File->Save a Copy Doesn't Give More Options

[Carol237]

Hello,

I have Photoshop 22.4, and for a while now there was a "Save a Copy" box to the right, which would allow me to save jpgs, pngs, etc. It seems to have disappeared, and there is now a bunch of boxes to check right below the file names, including "Save a Copy," which, when I check it off, doesn't give me any more format options than the same four that I don't need.

When I go to File-> Save a Copy, I get the same thing, i.e., only four choices, none of which I need.

When I go to Preferences-> File Handling-> Enable Legacy "Save As" I get the same thing.

I've read all the posts about other people's "Save As" issues, but all of the solutions seem to be in the list I gave above, that don't work for me. Amazing how many hours I can spend just trying to do what I used to do in litereally 5 seconds. Wonders of omputers.

[D Fosse]

What bit depth and color mode?

[J E L]

Hi @Carol237 These are the options I get under File > Save a Copy.

As @D Fosse asks, are you working in 32 Bits/Channel mode? If so, you will only see the following options:

[Carol237 · Accepted solution]

Thank you, so much for answeint me, @D Fosse  and @Jain Lemos.

I'm working in 8 bits/channel. And I noticed the mode was "Multichannel" (from a screenshot that I edited) in that same File->Mode menu when I went to check the bits per channel.

I changed the mode to "RGB" from "Multichannel" and everything works fine!

So thank you, @D Fosse, for asking about the bits/channel, because otherwise I never would have noticed the right problem!

Am I nuts to think that's a weird quirk?

[D Fosse]

Photoshop will save out a copy if the file structure allows it. In this case it didn't.

Multichannel is a highly specialized mode that few people ever need or have any use for.