Opening multiple images in PhotoMatix Pro

[FairfieldPhoto]

I am using PhotoMatix Pro (64-bit, Windows) to create my HDR images. 

When I drag nine images from PM 5 (R 13217, Windows) to PhotoMatix, it opens all of the images in one running instance of PhotoMatix.

However, once I have configured PhotoMatix as an editor in PM,  select nine images, right click "Edit Selected Photos With...", and then click on the newly added "PhotoMatix Pro" option, I get nine running instances of PhotoMatix, each containing one file.

This behavior works fine for Photoshop.

Do I have something set wrong or is this a hiccup?

-M

[Kirk Baker]

Photo Mechanic doesn't have code in it for specifically emulating drag and drop in that application, mostly because I've never heard of it before.  So for any editor that PM hasn't been specifically coded for, it falls back and uses the Windows Shell to execute the application with one photo (full path to file) for each photo.  Most applications on Windows are coded in such a way that they don't execute multiple copies.  Subsequent executions 'connect' with the existing instance and tell them to open the file instead.

There are two ways this could be solved.  One is to ask the developer of PhotoMatix Pro to add this functionality at least as a preference.  The other would be for me to get a copy of this application and figure out how to emulate drag and drop with it.

Perhaps you could get the developer to give us a license to their application?

Or, just use drag and drop instead.

-Kirk