Make Pixelmator Pro as a better external editing application

What features would you like to see in Pixelmator Pro?
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2022-07-07 04:20:37

Hi;

Any better solution to make Pixelmator Pro as external editing application?

this is what Adobe do photoshop does:
1. I have a texture image in Blender
2. I have select edit externally
3. Photoshop opens that image
4. after I finish editing, by saving image, image just saved (without asking anything).
5. I back to Blender, select reload, texture image has updated。


This is what Pixelmator Pro does:
1. I have a texture image in blender
2. I have select edit externally
3. Pixelmator Pro opens that image
4. After I finish editing, when I save image, Pixelmator Pro asks where to save, and file type is .pxd, I don't want to change file type, so I use "export..." instead. and then Pixelmator Pro asks me file type and where to save the file. But I don't know where was the texture image located. so I have to save a new file.
5. Back to Blender, I have to Open a new file, now I have tow texture images one is the original another is the edited.

What Photoshop does in this workflow is really simple, hope Pixelmator Pro can make this happen.
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2022-08-03 18:50:45

You can already do this to some extent although the preference to change this behavior isn't intuitively named.
In Preferences/General uncheck "Import JPEG, PNG, and TIFF images".