When I double-click on a JPEG, how can make it open directly into Photoshop, rather than Preview?
Right-click a JPEG file (any one), select “Get Info.”
In the dialog that results, change the “Open With” option, and click “Change All…”
I’ve been told that its better for your computer and The program if you open JPGs with Photoshop. Don’t know if it’s true but I was told that by the teacher of my Photoshop class.
Your teacher is a nincompoop.
Thanks, TimeWinder. Although Macs don’t have a right-click, I made it work anyway.
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Although Macs don’t have a right-click…
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Sure they do, if your actual mouse has the capability. Or you can <CTRL>+left click.
If I right click a JPEG I do not see anything remotely resembling “Get Info” in the menu that pops up. Is this a Mac thing? (But they don’t even normally have right click, do they?) Is it specific to Photoshop?
I am on Windows 7 now, but I have experience with many other versions of Windows and never saw anything like this. In my experience it is a tricky, awkward and frustrating business to change file associations in Windows. I would love to be able to do it the way you describe. (I am not even sure I know how to do it at all in 7.)
Macs have had right click for a very long time. Nowadays they have more variants of click, drag, swipe, and chord than Windows would ever dream of (this is not necessarily a good thing IMHO).
Get Info is a Mac thing. It has been part of the Mac desktop interface since day one. Which was quite some time before Windows was able to point and click on anything at all. The OP asked about the problem specifically for a Mac, so the answer was for a Mac.
Fixing things like this under Windows really is a pain. There is a fundamental difference in philosophy between the Mac (and via its BSD related components right back to Unix) and Windows (and its deep roots in VMS). The Registry under Windows comes from this. It was a bad idea when they first did it, and it hasn’t got any better.
The Windows Registry may be a pain in the ass, but it’s not like changing file associations in Win7 is particularly difficult.
Yeah, I can’t fathom why a Mac user (of which I am one) would use a one-button mouse. All the Apple mouses I’ve ever used have been crap (especially the Mighty Mouse with its awful ergonomics. I couldn’t use it for more than an hour before the top of my hand started shooting in pain. I wish I were exaggerating.) Gotta be at least two buttons.
Nor in XP. Right click on a file of the type. Choose ‘open with’, go to Choose Program, choose the program and click ‘always use this program to open files of this type’. Viola.
Or open any folder. Go to ‘tools->folder options’, choose the file association tab, find the file type you want, and repeat the last 2 steps of the above.
shrug Old habits die hard. I’ve never used right click so obviously don’t know what I’m missing. I’ve noticed that I naturally rest my finger on the right side of my mouse, so whenever I work on someone’s else’s mac where they have enabled right click, I end up with all sorts of weird stuff popping up.
First thing I do is disable right click.
At my age, I’ve developed a slight shake in the 3 “outer” fingers of my right hand. If I don’t disable right click, I keep clicking with the middle finger when I don’t mean to. I sometimes forget that it’s even possible to right click.
The days of Macs not doing right-click are long gone. The OS has supported them for well over 10 years, and starting with the Mighty Mouse their mice all have right click capability, it just has to be turned on on System Preferences.
On the chance someone comes back to this later with a single-button Mac mouse: in addition to control-clicking (which is equivalent to a right-click on Mac), you can also select (single-click) a JPEG in the finder, and find “Get Info” on the File menu. Or select it and press command-I. They all do the same thing.