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Choices of editing software in Edit With... dialogue

David Georghiou
My Edit with... dialogue box drop down offers me the following 'editing' programs - Photoshop Elements 11, Windows Photo Viewer, Firefox, Word and Browse. I don't know why or how it has assembled that list. PSE11 makes sense as that is what I have, but for example Firefox and Word? They are on my PC but I would not use those for editing images.

I also have the Nik software suite installed and I can browse to and edit with the various applications in that suite (e.g. I use Silver Efex Pro 2 quite a lot) without any problems.

Is there any way of getting other software applications (such as the Nik suite above) into the Edit With... drop down so that I don't have to browse my C drive each time to get to the application I want to use - and at the same time remove stuff like Firefox and Word? I can't find any preferences I might set or anything in the CO help about this either.

I'm running CO 8.2 on Windows 8.1.
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  • Nils Johansson
    Hello,
    Maybe I understand your problem wrong here but this is what I believe.
    I guess you are in Windows, right-click on a .raw file and select open with and you do not see the CO as an alternative?
    Then you must associate .raw files to CO. Choose default program and select Capture One.
    Or, go to Control Panel and Program-default Program Associate a file type or protocol with a program, in this case Capture One.
    This is a Windows setting, has nothing to do with CO.

    but .. why not open the Capture One by clicking on the icon on the desktop and then import the .raw files you want to edit.

    Nils
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  • Nils Johansson
    After thinking for a bit, I understand that when davidge says "Edit with ..." is from within Capture One 😉 sorry.
    But maybe it has to do with the programs that are associated with the file type from Windows.
    Someone might know better.
    / Nils
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  • Thies
    In Windows find a .tiff file, rightclick and choose open with...
    Find your nik or other app and open the file. This should get Windows to remember the app the next time you 'open with...' and CO1 uses the Windows settings.
    The tricky part is, that CO1 first converts the raw to tiff and that you then 'open with...' the tiff file.
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  • David Georghiou
    Thanks for suggestions so far...but I don't believe those are the answer because, for example, neither the raw files (e.g. .RAFs) or TIFs or any other image format on my PC are, or ever have been, associated with MS Word, yet CO lists MS Word as an image editing option in the Edit With... drop down list. Also, CO presents the list of image editing applications before a file is opened, and it is the same list whether I try it on any type of raw, a Tif or a JPEG.

    In addition the Nik suite comprises a number of different image editing applications and I really would like them all available in the drop down not just one of them.

    CO is obviously somehow working out from somewhere (be it an internal parameter or a Windows setting) that Windows Photo Viewer, Firefox and MS Word are image editing applications when they are not. If it can make that association then it should somehow be feasible to remove such associations and include real image editing applications in the drop down list, either within CO or by doing something in Windows.
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  • David Duncan
    Have a look at the last reply to this thread, it may help you.

    viewtopic.php?f=57&t=17823
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  • David Georghiou
    I had a look at the post specified, but that is using another piece of software to sidestep the in-built CO8.2 functionality. Its also requires an additional step in that the edited image has to be imported back into the CO8 catalogue, whereas the Edit With... facility in CO8 does that automatically.
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  • David Georghiou
    Ah, I have found a partial solution - it was suggested in the thread linked to above.
    In Windows Explorer I associated a TIF file with each of the individual Nik applications in turn (right clicked on TIF file, chose Properties then Change... under 'Opens with' and browsed to the respective program .exe). CO8 now lists those apps in the drop down.

    Now I need a way of removing unwanted apps from the drop down (e.g. Word, Firefox etc.).

    It would so much easier of their was a Preference option in CO8 to do all of this...
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  • David Duncan
    Hi

    you can also specify the small utility as the 'Edit with' editing program, this then cuts out the additional step. When I submitted the post on the previous thread the 'Edit With' function did not automatically import the edited TIFF back into the catalogue. This was a welcome improvement.
    The 'EditList' utility does not interfere with CO8 at all, it merely directs the specified file to the specified editor.
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