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Making Photoshop your default image editor

Making Photoshop your default image editor - Photoshop Tutorial

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Making Photoshop your default image editor

Okay gang, the first thing that we have to do is establish Photoshop as the default application for opening JPEG files, TIF files and PSD files because those are the kinds of files that I'll be providing to you over the course of this series and these are the kinds of files you'll run into on a regular basis. Now this turns out to be our biggest tech-support question where Photoshop is concerned at lynda.com is how do I open my files in the first place because what people want to do is they want to find the files that I'm giving you and just double-click on a file at the desktop level and that means it could open with whatever is the default application for that file type. Not something I can control on my side. It's something you have to change on your side. You can see, here I've just opened the JPEG file. It opens up inside Windows Photo Viewer. That's not going to do me any good where learning Photoshop is concerned. So I need to close out of that. This tends to be a bigger issue…

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