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August 9, 2022
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How can I create a shortcut or action to save as JPG

  • August 9, 2022
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I use Lightroom Classic and Photoshop CS6.  When I press Ctrl-E in Lightroom and choose "edit a copy with Lightroom adjustments" there is no format option (I selected TIF rather than PSD when setting up the external editor). And the problem is that when I want to save in Photoshop the default is TIF not JPG so each time I have to select JPG.

So my question is how can I create an action in PS or set up a shortcut which will make JPG the default. The problem is that I need to save many versions of each photo so I don't want an action that will overwrite with the same name. Ideally the action would stop at the point where I can still edit the filename (so just before pressing "Save") but when I tried this I could not stop recording the action at this point.

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Earth Oliver
Legend
August 12, 2022

A gentle reminder that 6 or 7 years after its introduction, Export As can still not be added as an Action.

Adobe, FIX THIS!

D Fosse
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 9, 2022

If the file is finished in Lightroom you can Export directly to jpeg there.

 

Jpeg can never be a Save default in Photoshop, because the jpeg format specification lacks support for almost anything you can do to a file in Photoshop. A jpeg will in all but a few special cases be a copy with discarded properties.

 

The jpeg format does not support 16 bit depth, layers of any kind, transparency, or alpha channels.

 

However, you can set up an action that saves a copy to jpeg. If you assign an F key it's just a single keystroke. But before you do, you need to decide what to do with the full original with all properties intact.

nickc7863073作成者
Participant
August 10, 2022

Thank you D Fosse for this. But to be clear I am talking about the Save As command.  When I used Photoshop CS3 and Lightroom 5 I could opt to edit externally in Photoshop as JPG (for some reason Lightroom Classic CC doesn't give me a JPG option for external editing, only TIF or PSD).  And then when I wanted to "Save As" from Photoshop the default format was always JPG.  The problem is I need to save many versions of each photo I edit and now each time I go to Save As the default is TIF and I have to change it which is very tiresome.  I tried setting up an action but it is impossible to stop recording the action until the file is saved ie after I have amended the filename.  So I can have an action to save a copy as, say, xxxxV1.jpg but I need to save several versions of the same photo so I would need a separate action for xxxxV1.jpg, xxxxV2.jpg, xxxxV3.jpg  etc.    Perhaps I should explain that the photos are for various news sites which require different watermarks, dimensions, etc.   

Rob_Cullen
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 11, 2022

"edit externally in Photoshop as JPG (for some reason Lightroom Classic CC doesn't give me a JPG option for external editing, only TIF or PSD)."

You can 'send' a file to Ps as a JPG (to edit in Ps as a JPG).

But to do this you need to create a Preset for Ps as an External Editor in the 'Additional External Editor' panel-

 

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.1.1, Photoshop 27.3.1, ACR 18.1.1, Lightroom 9.0, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.2 .