Can't "open with" using finder ctrl click

Hi-
Sometimes when in the finder and I want to open an image in photoshop instead of preview i can ctrl click and select 'open with'. However, sometimes when I ctrl click on the image, the image is unselected and the only options that come up are the standard finder window options. Sometimes, when I try multiple times it will eventually allow me to "open with" but when I do - it opens up a completely different file than I ctrl clicked on.
Any ideas why I am able to do this on some images and not others? I have noticed this in earlier versions of osx as well.
ps- yes i am ctrl clicking on the image's icon (not next to it or the name)
Thanks!!!

Personally I have never seen this. If you have it on several different machines I would suspect something that you routinely install is causing a problem, perhaps some Contextual Menu item that you use.
Far simpler way to open a file in another application is to simply drag the file onto the application's icon in the Dock. I do that all the time. I often have jpegs set to open in Preview by default, since Photoshop is such a memory hog and takes forever to launch. Rather than change this preference when I actually want to open and work with a file in PS I simply drag it to the PS icon.
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