Save Selection As

[JMLBloodLite]

I've reciently been working with photoshop to creat pages for journals and the file image size provides wiggle room. When I get a page done I have to crop to the shape I need, then do save as (to whatever file type), and then undo back to before the crop with ever page. I was thinking if the was a Save Selection As, I could skip the cropping. Just control click a presetup block of the correct size and shape on a layer just for that and Save Selection As and just deselect.

[Ged_Traynor]

@JMLBloodLite not sure is this helps in your situation, but there is a save selection option in Photoshop

[Stephen Marsh]

@JMLBloodLite 

I appreciate that this is an "idea" or feature request. If you need this functionality now, you can copy the selection to a new layer. Right-click on the new layer and select Export As. Or copy the selection to a new file and save that file.

A custom script could be created to automate for other file formats.

[Nancy OShea]

I mainly work with original PSD files.

1. Crop and commit with Enter.

2. File > Export > Export As (PNG or JPG).

3. Export All to your preferred location.

4. Close the PSD file.  When prompted to save changes before closing, hit NO.

Hope that helps.

[Wienke]

You could save a step by making an Action that does these 4 things:

1) Image > Duplicate (safer, in my opinion, than relying on undo)

2) Load Selection (via command/control-clicking a particular alpha channel for the selection)

3) Image > Crop

4) Delete the alpha channel/s if you don't need it/them.

Then all you'd have to do is run the Action followed by SaveAs for each journal page. As long as your shape is consistently in the same alpha channel, this should work.

And thanks for making this feature request; it was only by reading these replies that I became aware of Save Selection As and Export Layer directly to transparency png, both very relevant to me.