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June 25, 2011
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P: Ability to arrange & customize save-as file formats so popular formats are at the top

  • June 25, 2011
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Photoshop supports about 20 formats, but I only use 4 or 5 of them. It's bugged me since 5.5 to have to fish for jpeg somewhere in the middle of the list. Can the file formats get arranged by most commonly used? And maybe allow us to remove stuff like targa and large file format that nobody uses.

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jane-e
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Community Expert
April 17, 2025

 

@trinity_too wrote: "It would take one of their coders ten minutes."

 

The scripters on this forum are volunteers who do not work for Adobe. You might ask them how long it takes (subtracting the amount of time they spent learning how to write script.)

 

Jane

 

 

 

Participating Frequently
April 17, 2025

I used to use Configurator 4 which was easy and intuitive and worked. I would buy Tom's app if I could afford it. I shouldn't have to learn how to use scripts - this should be included by PS. It would take one of their coders ten minutes.

c.pfaffenbichler
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April 17, 2025

You can use the decades-old automation features (Scripts, Actions) to streamline the exporting. 

Participating Frequently
April 17, 2025

They are too busy working on incorporating AI so users can make every photograph look fake, or even worse real. Soon we won't have to take photos with cameras or phones anymore - we'll just sit at a computer and ask Photoshop to 'create' an image with our specifications. All I want to do is slightly enhance my photos because of sensor limitations, and save in just a couple of favourite formats. 

Known Participant
April 17, 2025

Imagine being so lazy as an industry leader that 14 years after the fact, you're still torturing each and every single Photoshop user with this all the time.

c.pfaffenbichler
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December 14, 2024

If you create custom Actions (that are useful beyond specific images) make sure to save the atn-file and back it up. 

Dr Abstract
Known Participant
July 4, 2023

For 20 years I have been choosing psd, jpeg or gif.  Nothing else... and I have to wade through a bunch of other file types.  Could we please customize our file type list.  Cheers.

Bojan Živković11378569
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July 4, 2023

Workaround is to record separate actions for each file type. Turn modal on to see dialogue and assign keyboard shortcut to each action.

joziG
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June 27, 2023

Hello

Probably a bit of a "peculiar"request.

When I do a "save as", or "save a copy" there are so many (too many!) options of formats available. I probably use only about 10 % of those. The rest just get in the way.

Surely, there could be a preference on which formats one would like to see. Similar to the tool bar personalisation.   

Hope there is some good news for me 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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March 15, 2023

I spoke too soon. I must have had  channel so the number of file formats shown are less than the usual full list. And when you have the full list and type 'T' to move quickly, Targa gets selected because it's alphabetically before Tif. I take back my kudos to Adobe.  

Known Participant
July 1, 2022

11 years and counting. Adobe keeps 'borrowing' new features from competitor products which are innovating, all the while disregarding incredibly basic things which every single user has to deal with every single time they open Photoshop.

 

It shows that their focus is trying to get more money out of us and upgrade the Cloud plan since every now and then Photoshop will undo the offline Save As preference and nag us with the Save to Cloud. No thanks. The year is 2022, we have SSD storage and hundreds of gigabytes of it.

 

What's important is that they've already announced more features a la Skylum's Luminar, one-click this, one-click that.. how about one-click saving to the prefer and/or most recent filetype?

 

Such a vile, lazy business model... Just scrape the damn analytics data from all your users, realize that the gross majority never uses most of the formats and allow us to pick which formats to be presented with, so that when we hit 'P' to get to PNG it doesn't have to be 7 keystrokes.