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P: Photoshop 22.4 - Missing Save as formats from the menu

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May 13, 2021
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I just updated to the mentioned version and the formats dropdown list only shows 3 formats: Photoshop (*.PSD;*.PDD;*.PSDT), *.PSB and TIFF (*.TIF;*.TIFF).

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Correct answer Noelle Shamroukh

Hi All,

We appreciate your feedback on the recent “Save a Copy” change. To address your concerns, we have created two new options in Photoshop 22.4.2 that will enable both revert to the legacy “Save As” workflow and/or omit the addended “copy” when saving as a copy. These options can be found in the File Saving Options section under Preferences > File Handling.

To quickly summarize, you will now have the option to revert to the legacy “Save As” workflow (from before recent changes) on both macOS and Windows. Enabling this preference will make both the “Save As” and “Save a Copy” commands operate within the same “Save As” dialog box with all its previous options, including the “as a copy” checkbox. The only difference between the two commands will be whether the checkbox is automatically selected (when using “Save a Copy”). Additionally, you will now have the option to not append copy when saving a copy. On macOS, if you enable the legacy workflow, the option to not append copy will be forced ‘on’ due to the changes made in macOS 10.15 and later. On Windows, the two preferences will operate independently.

We hope these preference options will help ease some of the frustration you encountered using the new “Save a Copy” command.

Please note, reverting to the legacy “Save As” workflow may increase the risk of overwriting file names and lost work. A new dialog will pop-up warning customers of this risk when selecting either one of these preferences on macOS. On Windows, the legacy “Save As” operates in a manner that is safe, so a warning dialog will only pop-up when selecting the option to not append copy to the file name.

For more details on each preference and how they differ by platform, please see our updated new feature summary page.

Thanks,

Noelle

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Jerj

Participant

Wow thank God I ran into this thread. I've also had trouble saving in any other format and I was getting frustrated. I saw that "Save a Copy" was a new button but I didn't click it because it's not intuitive. I wish they clear that up. Or at least announce it more explicitly. Thank you to peeps who answered this!

davescm

Community Expert

It's in the release announcement

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/whats-new.html

Dave

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nikon-lynn

Inspiring

Just got off of a call with an Adobe person and they suggested using Export. I did, and it has solved 95% of my issues with this. Hopefully Adobe will still make some changes, but for right now I am OK.

DaveNeta

Participant

I could not be more frustrated. Adobe released a new version of Photoshop, and it will no longer save as PDF. I'm in the middle of a major publishing job. What am I supposed to do?

Adobe didn't even give us a warning or a choice. VERY bad!

Sahil.Chawla

Adobe Employee

Hi there,

This is not a bug in the application, it’s a new workflow for saving files through Photoshop designed by the developers. You may share your feedback here directly with our product team here: https://feedback.photoshop.com/conversations/photoshop/save-as-formats-have-disappeared-photoshop-224/60a034d6e077c600a462ba23

You may also check more information about what's new in the latest update of Photoshop here: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/whats-new/2021-4.html

Regards,
Sahil

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geigreg

Inspiring

This really screws up my workflow. I process hundreds of images daily and Save As to a pdf file and now I have to manually remove the appended "copy" tag at the end of the file before saving. Seems minor but when you are processing hundreds of images it adds up. We should be able to Save As to any format we want.

CMD42187

Participating Frequently

I also save all my photoshop files as Photoshop PDFs vs PSDs and this new Save As Copy thing is a massive waste of time. Previous posters have said that "Save As" now lists only the formats that support all the current properties of the file, thus preserving all your work, but Photoshop PDFs do preserve your work (at least from my experience they do- all layers etc are all preserved). I'm really hoping they change this soon or I'm going to be sticking with 22.3.1 forever, which is a shame.

davescm

Community Expert

PDFs can preserve your work but may not depending on the choices you make in the following dialogues (e.g. Editability, downsampling etc). So PDF is placed in Save a Copy.

Dave

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Karla5C68

Participant

I am working on the posts of my work in PS, I just update today, but I can't save in JPG or PNG format, and I have to save on that formats

Ged_Traynor

Community Expert

Hi

Adobe have change how the Save As function works in version 22.4, so assuming you're on that version take a look here.

