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Dan Rodney
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 19, 2021
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P: Bring back JPEG quality percentage to Export As dialog

  • August 19, 2021
  • 79 replies
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I updated to Photoshop version 22.5.0 and just noticed that File > Export > Export As has a majorly dumbed down JPEG quality menu. Photoshop is for professionals. Having accurate control over quality is import for optimizing to a small file size. Giving a few choices (and not even telling us what quality they are) is not acceptable for a pro app. I know for now I can go into prefs and use the legacy version, but please bring back the quality percentage!

 

I also posted this on the Photoshop Feedback website which I think is a more appropriate place to discuss this, but wanted to see what other people think. It's probably best to comment there so Adobe knows. Photoshop Feedback: Bring back JPEG quality percentage to Export As dialog 

 

{Moderator edited title - PS-71391}

79 replies

FoxCadet
Known Participant
November 22, 2021

It's like we're being punished for weilding the newest, most powerful technology built for professional creatives, with a mind numbing downgrade and we don't have the option to do something that's already backward compatible.

atelierdavidsanchez
Participant
November 22, 2021

Dear Dan, 

you saved me! thank you 😄 

Participant
November 20, 2021

plus having to  reset the setting on each export is a dissaster, i've already shipping down quality images due to this bug. 

Participant
November 4, 2021

Wow... What..?! Whose idea was this, this is just so much worse than the percentage slider in every way. Why would you remove functionality and precision of 0-100 in favour of vague 1-7 scale? Absolutely ridicilious! Revert, revert, revert!

Participant
November 2, 2021

+1 for return to the % slider.  I work on enterprise level projects that often they require extremely strict file sizes for web ads etc. Not having the ability to balance quality and file size will make it impossable to meet client expectations.
This needs a reversion asap. I don't know who asked for this change, but I have some very high end clients that will not have there standards met because of it.

I've been using adobe products for 25+ years, it wasn't broken, dont try to fix it.

Participating Frequently
November 2, 2021

Jeffery .. certainly hope they are!!! This "export as" is clunky, slow and redundant step into the dim past ... not what I expected in an "upgrade"....,

Participant
November 2, 2021

A change like that tells me one thing, and one thing only. Your project managers and software designers have NO CLUE how marketers actually behave in today's business climate, when we actual professionals have to get our output files down to a specific file size. This change was ignorant and arrogant. Change it back NOW. 

Legend
October 21, 2021

@Christopher Goossens Use legacy won't ever work on M1 (nor will old CEP panels) - that technology isn't being ported forward. I know the export as team are working on a bunch of improvements and new functionality for export as.

Christopher Goossens
Participant
October 21, 2021

Hello Jeffrey,
Thanks for your answer. But since yesterday I have to work with a Macbook Pro (M1). Do you know if the "Use legacy Export as..." will be available anytime soon. Because of course I miss the percentage options, but also the new "Export as..." is really really slow to load and it's buggy for me. I am used to use this feature everyday...
Thanks again for your help.
Christopher

Participant
October 14, 2021

Bring the slider back!! I cannot believe this was removed. This feature was extremely improtant to me when resizing images, and balancing quality with file size for responsive web use.