To edit a photo in another program after selecting it in Excire Foto, it can be transferred to any image editing program installed on your computer.
There are various options for this.
By right-clicking on an individual photo, an external program for image or video editing can be called up via the menu item "Open with...".
A list of all installed programs that are suitable for the respective file type will appear. Select the desired program here to open the photo directly from Excire Foto.
This is particularly useful if you want to edit your images in Adobe Photoshop, Affinity Photo or another specialized tool, for example.
The function is also available for video files so that you can open them with an appropriate video player if required.
You can also drag and drop photos into an image editing program using the mouse, provided the other application also supports this.
While "Open with..." only supports one image at a time, you can drag and drop up to 10 files simultaneously from Excire Foto to another application. Please hold down the CTRL key (or CMD key on Mac) before dragging the images with the mouse.
Some image editing programs do not offer the option of opening a specific image file for editing, as they only include entire folders in their database. These include popular programs such as Adobe Lightroom and Capture One. If you try to transfer a photo via "Open with...", only the import dialog of the corresponding program opens and the individual photo is ignored. In this case, there is another way to select photos for editing.
To do this, select the desired images in Excire Foto and mark them with a star rating or a color marker. These markings can be written as metadata in the image files or in XMP sidecar files and are therefore also visible in programs such as Lightroom or Capture One. Make sure to save the metadata via the "Save metadata" menu after marking.
The Accept flag, on the other hand, is not written to the metadata as it is not part of a recognized metadata standard and is not adopted by Excire Foto in XMP files.
After saving the metadata, you can use the Export menu to copy the selected images to a new directory, which can then be imported into the desired editing program. Alternatively, this directory can also be used as a so-called "watch folder" to enable an automated import.