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buck-w
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April 6, 2022
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Save A Copy = Stupid

  • April 6, 2022
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It's so wonderful when an upgrade makes you do 5x the work.  Now to save to different format I have to do a Save A Copy instead of the normal Save As.  So when I save to jpeg, for example, and choose a different folder, everytime I repeat it, Photoshop defaults to the folder the current image is in, not the folder I previously specified.  I takes many more keystroked and mouse clicks to do something that was so simple before.

 

Why did they do this?  The explanation is to make it more like how it behaves on a Mac.  Oh, okay.  So the Mac method was inefficient, but let's do that.  That's progress for you....I guess.

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    D Fosse
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    D FosseCommunity Expert
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    April 6, 2022

    No, that's not why they did it. They did it because a MacOS change made the old Save behavior impossible.

     

    Save A Copy was a way to get around it. Later they found a better workaround, so they could add a "legacy"-option in preferences, to basically revert to the old behavior - but with caveats about unintentional overwriting.

     

    Note that no other software on the planet can save directly to jpeg if the file has layers, 16 bit depth, transparency or alpha channels. Those things are not allowed in the jpeg specification. If the file already complies with the jpeg specification, Save works as it always has.

     

    Saving directly to jpeg was in fact introduced with some fanfare in Photoshop CS5. That's right. Before that, you couldn't save to jpeg at all, unless the file was flat/8 bit/no transparency.

     

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      buck-wAuthor
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      April 6, 2022

      I used jpeg as an example.  I have to go thru more bs for png and tiff as well.

      c.pfaffenbichler
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      c.pfaffenbichlerCommunity Expert
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      April 6, 2022
      @buck-w wrote:

      I used jpeg as an example.  I have to go thru more bs for png and tiff as well.

      Are you sure? Because tiff supports Layers. 

      c.pfaffenbichler
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      c.pfaffenbichlerCommunity Expert
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      April 6, 2022

      Have you read up on the issue? 

      Are you aware of the Photoshop > Preferences > File Handling > Enable legacy »Save As« setting? 

       

       

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        buck-wAuthor
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        April 6, 2022

        Okay.  Thanks.  I'll look into that.  How about if they don't make the software less productive and then I won't have to scamble to solve what shouldn't be happing in the first place.

         

        The Save A Copy isn't going to another folder after all, but there are other things that you have to do that I didn't mention.

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