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October 19, 2021
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Get Rid of Separate Save a Copy, Save As Implies a Copy

  • October 19, 2021
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I've never understood why "Save a Copy" ever had to be separate.  In what world would I ever want my JPG save to overwrite my PSD?  Also, if I've selected to "Save As" doesn't that imply that I want to save my file AS a different file type or name?  Wouldn't this, by definition, a copy?  This individual option as NEVER made sense to me, and it's so much more infurating that it is now a dedicated save option that I HAVE to select if I want to export as any kind of compressed format like JPG or PNG.  Absolutely ridiculous.  My muscle memory for ctrl+shift+s is completely worthless now for 99% percent of my saving.

 

Apparently there's an option to enable the legacy save as...cool...fine...but these really should NEVER have been separate options.  If I'm "Saving As" I'm already making a copy...the copy is implied...

I get the feeling there's one old engineer who is dying on this sword, or it's some old legacy code that Adobe engineers can't get rid of.  Either someone is holding onto the past, or they the developers are unable to moove on...it's ridiculous...no other creative app handles files saving in this manner.  By trying to make it more intuitive, you made it clunkier.

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    if_krystian
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    May 13, 2022

    100% agree with everything you've said in this thread. Dumb move, makes like more difficult.

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    if_krystian
    Participant
    May 13, 2022

    life*

    John Waller
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    John WallerCommunity Expert
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    October 19, 2021
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    I've never understood why "Save a Copy" ever had to be separate.

     

    Save A Copy: saves the document under a new name, but the original stays open for editing, not the new one. 

    Save As: You save the document under a new name, and the new file stays open for editing.

     

    See if this discussion from the Premiere Pro forums adds any light

    https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/faq-when-to-use-quot-save-a-copy-quot-or-quot-save-as-quot-and-when-to-simply-use-quot-save-quot/td-p/11071284

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      VulGerrityAuthor
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      October 19, 2021

      Okay, totally fair, and I'll admit I've used it as such, but for over a decade photoshop has defaulted to saving compressed formats "As A Copy."  If I'm saving as a JPG, why would I want to continue to work on the compressed file?  It really just doesn't make any sense to remove it as an option from the "Save As" context menu.

       

      I've never checked "Save a Copy" when Saving As a PSD, nor have I ever unchecked "Save a Copy" when saving to a compressed format.

       

      I repeat, no other creative software handles file saving in this manner.  That's not even to mention "Export As."  Sure, other creative software will handlle ALL compressed/rendered output as an export, so then why are a multitude of formats listed under Save As and Save a Copy if I also have Export?

      All I'm saying is it's totally unintutive.  I know they all have their use cases, but I feel like they were trying to make it easier to use/understand by making Save a Copy separate, but it's just made an already bloated save/export system worse.

      I can only imagine there's some weird outdated print workflow that requires these features to still exist.

      SG...
      Adobe Employee
      SG...
      Adobe Employee
      October 19, 2021

      Hi, You may find this post useful:
      https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/p-save-as-formats-have-disappeared-photoshop-22-4/m-p/12097649#M551308

       

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