]

Does Jack have a missing eye? My kids have a golden retriever rescue dog with missing eye…the sweetest dog!

[@macmost]

No, I just taught him to wink when I take a picture 😆 Just kidding. Yes, he was born with only one. Doesn't miss it at all. Does your golden sometimes move his head slightly from side to side to judge distances? Jack does that.

[@Jimgoodwin846]

@@macmost I’ll have to ask my kids. Taught him to wink…cracks me up.😂

[@LouRao]

Great idea. But, why would anyone want to edit in two apps? Just open the one app that provides most of the editing features. nothing more or less. One app.

[@macmost]

Probably most people do. But I may use Pixelmator for most things, then want to use Photoshop here and there for something only Photoshop can do.

[@MJHiteshew]

Because you can use Photos as your organizing and tagging/sorting library. You can do all your edits in Photos without having to leave Photos, open/import an image into another app, export it out and add the edited version back into Photos. Photos allows for "round-tripping" with other editing apps. Plus it’s easy to create versions.