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February 20, 2022

P: Inconsistent JPEG quality with 1-7 slider in Export As

  • February 20, 2022
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Today I update Photoshop to the latest (23.2) and now the Export As dialog does a miserable job on export quality. Even at the highest setting of 7, the pictures saved to web as JPG are _signiciantly_ bad. Just a day before—before I updated—the quality was no problem and the norm of what I had expected for the last few years.

 

Now, it’s so bad I have to figure out a workaround. This is not good with a week of critical photo work to bang out.

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Participant
February 10, 2025

 in photoshop 2024 version, i didnt see the options part buttons.

BrettN
Community Manager
Community Manager
May 23, 2023

CEP is our old extensibility platform. Several features were built using it. Due to its age and incompatibility with newer hardware, we are in the process of replacing it with UXP, the current platform. We rebuilt Export As in UXP but we allowed users to return to the CEP version by using the Legacy option. 

Newer features, such as the Neural Filters, which have face-aware options, are built using UXP, not CEP. You should not run into any issues with disabled modern features on more recent models of computers. 

ccrampton
Participating Frequently
May 23, 2023

oh no! I only got this machine because I couldn't teach Photoshop on my older machine. I hope you're wrong about that but I haven't tested the new function like facial recognition yet.

BrettN
Community Manager
Community Manager
May 23, 2023

@ccrampton From what I see, it looks like the Macbook Air 2022 is an M1 ARM machine. CEP (the legacy technology the old Export As dialog was built from) is not compatible and thus disabled on such systems. 

ccrampton
Participating Frequently
May 23, 2023

The workaround, choose legacy export is no longer available for me. PS 24.5 Macbook Air 2022. Looks like I can still get to SAVE FOR WEB Legacy though.

coredumperror
Participating Frequently
October 5, 2022

> To be clear: you don't have an option for "assets folder next to original document"?

 

I do. But I don't want to export to an assets folder. I want to export to the same folder as the PSD file. And I almost always want to overwrite any existing file.

 

> In a regular Export you can stop and think, while Quick Export just goes ahead and overwrites without warning.

 

That's not the case. When I do a Quick Export, I get a dialog box that lets me choose the filename, and it'll warn me if I choose an existing one. What I want is for that dialog box to always default to the folder in which the PSD file I'm exporting exists. There's no way to do that with the current settings. I can do it for Export As, but not Quick Export.

D Fosse
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 4, 2022

To be clear: you don't have an option for "assets folder next to original document"?

 

It's the same thing. Quick Export has to go to a separate subfolder, otherwise there would be too much risk of overwriting originals. In a regular Export you can stop and think, while Quick Export just goes ahead and overwrites without warning.

coredumperror
Participating Frequently
October 4, 2022

Oh wait... never mind.

 

That only fixes the Export As function. It doesn't fix Quick Export, which is controlled by the two radio buttons *above* the part of the dialog that you specified. And Quick Export still doesn't have an "export to the same folder as the current document" option.

coredumperror
Participating Frequently
October 4, 2022

Oh! Outstanding!! I had completely missed that change to the settings dialog when I had 23.5.1 installed.

 

I can actually Quick Export how I want now, and get images with good quality out of it! Wonderful!

D Fosse
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 4, 2022

You don't have this?