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Participating Frequently
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.

185 replies

Inspiring
October 25, 2018
From when John Nack ran PS. "Just Do It." They still just do it—several small fixes, upgrades to features that don't require all that much of an engineer's time and isn't too likely to break a lot of things along the way. He made PS users very happy because a lot of little things that bug you to death, but are almost too small to pay serious attention to, got fixed. That's a JDI. Some things we think are JDI's aren't, and it would be helpful if we were told so when our little Idea we think could be resolved tomorrow if anyone bothered, isn't so little.

But I think they still keep lists of these so if they have extra time, engineers can take these on. At least, I've noticed with new releases it pays to look at the what's new on their site, since a bunch of very little things get mentioned — like being able to simply click on the lock icon on a Background layer to convert it to a Layer 0—things like that.
Kukurykus
Legend
October 25, 2018
I'm not the one who's sarcastic 😉 btw what is JDI?
Inspiring
October 25, 2018
LOL.  Maybe that will turn this request into a JDI. . . maybe.
CreeDeauxAuthor
Participating Frequently
October 25, 2018
I will never let this go. When I die, they will put on my tombstone
HE DIED MAKING EXTRA CLICKS 
EVERY TIME HE SAVED A FILE
Known Participant
October 24, 2018
Lala, persevere! I reported on a bug SIX YEARS ago, and it was only fixed with the CC 2019 update. Of course now something else I use daily is broken, so  ̄\_(ツ)_/ ̄
Inspiring
October 24, 2018


I know this is not the most pressing thing but over all the years that I have opened the "Save As..." dialog and had to scroll down the long list of ridiculously outdated file formats, I have actually wasted a considerable amount of time on it.

Come on, there is "Compuserve GIF" in the list. COMPUSERVE! That is so last millennium.

It would be a much appreciated feature.

I'm a professional retoucher and still don't even know what half of these were EVER used for. And I am not planning on finding out - ever.

Thanks, Mr. Photoshop
Kukurykus
Legend
August 2, 2018
I scripted many things easily in no time they should be part of Photoshop so I agree with you. Moreover I can say they don't do it not because that is complex, but don't want to do it for no reason. If they wanted it would be done few releases ago.
Inspiring
August 2, 2018
How is this not a thing after 7 years of requests? I'm a dev (not a PS dev), and I can tell you, it does NOT take long to customize this even as an indie dev. Why am I paying monthly again...?
Participating Frequently
July 30, 2018
Right-- you did open this thread!
Earth Oliver
Legend
July 30, 2018
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