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How to Change the Default Save As to Tiff

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January 31, 2022
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After the latest update, every time I do a Save As... it now defaults to a dialogue box that wants to save to the cloud and as a PSD file. I prefer to always save to my computer as a Tiff file. Is there a way to make that the default? I looked through the preferences, but didn't see any option for that.

Windows

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Correct answer giP17213482

Save As only remembers the previous save format and cannot be changed to .tif as the default.

By @Earth Oliver

Mine doesn't even do that. Every time I do a Save As... it pops up with the same dialogue box asking defaulting to save in the cloud and defaulting to PSD format.

I hated that dialog! Go to "File Handling" preferences and change "Default File Location" to "On Your Computer."

Jeff Arola

Community Expert

One last suggestion is to reset the photoshop preferences that may have been corrupted during the last update and see if that

makes a difference.

In photoshop go to Edit>Prerences>General, click Rest Preferences on Quit and restart photoshop.

SK321Author

Inspiring

Gave that a shot, but no luck.

Bojan Živković11378569

Community Expert

Perhaps simple action can do the trick? You can assing keyboard shortcut to play action.

SK321Author

Inspiring

Perhaps simple action can do the trick? You can assing keyboard shortcut to play action.

By @Bojan Živković11378569

Good idea. I'll give that a try.

Jeff Arola

Community Expert

That must be happening because the file you have open was already saved to the "cloud"

See if creating a new document and doing a save as makes any difference.

SK321Author

Inspiring

That must be happening because the file you have open was already saved to the "cloud"

See if creating a new document and doing a save as makes any difference.

By @Jeff Arola

Nope. Haven't saved any to the cloud.

Jeff Arola

Community Expert

You can go Edit>Preferences>General, click on Reset All Warning Dialogs, then on your next save as you should get a dialog where you can select cloud or computer as the destination for your saves and then click Don't show again.

SK321Author

Inspiring

That did it. Thank you very much.

SK321Author

Inspiring

Well, I spoke too soon. After closing Photoshop and later re-opening it to work on a new photo, I got this dialogue box when doing Save As...

When I choose On your computer it once again defaults to a PSD file.

Earth Oliver

Legend

There's no way to change this behavior in Photoshop and it's a feature we've been requesting for decades. I don't know why Adobe refuses to change the mess that is Save As, but after decades of asking, most of us have just given up.

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DaveJCummings

Community Expert

I forgot about it the past few years since I work so much on my iPad Pro.

Bojan Živković11378569

Community Expert

You have Do not show again in dialogue that offers cloud and your computer save. Once you save TIFF it should remain default for next savings until you change it again.

It works for me on Windows using 23.1.1 Ps version.

SK321Author

Inspiring

Really? I don't remember seeing that. I'll look again when I'm in front of my computer.

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