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Participating Frequently
June 25, 2011
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P: Ability to arrange & customize save-as file formats so popular formats are at the top

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.

Pinned Reply By Anshul_Saini

Hi All,

We’re happy to share that this feature is now available in the latest Photoshop 27.10 release.

Please update Photoshop to version 27.10 and give it a try.

For details on how to customize the file formats shown in the Save dialog, including how to configure and use the new functionality, please refer to the following: post: https://community.adobe.com/announcements-710/the-wait-is-finally-over-customize-your-save-dialog-file-formats-in-photoshop-1639074 

We’d love to hear how the new workflow works for you. If you run into any issues or have feedback after trying it, please let us know.

For an overview of the other new features, improvements, and bug fixes included in Photoshop 27.10, please see: https://community.adobe.com/announcements-710/photoshop-27-10-new-ai-editing-tools-light-adjustment-layer-and-more-1639062

Thank you to everyone who requested this feature and shared feedback with us.

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Inspiring
February 19, 2019
To put that into context, the highest rated idea for PS hast 232 votes, and it is to do with organisation of presets. The second highest rated is 175. So it's not like 33 is a small number. But the reason everyone keeps coming back to this tread is because it's a good illustration of how clunky and out of touch Adobe is. This is indeed not the sort of problem that breaks the app or makes your life miserable, but at the same time, there are just two possibilities:

1. is that they can't change this because of how old the software is and how little control they have over it, in which case, it makes no sense to keep hoping they will ever get better.
2. is that they are simply too out of touch, which leads to a similar conclusion.
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c.pfaffenbichler
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Community Expert
February 19, 2019
Well ... 33 votes seems far from overwhelming support for the request. 

Saving to particular formats can be streamlined with Actions and, considerably better, Scripts as it is. 
Have you looked into those options exhaustively yet? 
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CreeDeauxAuthor
Participating Frequently
February 14, 2019
I don't get how it doesn't have more traction after so many years. Looking through the ideas I see stuff like "custom colors for guides" and "saveable grid sizes" and I totally get there are a few people who use those features every day. But literally 100% of photoshop users use the save dialogue.

Are they ALL really ok with saving .png's by clicking off the filename to the filetype dropdown, tapping P, tapping down-down-down-down, clicking back on the filename, typing the name, pressing enter, pressing enter again to confirm the same old save options that they never change?
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Inspiring
February 13, 2019
This is starting to feel like a yearly event where someone posts a new comment in this thread and we complain about how bad Adobe is a bit more. Maybe it will evolve into a formalised meet-up or conference at first with people originally on this thread and later with dissatisfied customers the world over.
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Inspiring
February 13, 2019
LOL. Lordy, I don't even want to catalog all the changes since people started asking for this. They did remove Targa, as I recall. That's progress, I guess?
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CreeDeauxAuthor
Participating Frequently
February 13, 2019
I am still here, after making the thread 8 years ago.

I was a different man then. I weighed 40 pounds less. I was still in my early 30's. I had a different job. One of my best friends moved. I also moved. It feels like I was only recently married and divorced. I've had 3 cats die since then. I had one car get stolen, another totalled, and I've bought a new car. Which now has 80,000 miles on it.

The one constant in my life, the one thing that I can count on to never change, is that Adobe will not fix this f*cking UI problem.
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Earth Oliver
Legend
February 13, 2019
Two years? LOL. This thread is EIGHT years old and the request goes way, way back beyond that. We've been asking since the last century! Seriously.
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Participating Frequently
February 13, 2019
HI All-- a reminder that someone two years ago wrote a simple script (I think it's in this thread or an older one) that makes this change in Photoshop. If someone can hack it, why can't Adobe friggin' code this in? I just saved a file yet again as JPEG 2000 by accident this morning. I suggest EVERYONE on this thread open a new topic conversation on the site, and maybe if enough people make it an issue they will actually read this thread? This thread is now two years old.

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Earth Oliver
Legend
February 13, 2019
I know i can resize, but for some reason, that's usually the width that my Save As is, so that i can see my Folder Tree, Filename and then the columns for format, size, date, etc.
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Inspiring
February 13, 2019
A constant request to hide some formats for years now, just as constantly ignored.  '-}
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