How to lock default jpeg compression to quality 12?

[ultrachrome]

I posted about this a few years back and never got an answer but I might not have been explaining myself very well.

When I close Photoshop and reopen it, the next time I go to do a jpeg save, the compression level defaults to what it was at the last time I closed Photoshop.

For instance, if I save an image at quality 6  and shut down Photoshop...it will continue to default to 6 for all of my jpeg saves with my next session unless I manually change it for each save. If I want to change it so that it defaults to quality 12, I must save an image at quality 12 and then close Photoshop, reopen Photoshop and then all my saves will default to 12.

This is particularily frustrating if I'm running an action on mulitple images and then realize many images in, that all of my saves are at a too high of compression. So this issue also applies to saves recorded in actions. Even if an action was recored at quality 12, those saves in the actions, default to whatever the last jpeg save was the last time I closed Photoshop.

This has been the case through mulitple genrations of Photoshop on mulitple computers both Mac and PC. The last time I posted about it I was told that this wasn't actually happening or no one else could duplicate the issue so I think I might not have explained myself very well then. Hopefully this is more clear. This is happening.

I don't know if this can be changed and if not, it would at least be nice to understand the reasoning behind this behavior. 

[Greg5C17]

I wish this is how mine responded. It doesn't matter how I record it, it just sets itself to the last compression I used when saving to Jpeg. That part of the action has been trashed and recreated a dozen times to get it to remain on the compression I recorded the action at. In the end, I've changed my workflow and now do Tiff saves instead. I haven't tried this agian now for a few years

[altaan]

To lock the default JPEG compression quality to 12 (the highest quality) in image editing software like Adobe Photoshop, you can adjust the settings by following these steps:In Adobe Photoshop:Open Photoshop and load any image.Go to "File" > "Save As..." or "Export" > "Save for Web (Legacy)...".In the "JPEG Options" dialog box (if you choose "Save As..."):Set the Quality slider to 12.Make sure the Format Options are set to "Baseline (Standard)".In the "Save for Web" dialog box:Set the Quality slider to 100 (which corresponds to 12 in the standard dialog).Make sure to select "JPEG" as the format.Click "Save" to confirm the settings.

[D Fosse]

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