New "Save as copy" ruins workflow for texture artists

[Abuse removed by moderator] "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" is a phrase for a reason. This has screwed up a bunch of my actions and wasted a lot of time. Instead of screwing up functionality that works, perhaps Adobe can make their bloated software run more efficiently.

I find this change to Photoshop makes useless to me in much of my work and I can't save many of my projects as files I need. So I stopped paying for Photoshop and have find other programs to do want I need. Well one plus is it is a lot cheaper for me. 🙂

I wholeheartedly agree with this post. As a windows user, I'm sorry, but I could care less of what MacOS "forces", it should work as usual, period. These are clearly two different operating systems, and there is no reason to not simply have a toggle to allow this vaunted "parity" at the artist's discretion.

Meanwhile as a fellow 3d artist, this does nothing but get in the way, because a) I get to relearn my muscle memory which I built over years and years of using PS and b) it is just extra work from removing that useless extra word. And lastly c) it introduces a point of failure, if I ever accidentally don't remove that word, I now have two differently named textures saved and will likely wonder why my assets aren't updating after a save.

This is just.. absolutely such a small, yet particularly annoying change I want gone, and badly so. Like i said, add a toggle if copying MacOS on windows means so much to some people, but don't force something that will only make extra work and introduce potential for naming mistakes for everyone else.

You could  Programs a script that basically works like Photoshop 'Savs As" worked in the past. The script would have a different UI than  good old "Save AS"a Photoshop which used a system dialog.  The script would have a ScripUI interface quite like Adobe Script "Export Layers to Files. Save the Document in the image file format you want to save. In fact I use  code from Adobe  'Export Layer to Files' creating the script for my personal use.

Change the title in the dialog  to Save As and process the document. It will be a Plug-in Script.

I just set a shortcut for the quick export as JPG option which I guess works now. 

"Copy" appears anyway on Mac. There is no way to stop it - because it is and always was a copy. This is the change in MacOS Dave mentions.

Everybody should keep in mind that the direct save to jpeg, from 16 bit/layered files, was introduced in Photoshop CS5 in 2010. Prior to that, it was not possible at all to save directly to jpeg. First you had to remove every property in the file that wasn't supported in the jpeg specification. Only then could you save it. So this is nothing new - but this time you can use Save A Copy.

»Now every single time I need to save a jpg copy, I have to manually select the file with a mouse, or manually remove the word copy from the file name. «

You can use a Script to save the copy with the original name and assign it a keyboard shortcut. 

The changes were forced by the Mac operating system and the parity you mention was to ensure that both Windows and Mac work the same. You cannot disable it but if it really bothers you, you could make an action that flattens the image, saves as a jpeg, then steps back to the previous history state.

Dave