How can I make jpeg the default save from raw files? Right know it keeps saving as psd.

[Porcelain.Street]

Hi. I would like to change the default save format to jpg after editing a raw file. Right now psd is in there as the default and I have to go to the drop-down and choose jpg each and every time. I'd like to make jpeg the default. I used to have CS6 until I lost it due to operating system "upgrade" and it always defaulted to jpg. Thanks. 

[D Fosse]

Read the post directly above yours. That's why.

[Stephen Marsh]

omg I don't understand why this is so complicated!  All we want to do is save a jpg we've opened as a jpg without having to deal w a drop-down menu!  Like we've all been doing for more than a decade now!

By @CLCLOWER2008

Does the file currently conform to the requirements of the JPEG specification (flattened - no layers, 8 bpc, no alphas)? Do you have legacy Save As enabled in your preferences for file handling?  Did Photoshop save the JPEG previously, or was the JPEG created by other software?

[Stephen Marsh]

It should be mentioned that ACR can directly output one or a batch of multiple raw files to various file formats, including JPEG - without having to open the images into Photoshop.

[garym26348778]

I open a file in ACR, do my conversions, then open straight to photoshop, do more edits/crop etc. then save as.  It defaults to psd. 

I recently discovered that my ACR was set to open the image in photoshop as 16bits.  Jpgs don't do 16bits and so photoshop won't default to jpg. 

I changed my ACR to default to open my image in PS as 8 bits and now save as defaults to jpg.