External Editor

FLOGVIT.photosuite integrates with your favorite image editors. Open any image in an external application with a single keystroke.

Quick Open#

Press E to open the current image in your external editor. FLOGVIT.photosuite stays open and you can continue culling.

What the editor gets is the picture as you see it:

• A RAW with a RAW developer chosen (Lightroom, Capture One — the Default RAW Editor, or an editor for its file type) gets the RAW itself.
• Otherwise, a RAW, or any picture you have cropped or developed, is first rendered — with its develop, crop and orientation, in Adobe RGB, 16 bits per channel — to <name>-edit.tif beside it, and the editor opens that. Photoshop, Affinity or Pixelmator then start from your edit instead of the camera's RAW, and the TIFF shows up in the folder.
• A finished picture you have not touched goes as it is.

Setting Up Editors#

Configure your editors in Settings → Launching.

Default Editor#

The editor E opens pictures in (Photoshop, Affinity Photo, Pixelmator).

Default RAW Editor#

A RAW developer that should get the RAW file itself. Leave it empty to have RAWs developed by FLOGVIT.photosuite and handed to the default editor as a 16-bit TIFF.

Per-Format Editors#

Assign different editors to different file types:

File Type	Example Editor
JPEG	Photoshop
RAW (CR3, NEF, ARW, RAF)	Lightroom, Capture One
TIFF / PSD	Photoshop
DNG	Lightroom

Workflow#

A typical edit-round-trip:

1. Cull and rate your images in FLOGVIT.photosuite
2. Filter to picks (Option+P)
3. Press E to open in your editor
4. Edit, save, and close
5. Back in FLOGVIT.photosuite, the image updates if the file changed

Context Menu#

Right-click any image and select Open in External Editor for the same functionality. The context menu also shows which editor is configured for that file type.