/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-ideas/p-ability-to-arrange-amp-customize-save-as-file-formats-so-popular-formats-are-at-the-top/idi-p/12250159Jun 25, 2011
Jun 25, 2011
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Photoshop supports about 20 formats, but I only use 4 or 5 of them. It's bugged me since 5.5 to have to fish for jpeg somewhere in the middle of the list. Can the file formats get arranged by most commonly used? And maybe allow us to remove stuff like targa and large file format that nobody uses.
I see that you tagged Actions and Scripting. You might try creating Actions or writing Scripts — one for jpeg and one for tiff. You can assign a shortcut for each to make it fast.
You also tagged iPadOS (as well as everything else) — you'll be happy to know there are only four formats to choose from in Photoshop for iPad..
This creates an opportunity for a 3rd party to fill the void. I look at what is possible from a GUI perspective with Image Processor Pro from @xbytor2 and have no doubt that this is possible.
Scripts for it were already created as workaround, now the point is Adobe can easily rebuild saving file formats panel. Alas, they don't make something that should be integral part of Photoshop from long.
11 years and counting. Adobe keeps 'borrowing' new features from competitor products which are innovating, all the while disregarding incredibly basic things which every single user has to deal with every single time they open Photoshop.
It shows that their focus is trying to get more money out of us and upgrade the Cloud plan since every now and then Photoshop will undo the offline Save As preference and nag us with the Save to Cloud. No thanks. The year is 2022, we have SSD storage and hundreds of gigabytes of it.
What's important is that they've already announced more features a la Skylum's Luminar, one-click this, one-click that.. how about one-click saving to the prefer and/or most recent filetype?
Such a vile, lazy business model... Just scrape the damn analytics data from all your users, realize that the gross majority never uses most of the formats and allow us to pick which formats to be presented with, so that when we hit 'P' to get to PNG it doesn't have to be 7 keystrokes.
/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-ideas/p-ability-to-arrange-amp-customize-save-as-file-formats-so-popular-formats-are-at-the-top/idc-p/13653828#M16820Mar 15, 2023
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I spoke too soon. I must have had channel so the number of file formats shown are less than the usual full list. And when you have the full list and type 'T' to move quickly, Targa gets selected because it's alphabetically before Tif. I take back my kudos to Adobe.
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Hello
Probably a bit of a "peculiar"request.
When I do a "save as", or "save a copy" there are so many (too many!) options of formats available. I probably use only about 10 % of those. The rest just get in the way.
Surely, there could be a preference on which formats one would like to see. Similar to the tool bar personalisation.
For 20 years I have been choosing psd, jpeg or gif. Nothing else... and I have to wade through a bunch of other file types. Could we please customize our file type list. Cheers.
Yes - did that for while then lost the actions in an upgrade and never bothered to make them again. I remember it being quite exciting because I did not need the three step saving processes - oh, this is amazing! Haha - perhaps I will recreate.
Imagine being so lazy as an industry leader that 14 years after the fact, you're still torturing each and every single Photoshop user with this all the time.
They are too busy working on incorporating AI so users can make every photograph look fake, or even worse real. Soon we won't have to take photos with cameras or phones anymore - we'll just sit at a computer and ask Photoshop to 'create' an image with our specifications. All I want to do is slightly enhance my photos because of sensor limitations, and save in just a couple of favourite formats.
I used to use Configurator 4 which was easy and intuitive and worked. I would buy Tom's app if I could afford it. I shouldn't have to learn how to use scripts - this should be included by PS. It would take one of their coders ten minutes.
@trinity_too wrote: "It would take one of their coders ten minutes."
The scripters on this forum are volunteers who do not work for Adobe. You might ask them how long it takes (subtracting the amount of time they spent learning how to write script.)
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