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

Yes, the save dialog is a complete mess and it should definitely be improved in order to make workflows more streamlined.

But you should have created this FR as an "idea" so that we could upvote your idea:

Photoshop feature request: customize the order of formats in save dialog

 

It would be great to give Photoshop users the option to customize the order is which file formats are displayed in save dialog window, so that regularly used formats would be at the top? Like Tiff first, then JPEG.

 

How many times have we all laboriously scrolled down to the Tiff or another file type only to accidentally slide past and end up with a Targa? Then go back and re-save, delete the Targa and carry on. Mulitiply the cost of this time wasted by the number of users worldwide, and the number of times it occurs daily. It boggles the mind how much time must be lost yearly. 

 

Can this be changed in future versions? Or is there a work around?

Please refer to this 10-year-old request on the Photoshop Feedback section:

https://feedback.photoshop.com/conversations/photoshop/photoshop-ability-to-arrange-customize-saveas-file-formats-so-popular-formats-are-at-the-top/5f5f44fb4b561a3d422d5949?utm_source=notification&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=new_comment&utm_content=reply_button&reply=[objectObject]#reply_20457595

About time something got done about this...

"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."

(Chris Cox - Jan 24 2016)

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I'm a longtime IT professional, so I managed to know hundreds of software developers along the years, and I know exactly what means the expression "This isn't a simple coding change", mentioned 5 years ago by this ex-Adobe member in this same thread.

It's real meaning is "This change would take some hours, maybe minutes of our precious time, but as we're creatures blessed with infinite knowledge and wisdom, we don't think a request made by inferior creatures like you poor users is really worth our effort."

Sarcasm aside, it's not far from the truth...

@gordon_greaves

yes, you're right. I've never received any communication about this issue. Re-reading the original comments from almost 10 years ago, Cox mentioned that this isn't a "simple coding change" and what i wonder, is why? Why is Ps built in such a way that changes to the UI like this aren't simple coding changes? 

Perhaps one reason that the thread has not received many votes is that the feature is broken (at least for me today on Crome on the Mac).  Each time I have tried to click the up-vote, I get "Failed to perform the conversation activity, please try again."  

How many would give up upon seeing that message twice?

Trying to get a change from a company like Adobe calls to mind the monolith scene from 2001.

I have used Photoshop in one form or another since the 1990s.

How many people use Pixar other than people who work for the company?  Do they still use it?

I supposed with the many options in the Preferences pane that there would be a set of checkboxes for the desired file formats in the "Save As" dialog.  Nope.  Like many I found my way to this thread and up-voted it.

The trouble with creating an action or script for saving in a favorite type is to find a key equivalent that is memorable and available.  So many are taken up by the multitude of Adobe settings.

Of course this is the same company which leaves Acrobat "Pro" (really "Amateur") with OCR ("Text Recognition") as a single-threaded process in a world where most computers come with 8 or more processor cores.  I have installed a Python script (OCRmyPDF) which runs from the command line and is much faster but should not an expensive subscription program like Acrobat make the most of the available hardware capacity?

I've been using Macs since 1985 and most of the flagship software products available for it for most of that time.  Sometimes open source is the only way to go.  At least there a change can be made without being tied up in quite so much red tape as Adobe seems to be mired in.

I mean, they kind of need to update that dialogue anyway for Webp format. Smaller lossy files than jpeg, smaller lossless than PNG, plus transparency support. 

Not asking for much adobe, you already made a fancy custom OPEN dialogue that nobody asked for, now just do that for save except less fancy.

PORTABLE BITMAP!! ?? Does anybody use this?

went through all the comments. no luck. which wastes even MORE time. There's two companies that have gone from great to horrific more than any other, except, I dunno, maybe Enron... in my lifetime: Apple and Adobe.