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xyso35201
xyso35201
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May 22, 2018
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Photoshop CC 2018 (and earlier versions) asks to Save again right after a Save As

  • May 22, 2018
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Hi all,

I have a question and I believe it may have already been answered in an earlier post (from years ago, actually) but now all this time has passed and it's still the exact same "problem". (In quotes because it may not be considered a problem by some folks, just a small inconvenience) However, if you're a photographer/artist/etc and are doing many, many saves throughout a workday, it's more than a small inconvenience)

What happens is, after I do a Save As (.jpg), then start to close Photoshop it immediately asks me to save again, even though no changes have been made.

The answer at one of the earlier posts suggested turning off Generator and it apparently solved the problem for some but had no effect for me. BTW, it's turned off by going to Edit > Preferences > Plug-Ins > and remove the checkmark from Enable Generator which is in the "Generator" section.

I imagine that for some who use the (very useful) Generator feature, this is completely unacceptable, SO there was an alternative "fix" which DID work for me.

Evidently what's happening is that you have done a Save As on an image (like I said, .jpg in my case) that has Layers and the image has not been Flattened. (Layer > Flatten Image). I started making sure every image was Flattened before I Save(d) As and, sure enough, no more "saving twice, "double saving" or whatever you may call it.

If I want to save an image which I want to retain the Layers in, I simply save as a Photoshop .psd file.

My question is, if a person is saving as a .jpg, which should have no layers once outside of Photoshop, why does Photoshop not recognize this instead of asking you to save again even though you have just saved?

Like I mentioned, some fixes mentioned on another post were accomplished by turning off Generator, but not for all. I just Flatten my images before saving if I'm saving as a .jpg, which is still two clicks too many when saving a couple of hundred files a day. (Click Layers > Flatten Image > File > Save As > JPEG instead of File > Save As > JPEG.

Any ideas on how to always be able to Save As a .jpg and have it automatically flattened and Photoshop recognize it as such?

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D Fosse
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D FosseCommunity Expert
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May 22, 2018

xyso35201  wrote

after I do a Save As (.jpg), then start to close Photoshop it immediately asks me to save again, even though no changes have been made.

That's because the original, with all its file properties, is still open. The jpeg is a branched out copy.

This happens because jpeg is an extremely limited file format that supports virtually nothing. So all that data just gets thrown out when you save out a jpeg copy.

Photoshop is trying to protect you from yourself

    xyso35201
    xyso35201Author
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    July 27, 2018

    Hi D Fosse,

    Thanks for your reply. As little as jpeg (.jpg) may be limited to, it's still the most popular file format in the world, used for virtually all photos. Although it does lose information during the .jpg compression (regarding the image itself) it still retains a tremendous amount of metadata in case you later need to check time and date, camera used, focal length, etc.

    Not the most popular for editing, of course, since Photoshop's native .psd format saves ALL the information, edits, layers, etc. with no loss of anything at all.

    As for my original question, they say you can get used to anything and apparently I have done so. Images must be flattened (Layer > Flatten Image) if you want to avoid being asked to save an image twice by Photoshop. By "save twice" of course I mean that you "Save" or "Save As" the photo then when you start to close Photoshop, even though nothing further has been done to the image, you are asked if you want to save changes before quitting. "Flatten Image" prevents this.

    I mentioned maybe there was a feature I was missing whereas Photoshop would know to Flatten during the initial Save since it was a .jpg and couldn't hold layer information anyway but evidently not. Layer > Flatten Image seems to be the only way to do it.

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