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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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CreeDeauxAuthor
Participating Frequently
July 30, 2018
Actually I was the one who opened this thread, and it was 7 years ago.

But we're on the same page, this is long overdue for a fix. I'm tired of scrolling past Dicom format or accidentally saving JPEG2000 files. This one fix would save me more time per year than anything else Adobe has thought of in the past decade.

They took the time to make a stupid new document dialogue that is slow and loaded with presets I won't use, but won't make this 15 minute fix for a better save dialogue that everyone uses.
Participating Frequently
July 30, 2018
"CompuServe GIF"? Really. Here is how I want my menu to look. 
Inspiring
July 30, 2018
wow Why didn't I think to do this sooner.  Thank you!  One day a year someone hits you with that odd file type need, or it's a necessary step to getting into another format.  But otherwise it's nice to turn some of these off.  Wish we could do all of them that we want.
Participating Frequently
July 30, 2018
OK: EARTH TO ADOBE. I opened this thread 1 year ago and still no response. I have been using Photoshop since it was in beta (our studio tested it before you launched the product). In nearly 25 years of using Photoshop, I have only saved files in 4 formats (jpeg, tiff, psd, png, gif). WHY DO I HAVE TO SCROLL THROUGH ARCHAIC FORMATS every time I save? This is such an obvious and easy improvement. Someone in a previous thread actually wrote a patch to fix this. Its a few lines of code. ALLOW US TO CHOOSE WHICH FORMATS SHOW OR LET US CUSTOM PULLDOWN ORDER SO OUR MOST USED FORMATS APPEAR ON TOP OF PULLDOWN. 

Your tech people contacted me and instead of thanking, said they can't make all the improvements people suggest. So, I guess you focus on making your UI and icons illegible for most people over 40 years old and other "improvements" that make your software increasingly complex and difficult to use. 

FIX IT! 
Inspiring
July 30, 2018
I too have been waiting and watching on this.  Are we there yet?  Hopefully I just missed the memo of the new process.   This reminds me of 3ds Max.  It could always almost do everything, but not a single part of it was easy or in a decent UI.  Many a gray hair...

The Save As dialog and list of filetypes in PS just got me to look this up again.  My eyes are killing me from having to search for "photoshop pdf" instead of just PDF, and reselecting jpeg after I accidentally hit jpeg2000.  The "star" method of favorites and bringing those to the top above a break in the list mentioned on this page is by far my favorite.   Just do that much and forget any detailing beyond that.  Or just have a menu in preferences were we can check/uncheck the filetypes we want listed there if nothing else.
jrh0000
Participating Frequently
June 23, 2018
I can't imagine anyone not wanting this feature. I will say that this topic was hard to locate.  Perhaps if Adobe did some polling of users "would you like this feature?" a lot of support might be found.
Participant
June 20, 2018
BUMP
Inspiring
May 25, 2018
Yup, it's irritating. TIF is way down at the bottom. PNG is in the middle. JPEG is a little higher up, but so easy to accidentally click on another version of JPEG than wanted. And PSD is right at the top. Pretty awful for the most common formats. I'd think it was a JDI to fix it since they let us hide unwanted menu items—but it may be terribly tricky for all I know and no one  wants to be the one assigned to work on it. <BG>
Participant
May 24, 2018
Seriously... ADOBE!! I don't even know what programs use .DCM .PXR .SCT formats.. Please assign some engineer that's got 1 week to spare, to fix this!

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March 22, 2018
Why not? Tell everyone you know. I already posted it on the Photoshop Facebook page - it mysteriously disappeared...