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David 66
David 66
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April 9, 2022
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Can we no longer save a Photoshop document as a template?

  • April 9, 2022
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Hi all. I have researched this and seen all kinds of answers, but nothing seems to work. In the old days you could save a Photoshop file as a template. This prevented you from opening the document again, making changes, accidentally pressing command S and overwriting the original template (pressing command S always forced you to do a save as and rename the document ).

 

I'm on a new iMac, using Photoshop 2022, but have noticed this issue in Photoshop versions during the last few years. Per other discussions I changed the extension in the finder by adding a "T" to PSD, but it always reverts back to PSD, and pressing command S saves the document. 

 

Is the "save as a template" option a bygone feature of old Photoshop versions?

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    J
    J453
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    April 10, 2022

    I'm seeing the behavior that Jane is seeing, having a .psdt.psd double extension, in some prior versions of the app (2019). The current version of Photoshop, 23.2.2, the file saved correctly with just the .psdt extension.

     

    If I change the extension in the macOS finder to .psdt - and accept the changes when the OS warns about changing the extensions, it opens correctly as an untitled document.

     

    I do have file extensions and show warning for changing extension shown in the finder enabled:

     

      davescm
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      davescmCommunity Expert
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      April 9, 2022

      It still works in Windows. The document saves as xxxxx.psdt. On opening and editing Ctrl+S opens Save As dialogue.

      I can't test on a Mac here though so will tag @jane-e who I know uses Macs

       

      Dave

       

      David 66
      David 66Author
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      April 9, 2022

      Thank you, Dave.

      Of course, I just remembered you can save the document size as a "preset" on the welcome window. But it's not the same thing if you want guides or maybe a background image set as the default.

      davescm
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      davescmCommunity Expert
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      April 9, 2022

      I agree a preset is not as versatile. Let's hope Jane or another Mac user can test and confirm whether psdt is available to them

      Dave

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