I can't export to external editor to edit

I recently upgraded to Snow Leopard and noticed that "Edit in External Editor" option is grayed out in iPhoto. I remember setting it up to edit in Photoshop. What do I need to do to be able to set it up to direct iPhoto to Photoshop as my external editor?

in the iPhoto preferences set the edit in to external editor - to change it simply do it again - and once you set PS as the external editor you can change the edit in back to main window and when you right click on a photo you get a menu allowing you to choose PS
LN

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My daughter has cortical visual impairment and we are trying to modify photos so that she can get more out of them. Just about everything we need to do can be done in one program like photoshop but it can be tedious and if you know anything about caring for a disabled child then you know that we simply don't have enough time and when we do have a few minutes we're exhausted.
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I'm reluctant to try seting up an applescript/automator/workflow solution myself because I've tried those in the past and it just seems like Apple has more good intentions than follow through in that department, other users always seem to find a way to break them.

As someone who parents a profoundly disabled daughter (see: http://www.rettsyndrome.ie) who just turned 12, you have all my sympathy. That said, there is no way to set up multiple editors in iPhoto. It can only use one at a time.
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Can't change external editor. Why?

I use iPhoto 6.0.3. I have Photoshop installed and was using it as the external editor in iPhoto. I've not bought and installed Photoshop Elements 4 and installed it.
If I Control click on a photo in iPhoto, the only option I still have is Photoshop. You would think I would have the two options to select to edit it but, I can't see anyway to change it to Elements or use Elements.
iPhoto won't let me change external editors.
Any help appreciated.

I think you can only specify one external editor. It's selected in the iPhoto 'preferences' pane on the General tab. Revisit that window and pick the 'edit photo' chooser. When you pick the Photoshop entry it will allow you to select a different application (PSE4) as the alternate editor. Then you can go back and select the default way to edit and control-click ought to give you what you want.

Intensify as external editor: how, and how well, does it work?

Intensify from developer macphun I have assigned as an image editor in iPhoto Preferences/Advanced. In iPhoto when i click on Edit the image opens in Intensity and can be edited. Unfortunately, saving after editing the image presents a standard file dialog offering to save the edited image in Documents. Getting the edited image back into iPhoto requires importing. Afterwards other data, such as Places, Faces and notes, are gone, although the original unedited photo remains in iPhoto and still has the data.
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Terrence,
Thanks for the comments. I appreciate the help. Sounds like you have considerable expertise in what I need to learn. Some of what you said I do not understand. If you could clarify these points it would help me more.
You say "No it's not like this with any editor used as an external editor in iPhoto." I assume you mean an external editor would edit the photo while the photo remains within the iPhoto database, so export to edit followed by import to return the edited photo to iPhoto would not be needed. Is this correct?
You say "... Intensify isn't an editor, it's a non-destructive database-based application." In my very limited reading and experience, it seems Intensity modifies single image files. How is an application intended to modify image files to change their appearance not an editor? How is an application intended to work with single files a database-based application?
While posting here I also asked MacPhun support a similar question. They replied "This editing procedure is fine, you can send the edited image from Intensify to iPhoto as shown at the screenshot attached."
The menu choice shown does allow saving in iPhoto after pressing in Intensity. However, the edited image imported into iPhoto has lost metadata such as found faces, places and comments associated with the original, and it is placed in a new Event. That MacPhun support refers to the product of what Intensity does as "the edited image" shows why I referred to Intensity as an image editor.
You say "In essence, you cannot use a non-destructive processor as an editor" yet "With Aperture I have used it as a plug-in." To me this sounds like one can use Intensity as a non-destructive processor if Intensity's function is accessed as a plug-in. That is, the necessity to export images from iPhoto to "process" (what I would call edit) them in Intensity results from how Intensity and iPhoto access the image files, not from the type of processing involved.
You say "This has nothing to do with services ..." Agreed. I mentioned services because I thought one application modifying data for another seemed like a service.
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Open with External Editor

Hi
When I try to Export to External Editor (to Photoshop) the opened image is 95Mb. These are originally raw images from a Canon EOS 1Ds Mk11 which open in Photoshop as 45Mb.
Anyone know why the images are opening as twice the size but dimensions and dpi are the same?
Regards
Doug Hall
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It might be true that if you use external editor and send 16 bit file and return 8 bit it creates some problem, I do not agree on the general statement.
Canon raw (I shoot Nikon but that is beside the point) files are really 12 bit color but is called 16 bits and once in PS, it remains 16 bits. The original question is apples-to-apples comparison. both images are supposed to be 16 bits. So the question is why is the file bigger in one instance than another. The only thing I can think of is that the file size may differ because PS will process raw file as PSD and Ap sends the file as TIF. I often find that PS saved TIF, JPEG files are smaller than from other apps for the same image.
I don't think anyone is suggesting that one converts the file from 16 bit to 8 in the external editor.
Cheers

16bt files with external editor

Am I missing something very obvious?
No matter what I do, I am unable to export to external editor (photoshop) and have them open as 16bt files. They always open as 8bt.
What am I doing wrong?

