Removing the "Save As" File Format Options Ruined My Childhood, How Dare They!!!

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June 11, 2021
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My first post here, I'm a Windows user. Is there anyway they can return this? My life has been unbearable since they removed it. I spend hours flipping through folders finding where to "Export As" or "Quick Save As" when I switch from one project to another. Do they not realize people work on more than one project at a time these days?

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Correct answer gener7

With the release of 22.4.2, Photoshop has allowed the option for the legacy Save As...

https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/photoshop/using/saving-images.html#revert-legacy-save-option

D Fosse

Community Expert

"Rather than act as it has across applications on all computers for decades"

What? Where did you find that? Who is Jaron Schneider? He has absolutely no idea what he's talking about - or he deliberately distorts the facts. Here are the real facts:

1. No other application on the planet can directly save out a jpeg from complex data (16 bit, layers, transparency etc.). You have to launch a full Export.

2. Photoshop added this functionality in CS5 in 2010. Prior to that, it was not possible, anywhere.

3. The whole question is moot if the file already satisfies the jpeg specification (flat, 8 bit etc). Any application, including Photoshop in all versions, can save a jpeg in that case.

See, this is what we have to deal with. People believe what they want to believe, without bothering to check the facts.

Povich5000Author

Inspiring

here's the link to the article referenced in my post...

https://petapixel.com/2021/05/18/photoshops-save-as-function-has-changed-on-mac-heres-why/

D Fosse

Community Expert

Ah, so that's the petapixel piece everybody's talking about, I haven't read it. Well, it doesn't exactly help when it starts right off with gross misinformation.