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/whats-new/2021-4.html

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Haluki

Participant

Save as formats gone! painful to use copy as dialog... just added layer of work for me.

I downgraded back to earlier version life is better.

Please give us incremental numbering saving option.

Community Expert

Participant

Hi all,

The latest update changed the save as feature and now I have to constantly go to the new "Save as Copy",separate menu to save my files. It's hampering my productivity and is redundant. Is there anyway to revert to the old way where it was simply a check box?

ROB!@#$

Participant

Fix the new 'Save As' and STOP the add '.copy' to the end of a file - WE WANT TO OVERWRITE FILES!!

we dont want to waste time with clicking 3 more times to do something as simple as save a file!

Some of us do this all day everyday - hundreds of times a day and your making our life hell !

I dont care about the APPLE OS or any other thing that you idiots post as a work aorund - Ive been doing this since Photoshop version 2 and NEVER has there been an extra 3 steps to save a JPG or any other sort of file. This is disgrace and complete and utter crap and the biggest waste of my day. What you have dione to photoshop is hobble this product, its ruined.

I dont want to make short cuts and quick keys as we use 10 macs here and i have enough keyboard commands on my head already. adding another 2 clicks to the basic function of saving a file adds another waste of time.

D Fosse

Community Expert

So now Adobe made Photoshop operation worse for both Mac and Windows users. If you use layers in your work flow you can no longer save an original jpeg file. You can save a copy of something the does not exists. A dumb change for sure. Adobe need a brain transplant. Adobe needs new management.

Come on, JJ, you can do better than this! You've been around for a while.

"If you use layers in your work flow you can no longer save an original jpeg file."

You know a file with layers cannot possibly be "an original jpeg". You know this. You know it's a copy and has to be, and why it has to be a copy.

You know the API that allowed stripping "-copy" has been removed since Catalina. Do you still believe there was anything Adobe could do about that? What do you think they should do?

kellyw56709958

Participant

Yesterday i could save as PDF and now i can't - is this a bug or was it done on purpose?

davescm

Community Expert

Since 22.4, if your file contains items that are not supported in your required format (e.g. layers or 16 bits/channel or hidden pixels etc) then the file format is moved to the Save a Copy command. This was driven by changes in the Mac Operating System, although the changes are applied to both Mac and Windows versions to keep them aligned.
In the case of PDF it will appear in Save a Copy as the dialogues that follow allow elements of the file to be lost (e.g. downsampling or not keeping editability)

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/whats-new.html

Dave

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

How often do you estimate you have posted that information in the last couple of days?

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chipshotz.com

Participating Frequently

Version 22.4

OS- Windows 10 64 bit

The files aren't too large, the image is 8 bit, and the only save-as options I get are .PSD, .PSB and .TIF unless I flatten the image. I also recently had problems with PS recognizing my graphics processor- Nvidia GeForce GTZ 1660 Super- until the 22.4 update.

Ged_Traynor

Community Expert

Hi

The way the Save As function works in version 22.4 has changed, more info

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/whats-new/2021-4.html

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chipshotz.com

Participating Frequently

Understood. But I don't want to save a copy of my image, I want to replace the original jpeg image, one that I may have added to layers to (curves,etc.) but want to save as a jpeg.

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Haraer5E7B

Participant

Suddenly today i can't save any file to JPEG

same file was ok yesterday but today all i see is three option (save as)

i can't save from PSD to JPEG (same for all the files wont save) (the files is 8bits - RGP - Not larg)

but if i flattned the image it will be ok

can someone help please

davescm

Community Expert

Since v 22.4, if your file contains items that are not supported in your required format (e.g. layers or 16 bits/channel, hidden pixels) then the file format is moved to the Save a Copy command. This was driven by changes in the Mac Operating System, although the changes are applied to both Mac and Windows versions to keep them aligned.

What's new in Photoshop

Dave

russs1073

Participating Frequently

Thanks, @davescm I found this last night, although I had a workaround with Export - Export as..

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