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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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Cory5ED9

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Wow,

Another bemusing, obnoxious decision stuffed down the gullet. This had me scratching my head for the last 45 minutes when suddenly I could no longer quickly edit and resave files out in whatever format I feel necessary.
Why in God's name is there an additional step to save images out now? What could possibly be the reasoning behind this nonsense? What. Are. You. Bozos. Thinking? This is quite frankly, a stupid decision. I don't want this. Nobody wants this. Cut it out.

JJMack

Community Expert

Adobe programming development management is doing a poor job. While upper management is occupied enjoying their life styles. Junk get designed in and many bugs are delivered to Adobe customers. Users here are not Bozos we are in your boat are you a Bozo

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brucem41537316

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Opening a PSD that was made prior to update only gives me the option to save as a PSD, Large Format or Tiff when in RGB.

Ged_Traynor

Community Expert

Hi

Take a look at this thread, Adobe has changed how the save as function works in version 22.4

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop/version-22-4-0-quot-save-as-quot-formats-have-disappeared/td-p/12034909

J2kLarsonite

Inspiring

LOL, how pathetic! To bad Adobe doesn't have the brains Apple has... Such a disapointment to be forced to change this process.

JJMack

Community Expert

The problem seems to be related to the new feature save a copy changed the old save as feature. Adobe must want users to use new feature. So old Save as has been changed so you must use save a copy what wrong with adding in an extra step here. You use save as to get to save a copy.

JJMack

raindog308

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UGH! Amazing Adobe is still fumbling this.

When I go to "Save a copy..." it apparently never occurred to the Adobians that I might want to save File.PSD as File.PNG or File.JPG.

So now every time I "Save a copy..." I have to mouse up to the file name and manually remove the word " copy" in the file name.

Who the heck wants THAT?

Just brain dead design.

chanaart

Community Expert

On windows you need to make sure you have see all document format on.

Try it and let us know!!!

JJMack

Community Expert

"On windows you need to make sure you have see all document format on. "

Where is that setting is that some new setting in 22.4?

JJMack

Mike_Gondek10189183

Community Expert

If you had Image >> mode >>32 bits/channel you get a similar reduction in option.

Try seeing if you need to switch to 8 bit.

JJMack

Community Expert

If you flatten you may see more options. Photoshop 22.4 has a big problem updating its floating image even though photoshop has updated the document correctly on my widows workstation. For minimizing the window and reopening the window will show the operation Photoshop correctly. The windows content will correctly updated. Photoshop 22.4 is less usable then 22.3.1 what is going on at Adobe with program development?

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Conrad_C

Community Expert

This is probably not a bug. According to the release notes for this version (22.4), Save As now only provides formats that “preserve your work” (which I think means formats supporting full Photoshop layers and features). Formats not preserving Photoshop layers have been moved to Save a Copy.

For convenience, a Save a Copy button was added to Save As, as shown below. If you click the (i) button shown, you get a message explaining what happened, and a More Info button leading to the Adobe help article that explains the same thing as my screen shot below.

Why did they do this? There had been some long-standing Save As bugs, I can think of one involving macOS 10.15 Catalina and later, and what I understand is that the only practical (safe) way to fix those bugs was by re-coding Save As in this way.

JJMack

Community Expert

For convenience, an extra step was added to save as for formats were remove from save as or you can learn to remember and use a new shortcut Alt+Ctrl+S the new feature save a copy. Why does Adobe keep changing users work flow adding new interfaces that add no real new function Save as could always save a copy and it still can via click and extra dialog, What seem to be new is we now have a interface that can save image file like Save as could with copy added to the docyment name you can even remove the copy the file name in the Save copy dialog and get the same prompt you got in old save as do you want to replace the file. The new function we get is copy added to the document name in the Save Copy dialog so now save as can add copy to the document name through save a copy WOW.

If I use save or delete the opend file how does this save as change protect my work my work has been changed or delered

"According to the release notes for this version (22.4), Save As now only provides formats that “preserve your work” Pure "BS"

How does not supporting other file formats protect my work? What protect my work from my mistakes? If Adobe wants to presserve my work they need to record and log all that I do. Removing fle format support from save as does not preserv work recording work can.

JJMack

D Fosse

Community Expert

First line - "Convenience" and "extra step" are antithetical in nature... Command + Save to overwrite a PS file was way way more convenient. Not to mention the time we have to all spend now in this forum to find out what the hell is going on. #wasteoftime

Yes, we all understand that, the problem is that it wasn't possible any more due to changes in MacOS.

This was changed because the Save As jpeg function had already been broken for over a year on the Mac side, since Catalina. Saving over a jpeg resulted in a separate file with "-copy" appended. Apple removed the API (application programming interface) that allowed Photoshop to strip "-copy" from the filename. The Save As jpeg function was rendered useless by this and had to be totally rewritten.

This is not a bug, but a deliberate policy from Apple.

Platform parity has always been important in Photoshop, for the sake of actions, plugins, tutorials and so on. So it had to be changed in the Windows version as well, even though it never was a problem on Windows. But it may well be in the future, if Microsoft adopts the same policy.

jane-e

Community Expert

Hi @Samuel5DFB

The formats that are available to you all support layers, so without seeing more of your screen, I suspect it has to do with that.

Does your image have layers?
When you did a save as, is layers checked or unchecked?

If you you don't see this, then show two screen shots:

Layers panel
Entire Save As dialog

Hope this helps,

~Jane

Ged_Traynor

Community Expert

Hi Jane

I can confirm this bug, along with another in version 22.4, what is Adobe doing 😮

P: 3D feature issue in Photoshop 22.4

Version 22.4

Version 21.2.8

jane-e

Community Expert

Hi @Ged_Traynor ,

Before Adobe made this change, angry folks were posting in October 2019:

"If I make changes to a file then try to save over the .png file it keeps saving as filename-copy.png. I am not able to unselect the "Save as a copy" box."
"Same! It's making me crazy! In this case a dialog box should never even pop up, should just save over the original where it lives and yet I hit save and a dialog opens taking me to some random folder and even the warning button "do you wan to replace original?" I click yes and it STILL makes a ... copy!"
Lots more here and in other threads:
Saving as Copy instead of Overwriting: PS 2020 with macOS Catalina [locked]

Adobe solved the issue by changing the dialog box. Are people happy? No, of course not. 😊

~ Jane

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