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

Howdy... I started the original topic a while ago. Glad it's still active.
Chris, am I to take it you're a PS dev? If so, sorry you get so much flak.

I just wanna make this one small point, hopefully it has some impact.

Some PS/LR issues are frustrating, but only for a limited subset of photoshop users.
For example I see a brush organization topic with 132 votes.
But some users don't even touch brushes, much less need to organize them.

This minor issue with file formats, however, is felt by 100% of photoshop's users. We all save files, whether we're digitally painting or editing photos or tweaking video frames.

Fishing for filetypes is only a second wasted, but multiply 100% of the users, by 100% of their saved files, and cumulatively it's millions of wasted hours.

So please, consider bumping this one up the chain, or coding it yourself. It's one of those things that will feel like a breath of fresh air once it's implemented. People will say "I never knew how much I needed this, until I finally had it."

Thanks for your time, and the fantastic product.

The Adobe website link for Photoshop requests leads to this site.
The fact that this is the site for Photoshop (and related product) feature requests has been communicated rather widely, even if it isn't featured in every Adobe advertisement.

Anyone from Adobe ever looked at Corel Draw? Does exactly what we need - as you use a file format, it goes to the top of the list and remains there. Most commonly used ones end up as a block at the top, lesser/never used ones are below, separated by a space. It's been doing that for years (decades? Can't remember).

As far as this being 'the petition', where in all the Adobe stuff flooding the net does it say that requests/petitions for product IMPROVEMENTS are available at... It doesn't. This is headed "Community-powered support for Photoshop Family" which inclines users to be believe that this is where you can get help, not request changes.

Man, Chris' job must suck. Having to find new end increasingly complicated ways to convince people Adobe is actually doing a great job and nobody really wants better, easier to use products with new features, which are stupid and hard to do anyway.

You are reading something into the responses that is not there.

Yes, there is interest in change - which is why the popular requests have hundreds of people voting for them. And there are hundreds of requests with more votes than this one.

Look at the topic - not that many posts, and 10 people voting on it (one of which is me). That's compared to some of the suggestions that have hundreds of people voting for them.
This topic is the petition.

I said I "didn't see and official comment" not that you "didn't respond". And I still don't, and I don't have time to scroll through this thread again. Thanks for the (defensive) reply.

I work with hundreds of other designers and teach design to hundreds of aspiring professionals, and most I have talked to thought this was a great idea. Most younger students have no idea what a Targa or JPEG2000 file is.

The comments your eceive (and their quantities) are not reflective of the community as a whole-- there is certainly an interest for this change to the program. You are missing this point: this is a clear improvement over the current application-- I would think you and your dev team would be more than happy to improve your product and continue to make it better.

Your attitude is similar to the response I have received in all my other posts with open-minded suggestions on how to improve Adobe products: smug and defensive.

Chris,
I am surprised by the comment" only a few people supporting it"
Everyone I know is of the same opinion, and are glad someone(Philip, e.g.) has brought this up. If you have a way for us to sign a petition,if that's what you need, I'd be happy to circulate it.

I have responded, so you can't say we haven't.

But it's a feature request with only a few people supporting it.
We have thousands of requests, many of which have much more support behind them.
And no, this is not a simple coding change at all.

Hey Chris-- I did "read the comments again"-- I didn't see an official reply from Adobe. Is this something you can change in your products-- it seems like an easy coding change (some people have already hacked it) and would improve your products. I really get the feeling that since 1) we have no alternative product choices and 2) you have forced us into a subscription model that Adobe has little incentive to improve. That's the same mistake Microsoft made back in the day.