Open RAWs from iPhoto in External Editor

I finally got my Adobe Photoshop Elements for Mac and of course jumped right into iPhoto to try and open an image in the great Camera Raw converter.

First thing to do was to go into iPhoto preferences “General” and set Photoshop Elements as the external editor program. Nice and easy. I then tried to open my photos in external editor and sure enough, photoshop elements opened up, … with the JPEG image :-(

Here is the tip: You need to set the “Use RAW when using external editor” inside iPhoto preferences “Advanced”. Like this pictures shows:

Only thing I need now, is to find out how to make iPhoto notice the edits in Photoshop Elements when I come back. Anyone know how to do that?

May 14, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Photography, Tools

2 Responses

  1. Morten - May 15, 2009

    The RAW file is opened from the IPhoto Library/Originals/2009//IMG.CR2. If you save the .JPG file to IPhoto Library/Modified/2009//IMG.JPG IPhoto will detect the change.

    Maybe you could use Automater to perform the editing task?

  2. polesen - May 15, 2009

    Cool. Just tried. Works! Thanks.

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