How do change the default "Save As" from PSD to JPG?

Could not find a solution to this annoying problem either. What I did to make things a little easier:

- menu Edit/Keyboard shortcuts

- search for: Layer/Flatten image and assign a hotkey. I assigned CTRL-F (which was defaulted to 'Last Filter', which I hardly use)

Now when I want to save an opened JPG file as JPG again without the 'Save as' dialogue, I use CTRL-F, CTRL-S.

I just about had a panic attack trying to figure this out.  I called Adobe and everything but they were no help.

This may not be anyone else's problem but ALL I had to do was check the "delete cropped pixels" box at the top of the window, as someone mentioned before.

That's it.

None of the above helped me with a similar issue. At one time I needed a PDF, so I saved an image as a Photoshop PDF (not PSD) using Photoshop 2015. Since that time PDF is ALWAYS the default. I can drag files to open them, unlock the background, flatten them, select all and copy/past to a new document, convert them to 8 bit, hold my tongue in my left cheek, cross my fingers. The save default is always PDF.

This default applies to all document types I open, PSD, PDF, TIFF, JPEG, PNG.....

I have done the save with a combination of keys. Command, Shift, Option, Command-Option, Command-Option-Shift, Command-shift, Option-Shift. Still have PDF as the default.

I am on a Mac with 10.10.5.

This might help some people with this issue...

I discovered that if you drag & drop images into Photoshop to open them, it treats them as a new layer (i.e. 'Layer 0' instead of 'Background'). This means that Photoshop will try to save it as a .PSD file.

If you open images using the File -> Open method, they retain their single-layer properties and Photoshop will try to save them in their original file format.

Pretty quirky behaviour if you ask me but glad I found the solution in the end!

Use CMD in CTRL...the other must be the same

Just next time you gonna save it press CTRL+SHFT+S then press and hold ALT and while you hold it down choose the format you want and then save it...next time it will be done...The KEY to the whole case is the "ALT"

Late to the party as ever, but I've been having this problem recently and I've identified one cause which hopefully will help some others.  Usually Save-as defaults to JPEG, but if I bring a file into Photoshop from ACR with the Workflow Options (accessed at the middle bottom of the ACR screen) set to 16 bit, then Save-as will default to PSD.  Change it to 8 bit first, then it'll default to JPEG and you also won't get asked if you want to save the changes to the original when you close.  It's not often I take a JPEG through ACR so my ACR defaults are set to open my raw files as 16 bit when taking them into Photoshop.

I too have been trying to solve this, been copying about 1000 photo album pages, JPEG  saved straight from camera, all I'm doing is cropping the image, yet it wants to save it as a "Photoshop" file every time.

Looking at the "layers" menu, only the original "layer 0" is visible, yet flattening the image results in the "save as" command reverting to JPEG. Actually finding it quicker to flatten the image rather than change to JPEG at the save stage, though I know that's not the answer.

I can't recall this happening on CS5 ( using CS6 on a mac) Surely there's got to be a simple "fix"?

Thanks in anticipation.

Some of the posters up in this thread implied that this is a problem and/or is somehow not logical (yes, I know some of the posts are old).

That's not the case.  There actually is rhyme and reason.  Understanding it could help you make better decisions while using Photoshop.

Photoshop has a concept that you will be working with master documents and occasionally saving copies as work products.  Conceptually a master document is saved into a file and loaded from a file so that it maintains all the features you added while editing.

So Photoshop considers that JPEG can actually house a master document IF (and only if) all the features of your document can be saved in the JPEG format.  For this to be true, the document has to be a flat single layer, 8 bits/channel, and without other things such as extra channels.  It can have paths.

Here's the logic as I understand it:

IF the last time you saved or opened the master document you're working on you saved it as a JPEG, and IF all the features currently in the document can be saved as a JPEG, your default format in the File - Save As menu will be JPEG.

If you change or add something in the document - say create a layer (or turn the Background into a layer), add a channel, or increase the bit depth to 16 - the next time you try to save it Photoshop will offer to save it in e.g., PSD format, since that format is now needed to save and re-load all the additional features of the document that you have added.  At this point, if you override the default format and change it to JPEG, you'll find the [ ] As a Copy option will be automatically be given a checkmark which you can't change, indicating you cannot save all the current document features in that format.

For brand new documents you've just created, I believe Photoshop simply checks to see if the current document can be completely saved in the last master document format you saved something else in successfully, and offers that as the default if everything about the document will "fit" in that format.  So if a few minutes ago you saved a JPEG master document, then you created a new flattened image in 8 bits/channel and now you do File - Save As, it will offer JPEG as the default choice.

Someone please correct me if I've missed anything here.

-Noel

Here is what I made because that crap annoys the hell out of me as well.

Autohotkey

#IfWinActive, ahk_class Photoshop

#SingleInstance, Force

#Persistent

SetTimer, FileType, 100

Return

FileType:

WinWait, Save As

SetTimer, FileType, Off

Control, ShowDropDown, , ComboBox2, Save As

ControlGet, CL, List, , ComboBox2, Save As

Loop, parse, CL, `n

{

    PLCT=png

    If A_LoopField contains %PLCT%

    {

        Control, Choose, %A_Index%, ComboBox2, Save As

        ControlFocus, ComboBox2, Save As

        ControlSend, ComboBox2, {enter}, Save As

        Control, HideDropDown, , ComboBox2, Save As

        WinWaitClose, Save As

        SetTimer, FileType, On

    }

}

Oh crap wrong one, my bad anywho fixed.