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

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eartho, Champion

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I'll see if i can get an official statement about this request.

I agree that it's 100% ridiculous this hasn't been implemented after all these years."

I'm assuming @4271024 didn't get an official statement (or any other kind of statement, knowing Adobe).

This is beyond ridiculous.

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This thread was started 8 years ago, but nothing have changed! But the subject still actual! Please just make a "File types" tab in a settings and let the user select which formats he don't want to use!

I have also just voted for this feature too - with so many options to save bits as favourites, to drag and drop to re-order lists nowadays why can this not be done with what must be the most used Dialog box in Photoshop - the Save Dialog box! Even if they cannot drop all formats at least thru some AI or ML stack your most used formats to the top of the options, or allow some lever of user cusomisation. ATM there is nothing

That would be great.  I'd love to hear a response as to why we have to endure all these used formats when so much else is customizable in the menus. 

I'll see if i can get an official statement about this request.

I agree that it's 100% ridiculous this hasn't been implemented after all these years.

I'm always surprised there aren't more me-too's also, I think people are just unaware of this forum. 45 people voted, but 12,000,000 people have sighed when they accidentally saved a JPEG2000 .jpf file, or pressed "p" to jump to png but forgot it jumps to .PCX.

I browse this thread once in a while to see what Adobe might have done about. They never do anything about it.

As an (ex-)software developer I can say without fear of contradiction that this is really not that hard to implement. I suspect the lack of Adobe action is more of a support issue: if everyone has a different Save As file type list, support will have more stuff to wade through to find a solution to someone's problem. They would be getting lots of cries for help from people who removed a file type and now don't understand why it's gone. Though just allowing the list to be rearranged would alleviate that.

Anyway, if getting this implemented is just a question of how many votes the request gets (as was mentioned in one of the earliest posts), then everyone who reads this should just scroll to the top of this page right now and click the Vote button. As of today, only 44 people have - including me!

This is truly absurd that you cannot customize this dialog box to leave out the many file types that are outdated and you never use.  It would be so simple to make a few file types as preferred ones at the top of the list and or to eliminate some.   There is so much customization of menu's available in photoshop that to not allow one to change the order or number of file types in this dialog and save you time fishing for  one among all the unused ones is just crazy.   WHY NOT DO THIS.  IT IS SO SIMPLE.  AND SO USEFUL.    PLEASE???

This is by no means to derail the feature request. The pragmatic approach is to make an action (or script) to save as to various formats while waiting/hoping for something to come from Photoshop development as a native feature.

As proof of concept, the following action has an invalid save path so is now "generic" and suitable for use on different systems, perhaps used via the actions panel or with an action keyboard shortcut or perhaps referenced in a script with a more flexible keyboard shortcut:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/sfnuboblcd2r9cp/SaveAs.atn?dl=0

Cheers... can you get some some of those 50 coworkers to vote for the topic?  

I can't believe only 42 people have voted on this, I guarantee 10,000x that number have, at some point, wished for it.

And yeah, it's a lot of cumulative time wasted. Not all of us use brush smoothing or canvas rotation or whatever, but 100% of photoshop users use the save dialog.