want to save multiple files in original format (jpg)

[b.k.pottery]

I edit multiple images for my Etsy shop at one sitting. I REALLY miss my option to save all the open files in their original formats (jpg) with one action. Now, I have to click through several options on EACH individual image to be able to save as .jpg. Surely there is a way around this??? It is terribly annoying. Thanks!

[Stephen Marsh]

To Save JPEG, the document must meet the following specification requirements:

• 8 BPC
• Flattened layers
•  No alpha channels 

Otherwise, you need to Save a Copy or have Legacy Save As enabled in your File Handling preferences/settings.

[D Fosse]

The jpeg specification does not support 16 bit depth, layers, transparency or alpha channels. If the document has any of these properties, jpeg is off the table, and you need to use Save A Copy. 

In 2010, in Photoshop CS5, Adobe introduced a hidden function in Photoshop that allowed directly saving out a jpeg copy with these properties removed, without identifying it as a copy. Until Apple pulled the plug on that in 2022 by removing the APIs that made it possible, due to new security and file integrity policies. So that function had to be removed. 

To this day, people think Adobe deliberately broke this function. In reality it was Apple.

This is actually very simple if you use actions. Just include steps to convert to 8 bit and flatten in the action.

[Conrad_C]

One possible faster alternative in Photoshop is Quick Export.

First set up Quick Export to do what you want every time: 

1. Choose File > Export > Export Preferences. 

2. Set Quick Export Format to JPG, at the Quality level you want. 

3. Set any other options in that panel the way you want, then click OK. 

You only have to set it up once, unless you want to change something.

Now, when you are ready to export any open files: 

1. Switch to the document you want to export. 

2. Choose File > Quick Export > Quick Export as JPG. 

That’s it. You don’t even have to specify settings because you did all that during setup. Quick Export is designed to just kick out the file with the Quick Export Preferences you set up.

Of course, you can make Step 2 even easier and faster by using the Quick Export keyboard shortcut instead. So all you do is switch to each document and press the keyboard shortcut shown next to File > Quick Export > Quick Export as JPG. (The only reason I didn’t state the shortcut is it can differ depending on your operating system and language, but on my Mac in the US it’s Option-Shift-Command-W.) 

Another way to bulk export to JPEG in Photoshop is to choose File > Scripts > Image Processor, select Use Open Images, and set it up for JPEG export. 

There are other ways to do bulk JPEG export in Adobe Bridge, and the documents don’t need to be open.

First, set it up: In Bridge, open the Export panel and set up a new Export preset for JPEG at the settings you want.

After setup, it’s ready to use: 

1. In Bridge, use the Folders or Favorites panel to select the folder containing the files. The files are listed in the Content panel. 

2. Drag the files you want to export, and drop them on the Export preset you set up for JPEG. 

Bridge processes the batch of files you dropped on the Export preset, and all you have to do is pick them up. 

The Workflow panel in Bridge is another option that can batch export, but it might not really be what you need for this. 

So that’s four ways to export multiple files to JPEG. (You will have a fifth and sixth way to bulk export images to JPEG if you take the JPEG images through Adobe Camera Raw or Lightroom Classic/Lightroom.)

[b.k.pottery]

That sounds like what I am trying to accomplish! I will have to give it a
try. Thank you so much!

[D Fosse]

Yes, Bridge is a good option.

So would Quick Export be - if it was possible to embed the color profile. There's still no way to do that, which renders it useless for most practical purposes.

[ExUSA]

You can also use a script/action, Image Processor, or Export although the later two will create copies instead of saving in place. A script or action can perform steps such as converting to 8 bit, flattening, and removing extra channels so that your images will support a simple Save step.

[jane-e]

...my option to save all the open files in their original formats (jpg)

By @b.k.pottery

Because no one has said it yet, resaving a jpeg is not recommended. JPEGs are lossy, meaning they irreversibly degrade images every time they are saved and closed. Best practice is to save in a lossless format such as psd or tiff, then save once to jpeg. When you need to edit, work on the original, then save once to jpeg.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lossy_compression

Jane