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

Marten you can do the same thing in windows, unfortunately it only removes a handful of useless formats and still leaves a dozen that you must sift through. But here's how to do it. We have to get to your photoshop app folder, and the easiest way is probably to just do this:

• If you have a shortcut to photoshop on your taskbar or start menu, right click it. This should pop up a list of recent PS files, plus a link to photoshop itself, and some options like "unpin from taskbar" or "close".

• Within that menu, right click that photoshop link, and choose properties. This bring up a properties dialogue, and there should be a button somewhere on there (bottom left) that says open file location. Click that. You're now in the photoshop program folder.

• At the top of the folder is a list of subfolders, one of them is called "Required"... open it, and then within that open "Plug-Ins". Note this is different from another Plug-Ins folder hiding elsewhere. You want the one under "Required". You should see a subfolder called "File Formats". There's a bunch of files ending in the .8bi extension. It should be safe to delete these [or most of them anyway... you should probably keep PSDX (.psd) and WBMP (.bmp)]... I have been running for years with everything deleted except those formats and radiance, and have had no problems.

Well, except for the problem where I have to do all these silly workarounds and Targa's still cluttering my list 😛

Any ideas for Windows users?

What it won't do is let you see them all again quickly when someone wants you to work with a format you don't typically use. But if you really don't want them and are sure you never will need them, I guess getting rid of PS's ability to handle them is the way to go. I personally prefer the idea of us hounding them to come up with a better solution.<G>

You can go in to the Photoshop application file itself and remove them individually.

If your on Mac, follow this below.
Go to your Applications folder, then the Photoshop folder. Within the Photoshop folder you need to right click on the Photoshop app and choose 'Show Package Contents'.

This puts you in the Contents folder, from here just follow this path:
Contents » Required » Plug-Ins » File Formats

Remove formats at will. Not the cleanest or most correct way but it'll get those archaic formats out of the way for you.

I think almost everyone I know has asked for this at one time or another. Most of us probably only use 4 of the formats on any kind of regular basis. Here we can shorten our menus if we want, and still reveal all if we need. But the file format list is stuck in the last century.

Whenever one saves a file, a long list of file types are provided from which to choose. I only use a few of these. Is there anyway to rid this list of those I will never use and just have a list of the ones I want? I was advised to post this here and perhaps it will make the list as a feature request. Thanks!

I still get notifications on this thread after 5 years, and still hope for it. I did eventually start using large file format once in a while, but still don't need targa 😛

Their reasoning is pretty obvious... these little UI changes are just not gonna sell them new copies of the software, it's not super fun like face-aware liquify. It just makes existing paying customers 2% happier.

No real financial motive, it would strictly be out of the kindness of their hearts. So here's to hoping that someone with a kind heart reads this, 5 years later.

Realistically this is all we're asking: Put a little empty star icon next each existing format. Let me click that icon to favorite that format. The star becomes filled. Put the starred items at the top. That's it. 20 minutes tops.

Help me obi wan adobe, you're my only hope.

Will they read it? Probably. Will they do aything about it? Probably not - obviously the great cash-cow herd hasn't voted enough even though (a) it makes sense and (b) we've been asking for thiss for years now. we'll just get another non-answer about how there are so many other things being requested on a daily basis and they can't do everything. sure, there's some great improvements in the software (I've been on it since 3.0.4), but a comparatively simple thing like this that affects, as noted above, 100% of users, doesn't get the time of day.

Well said! I hope they read that.

Ripley, if I could reach out and hug you thru this screen I would do exactly that. 

At last, I no longer have to scroll down to get to PNG, such a small kindness... thank you!!!