Hi
Does anyone have experience of calling DPP4 as the external editor on Apple Photos? When Photos first came out there was no external editor option - all you had were the tools in the app itself. There is now an extension called External Editor which allows other apps to be used. Basically it appears in the Photos edit menu and clicking brings up a drop down menu of all the editing software own your Mac that is suitable for that image (different lists for JPEG or RAW for example).
I installed this to get a wider range of tools than available for RAW in the native app (my version of Elements does not support the 80D RAW format, you have to convert to .dng, and it isn't a patch but a full blown new purchase to get it compatible) and hey presto, DPP4 shows up as an edit option. BUT - when you open it, it opens DPP (so far so good) but doesn't then place the image in the edit window - which it does in Elements as I have tried on JPEGS.
Anyone managed to get this to work? I don't edit or use RAW on all images, but there are some that need heavier help - I do a lot of bird photography and dark Red Kites from below against a white sky are particularly in need of tweaking!
And for the record - I am quite happy with Apple Photos as my primary library tool and for sharing across all our various "i" devices, and storing photos on iCloud as a back up - £2.99/month currently gets me 200GB and we are only upto 70GB used (the upgrade to 1TB only goes to £6.99/month). I have no desire to go to Lightroom and monthly plans etc etc.
I have a work around to maintain RAW quality in saved JPEGS if needed but it is an extra workflow step I would like to avoid.
Any help/ideas greatly appreciated.
Does anyone have experience of calling DPP4 as the external editor on Apple Photos? When Photos first came out there was no external editor option - all you had were the tools in the app itself. There is now an extension called External Editor which allows other apps to be used. Basically it appears in the Photos edit menu and clicking brings up a drop down menu of all the editing software own your Mac that is suitable for that image (different lists for JPEG or RAW for example).
I installed this to get a wider range of tools than available for RAW in the native app (my version of Elements does not support the 80D RAW format, you have to convert to .dng, and it isn't a patch but a full blown new purchase to get it compatible) and hey presto, DPP4 shows up as an edit option. BUT - when you open it, it opens DPP (so far so good) but doesn't then place the image in the edit window - which it does in Elements as I have tried on JPEGS.
Anyone managed to get this to work? I don't edit or use RAW on all images, but there are some that need heavier help - I do a lot of bird photography and dark Red Kites from below against a white sky are particularly in need of tweaking!
And for the record - I am quite happy with Apple Photos as my primary library tool and for sharing across all our various "i" devices, and storing photos on iCloud as a back up - £2.99/month currently gets me 200GB and we are only upto 70GB used (the upgrade to 1TB only goes to £6.99/month). I have no desire to go to Lightroom and monthly plans etc etc.
I have a work around to maintain RAW quality in saved JPEGS if needed but it is an extra workflow step I would like to avoid.
Any help/ideas greatly appreciated.
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