No, you are right. My nice 16 bit file goes to 8 bits
when opened in the external editor. Needs to be fixed.
Needs to be fixed and we should not be forced into Adobe RGB (1998)! What if the scene gamut exceeds this? I can’t get ProPhoto? Or the scene gamut is much smaller but I want 16-bit sRGB?
Is there any logic in how Aperture is providing this encoding? Again, I suspected it was based on the EXIF data the camera writes to the RAW file based on the matrix. I’m lazy but should set my Canon to sRGB, shoot RAW and see what Aperture thinks it should use. But that doesn’t matter because having only sRGB or Adobe RGB (1998) doesn’t cut it.
Why not allow us to setup as we do with Export how we want the Open with External Editor to handle all this?
From a color management perspective, this application is hopeless lame. Hard to believe it’s from the company that started the ICC and introduced ColorSync. We can’t control the rendering intent for output color spaces. The Histogram doesn’t tell us squat about the rendered image and there’s no RGB info palette (that again should tell us the values AFTER we produce a true RGB image. How can they call this a Pro tool?
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Error -50 when using an external editor

Having finally graduated from iPhoto 2, I found some "interesting" behavior in iPhoto '08...
iPhoto objected when I tried to save an externally edited photo back into its slot in iPhoto -- nothing lost, just an error dialog and the edits were not applied. Since it was repeatable, it made me curious.
When you choose external editor to edit a photo in iPhoto 8, the first thing iPhoto does is stash a copy of the original (and activates the "Revert to Original" menu item for that photo). Just editing in iPhoto 8 doesn't do any of this until you accept the changes -- that's an important distinction, because if you change your mind with the external editor (and make no edits, or cancel them without saving), that stashed copy stays in the "modified" folder.
For all practical purposes, it's "forgotten" unless you happen to choose "Revert to Original", in which case, the extra photo is unceremoniously purged. Now, if you don't think about purging that forgotten copy and later decide that you actually do want to edit that photo in an external editor after all, iPhoto will again stash a copy while your external editor is opening. It gets stashed in the same folder that already has the previously stashed (and forgotten) image file. If the file were overwritten, there would be no big problem, but it does not get overwritten, and you can't have two files with the same name in the same folder. So the finder appends a "_1" to the end of the file name -- and THAT sets up the problem. When you finish editing and save the file back to iPhoto, you will be (unintentionally) trying to add a file to your collection that iPhoto doesn't know about. The filename change to avoid a conflict in the folder is not reflected in the iPhoto 8 database.
Older iPhoto versions would have let that pass (and that's why there were always problems with database corruption), but the newer version catches the attempt and simply doesn't allow the save to take place.
That's the "why it happens", but it's only my second day with iPhoto '08 and I'll need a little more time to work out how to selectively fix the problem without damaging the database -- a database rebuild does not purge those stashed photos (and you wouldn't want it to because most of them are the originals for photos that were actually modified).

Brie Fly:
I tried to replicate that using Photoshop and could not. When starting an edit with PS a file is created and remains is I abort the edit in PS. However, if I edit again with PS and save the original modified file is changed with no other file being created.
What 3rd party editor are you using? The only time I get a _1 file is when I move a file to an event that has the same file name as a file already in that event.
What system are you running and are you at iPhoto 7.1.1, iLife Support 8.1.1 and Quicktime 7.3?
Happy Holidays
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
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Hi-
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Greetings helpful Aperture experts,
I've just finished transferring aperture from one computer to a replacement unit. Except for being slow on my previous g5, it worked flawlessly at every level. However, now that I've xferred, I can't open Aperture images with an external editor, nor can I export the images to my desktop. Any help along these lines will be gigantically appreciated.
gaylon

Thanks, ok, here is the info step by step:
When I try to pick any raw image, I am not able to export from Aperture. When I go into the finder and select "show master" then I am able to export from aperture. However, it seems that I am not able to export an image full size. I selected export image to full size jpg to my desktop. Nothing happens except that the window that indicates the image is exporting is open and it says estimated time less than a minute. Yet, there is nothing happening. Additionally, before I transferred Aperture over to my new g5, I could right click an image and had the option to open an image with external editor. Now, no such menu item is apparent. An update, the menu box that lets me know that my image is exporting is still open but there has been no progress. It will just sit there forever, or until I force Aperture to quit. Here's another strange goings on: One of my folders of raw images appear to be pixelated and of very poor quality, even when viewing the masters. The images have already been published by the client in their annual report, so I know that what I am seeing on the screen is not reality. Should I just uninstall Aperture and reinstall? Also, what will this do to the thousands of images in my libraries? Thanks so much for your input and help. In no way am I an expert, but I've been successfully using Aperture since it came out. That was on my G5 dual processor mac with pre intel configuration. Now, these strange things are happening with my new replacement G5 with the Intel processors. Thanks again.
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