"right click" open with options for picture files

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tried searchin but can't find answer, so decided to ask

when you have picture files (any format), when you right click on it, there are a list of options right, then there is one that says, open with and there will be this entire list of shortcuts... how do i go in and set them to the ones i want.

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I know some of them are batch processing "programs"

I want to know is how to put my own batch processing "programs" into that open with list.
 
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To do this, select the type of file you are interested in, say a JPG. Do a Get Info on it (CMD+I). Select the application of interest from the Open with: drop box near the bottom of the Get Info window and then use the Change All... button to make this a universal setting for this sort of file. Done!
 
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the list is the same as when i do a "right click"

what i want to find out is how to change that list, replace the items with custom functions of my own.
 
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I asked this question a while ago and nobody really knew the answer. There's a Contextual Menu options folder, but it's empty, so you can't use that as a way to get rid of them.
 
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yeah, i'm trying to go into everything i can go into to see how i can change it.
 

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