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

  • August 19, 2021
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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}

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    rimcorp
    Participating Frequently
    October 13, 2021

    EXACTLY!! In "our business" time is money and when adobe makes a giant leap into wasting time to be less effective, it underlines the lack of real workd graphic production experience their "programm" actually have ...

      silver darling
      silver darling
      Known Participant
      October 12, 2021

      And now the choice is go back to 2010 legacy or ... nothing.

        silver darling
        silver darling
        Known Participant
        October 12, 2021

        And the arrogance.

         

        "We're not going to tell you what's changed, you'll just have to find out yourselves and scrape round a "community forum"  for answers because we provide no real support for our overpriced product."

         

        We can only pray someone with real experience answers our pleas before some amateur with zero knowledge gives yet another bum steer with no thought except to get credits on their CV. It is woeful.

          silver darling
          silver darling
          Known Participant
          October 12, 2021

          Gee thanks Adobe, just screwed my workflow. I'm now spending more time working round adobe's restrictions than I am producing.

           

          If adobe wasn't in a monopoly position as industry standard I would ditch it.

           

           

           

           

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            Sean Davitt
            Participant
            October 5, 2021

            Agreee not very usefull these flowery words, i spend most of my day trying to optimise images fro web and I always want to get as close to the max file weight as I can. Thanks for the tip "go into prefs and use the legacy version" thats fixed it for now.

            Cheers Sean in lockdown Sydney

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            rimcorp
            Participating Frequently
            September 25, 2021
            Seems like 'Updates" are being designed by code monkeys who never worked in a real design production environment . . ."Say, wouldn't it be cool if we . . ."
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            counteragent
            Participating Frequently
            September 25, 2021

            This is Absurd, every-time I update Photoshop and Illustrator, Adobe changes MY settings and makes me jump through hoops to do do the same workflow. Updates like “ Good “ for JPEG is NOT helpful. It looks like they are just doing “busy work programming”.

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            drewm61419899
            Participating Frequently
            September 9, 2021

            I get so tired of these major changes that seem to have no user research applied before rolling out. Labeling export quality as "poor" entirely misrepresents how it's used when optimizing images for the web. Now I have clients saying "I don't want a poor quality image" and exporting at far higher values than they need that ONLY SLOW DOWN THEIR PAGE LOAD SPEEDS. Thanks for making the internet worse Adobe. 

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            J453
            Legend
            August 31, 2021

            Thanks for the feedback. The team is looking at adding back this functionality. Be sure to hit the Upvote button.

             

            As a workaround, you can enable Use legacy "Export As" under Preferences > Export

             

            Note, this option is not available on Windows ARM and Apple M1 devices.

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              Diego.capturemedia
              Participant
              August 31, 2021

              I also agree! Adobe please bring back the JPEG quality percentage! As Dan said, Photoshop is for pros and the interface doesn't need to be customized for normal users. 

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