Exporting / Saving as should be made easier and automated

[MartinDedron]

Hello.

As a photographer, I edit my pictures first in a non-adobe software, then I fine-tune my hero shots in photoshop. I need them all in both .TIF and .JPG.

The quickest way I found for that is to save them at first as .TIFF.

Then I had two options :

1.  A shortcut for quick export, but it doesn't save the best quality JPG so...
2.  Save all the TIFF and then run the batch process.

Then I have to browse through the explorer to have my images in the same folder (batch export creates one even if I select "save in the same location").

This is a long and uneffective process.

As a photographer, what I would  ideally need is being able to save in one shortcut :

- 16bits Tif

- Max quality JPEG

- Large Web JPEG

(- Small Web JPEG)

All with the EXIF ! (That's important and it somehow disappears with the batch process/quick export).

Indeed, I think we should be able to register in the software a multi-save pattern.

This would record the settings and we would just have to enter a file name and a location ; it would do the rest. Without subfolder.

If we could set up a high treshold for web images (ex: max 5mo), that would be the cherry on the cake.

Thanks for understanding.

Martin

[Derek Cross]

Export As and Save for Web are for use for saving images for the web and similar.

If you want to revert to the previous Photoshop Save As method, you can change that to legacy under the File Handling tab in preferences.

[Stephen_A_Marsh]

I understand that this is an idea/feature request. While waiting for a feature that may never appear, you can look into the Image Processor Pro script, which can save up to 10 sets of images with different settings.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/ps-scripts/files/Image%20Processor%20Pro/v3_2%20betas/

An action could do this, however, the save location would always be the same.

Another option is a custom script, however, more specific info would be required.

[D Fosse]

Actually this isn't hard to do with actions. Editing an action step is just a double-click away. Assign an F-key, and send them on their way. And you can have nested actions.

Files for output are never saved anyway, the master is still there, so I send them all to an "outbox" folder on my desktop, which I flush at intervals. No reason to make this more complicated than it needs to be.

[MartinDedron]

Thank you. I will check this out.

[MartinDedron]

Let's say , I have 12 folders divind my photographs into main series. Would you create a generic action and then change the path to the right folder every time?

The easiest would be to able to include a pop-up asking for the path. And then saving as I want.

[Stephen_A_Marsh]

An action modal control should allow you to change the save location on the fly:

https://helpx.adobe.com/au/photoshop/using/creating-actions.html#change-settings