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How to change the default "Export As" setting?

Forum|Forum|3 years ago
August 5, 2022
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Hello,

There is something really annoying in Photoshop 2021 23.01, why every time I need to export an image, I need to change the quality from Good to Great and also change the resample from Bicubic Automatic to Preservice details, I basically need everything I save to be the best quality possible end of the story.

Now how do I change this default setting to the setting I want so I don't need to change them every time I need to save a new image?

Your help is highly appreciated.

Windows

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

If you crave high quality images for professional print purposes, use SaveAs instead of Export As.

ExportAs is for optimizing WEB images. See screenshot. Your goal on the web is to deliver maximium experience with the least amount of bandwidth. The bigger the filesize, the longer it takes to load.

If you're using highest quality, that means the bandwidth is too high. That's not good practice on the web. Some web users have slow connections & highly restrictive data plans. They won't much appreciate the longer wait time or busting their data allotment just to see an image.

Always be cordial to web users. Their experience is what matters, not yours. 😉

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

Nizar Bredan

Participating Frequently

Thank you for the quick response.

Ineed, I just found out minutes before your message that "Export As" is not suitable for printing purposes.

Quite honestly, Photoshop is making it very confusing:

- In "Export" there's an "Export as..." option and a "Save for web" option. It seemed clear to me that "Export as..." isn't meant for web, since there's a specific option for the web. Apparently that's incorrect.

- As a side note, when we "export as", there's an automatic preview that shows up, and with large files it takes WAY too long before we can even click on anything. It's horrific. And there's no way to disable the preview. I'm not the only one who thinks it's ridiculous, and there has been a thread specifically for that 11 YEARS ago in the community - nothing changed.

- In older versions, I used to just hit "Save as" and I could choose JPG as a format, even if I'm working in a PSD with multiple layers. In newer versions, we don't have the possibility to directly choose JPG from the "Save as" menu. We need to go to "Save as copy" instead. I personally do not understand the reason for this distinction, it just made things more confusing to me.

"Keep It Simple Stupid" can go a long way.

gener7

Community Expert

I think I can help you with this.

"Save for Web" is the old school or Legacy way to prepare images for the Web. It will be going away in some future version and the new method "Export as..." and "Quick Export" will take over that role.

If you want the old behavior in Save As... for Jpegs, just go into Preferences > File Handling and set it up:

Then File > Save as... should allow you to choose the jpeg quality and preserve your print ppi. (usually 300) instead of defaulting to the standard 72 or 96 web ppi that Export sets up.

Wes Jones

Participant

Go to preferences (under photoshop in menu), export. On the top bar where it says "Quicj Export Format, change it to JPG, and set quality to 7.

Nizar Bredan

Participating Frequently

I thought this made sense, but for some reason it doesn't apply these default settings when I "Export as".

@D Fosse many online printing companies don't accept anything other than JPG (and sometimes PNG), so we do need to export in JPG at the best possible quality.

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

Quick Export settings work when Quick Export is selected. Not Export As.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

Earth Oliver

Legend

Unfortunately, after 7 years or so, Export As still doesn't have many basic and essential functions... like Presets, Remember Settings, Defaults, Actionable, etc. Adobe apparently no longer understands how people use their app and they don't mind taking 10 years or more to get something right.

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~BarbaraT

Inspiring

Just here to say I have the same question. Was easy in the old "save for web", so it seems odd that isn't available in "export as..."

Earth Oliver

Legend

so why not still use Save for Web?

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~BarbaraT

Inspiring

Guess I will! Like the ability to size images (not that I need very often). Thought I would be proactive and learn the "new feature" (;

D Fosse

Community Expert

It sounds like you're on an old version, the quality slider now goes from 1 to 7.

Are you actually resizing? If not, the resampling method is moot.

And if you really want "the best quality possible", you shouldn't use jpeg at all, but PSD or TIFF. The jpeg algorithm is always destructive and the image will degrade even at max quality. The main purpose of jpeg is to reduce file size, not maintain quality. The setting is always a tradeoff between acceptable quality loss and reduced size.

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rayana16654922Author

Participant

Yes, I need the best quality using JPG, PSD is only a photoshop format, it's not useable across the web. For example, no website will let you upload a PSD file to replace a profile picture! you missed my point, my friend, I only need a quick fix for changing the default setting. Thank you for your reply.

D Fosse

Community Expert

OK, fair enough, but it was you who said "best quality possible". You didn't say what it was for.

Export/Save For Web are traditionally set up for pragmatic purposes. Maximum quality normally doesn't make much sense on the web. It's a poor tradeoff - the file size is much bigger for no immediate visual quality improvement. The dialog's purpose is to balance these two considerations.

If you need to maintain the maximum quality setting, I'd recommend Save A Copy instead.

The point about resampling method still stands. Preserve detail is for upsampling. It doesn't do anything for downsampling. You get the best result with "bicubic smoother" because it has no built-in sharpening (which you can't control), and then do manual sharpening to optimize for the size and purpose of the image.

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