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vvv---vvv
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February 1, 2025
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Re: Cannot save photos as jpg with new V24.0

  • February 1, 2025
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Renewing the topic. Very easy (in previous Photoshops) to save a file as jpgs. Now impossible to do it FAST. I want JPG 12 (the biggest quality). Action for it. Actions gone totally stupid, they are not able to memorize the name! So it takes the name from different pictures! Unusable! I must save many (hundreds) files as jpgs. Once easy task, now for ages. Actions won't help. How to do it and safe the highest possible quality (12)? Export enables only 7. Thanks for any tip and thanks Adobe for ruining the possibilites of standard work!!!! 😞  😞 😞 

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    D Fosse
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    D FosseCommunity Expert
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    February 1, 2025
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    safe the highest possible quality (12)? Export enables only 7.


    By @vvv---vvv

     

    Export 7 = Save 12.

     

    Export uses a different encoding engine with fewer discrete steps from lowest to highest. Save For Web uses an older engine with as much as 100 steps. How many steps are practically useful is up for debate, since you can't precisely predict file size anyway, that depends on image content.

     

    Save For Web can be actioned. If you assign an F key that's as fast as it gets. Export still doesn't work in actions.

     

    BTW, just so it's said, "maximum" quality jpeg is still destructive and degrading the original file. For most practical purposes it pays to go down a few steps, which considerably reduces file size, with little or no immediately visible difference.

      vvv---vvv
      vvv---vvvAuthor
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      February 1, 2025

      It's completely different value when you want to use ICC profiles etc. Really. I cannot use this kind of compression, whereas I could easily used standard "previous" type of default compression for jpg saved from INDD. ... 

      jane-e
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      jane-eCommunity Expert
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      February 1, 2025

       

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      How to do it and safe the highest possible quality (12)?

      By @vvv---vvv

       

      You replied to a thread from 2022 about version 24.0. Things have changed and the issue has been fixed.


      When Apple made changes to the API and broke the Save As in Photoshop, the developers were left to find a fix.
      As of 22.4.1, you can find png, jpg, pdf, etc., in Save a Copy.
      As of 22.4.2 you can revert to the previous behavior in Preferences > File Handling > File Saving Options:

      • Enable Legacy Save As
      • Do not append Copy to filename


      https://petapixel.com/2021/05/18/photoshops-save-as-function-has-changed-on-mac-heres-why/ 

      Jane

       

       

        vvv---vvv
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        February 1, 2025

        Thank you, but it's not the answer I am looking for. I don't care about the world "copy" in the name of the file. I need to save many files as jpgs, which I can do easily by Actions. But not in the New Photoshop. The New Photoshop is not able to assing the name of the file to the file! You can try it an you will see. So when I do the action for "save as" to make a .jpg file (I really don't care if it's only "save" or "save as"), it uses the name of the file which was used in the first file while I am recording the action! Trully. Unbeliavable! So I can't do the action for saving files as jpgs. For saving, let's say at about 500 files like this. How to do it? How you do it? Manually? I don't believe... Thank you for any advice how to do an easy task which was very common and simple till the late years. 

         
        c.pfaffenbichler
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        c.pfaffenbichlerCommunity Expert
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        February 1, 2025

        • The » copy« in the filename would hardly seem like a problem when processing 500 files because one could just rename the whole bunch afterwards in one go (either in Bridge or OS). 

        • Processing multiple files is often quite conveniently done with Image Processor or Image Processor Pro. 

        • For more »serious« processing needs Scripts are more convenient anyway, the copies can be saved into Folders with a relative position to the layered files and additional naming conventions like numbering et al. 

         

        What is your actual scenario? 

        Do you work on layered files and need to save jpg-copies off of those? 

        Do you work on jpgs and want to resave them even though you introduced Layers or other jpg-impossible features? 

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