Saving a JPEG in Photoshop has changed

Wednesday 19 May 2021, 20:02 by Nando Harmsen | 23,305 views | 0 comments

This article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.

With the latest update to Adobe Photoshop, it is no longer possible to save a JPEG using the Save As menu option. In this article, I explain what has changed and why.

Over the past week, I have already received a few messages from people who could no longer save a JPEG in Photoshop. To save a JPEG, you always had to go to the File-Save As menu option. From the drop-down menu, you could choose JPEG from the many available file formats.

The old Save As method could be used to choose the JPEG file format.
This is no longer possible, however. Many of the file formats have disappeared from this menu, including JPEG.

After the latest update, there are far fewer file formats in the Save As list. JPEG is no longer available.
One of the latest Photoshop updates unfortunately introduced an unexpected change to the way files are saved. When you look in the menu, you will now see that there are three options for saving files.

Save a Copy was added to the menu with the latest update. If you want to save as a JPEG, choose this option.

There is the familiar Save, Save As, and the new Save a Copy option. The options for saving to a JPEG file have moved to this new saving option. Have you lost the option to save to a JPEG file? Then you need to choose the Save a Copy menu option.

With Save a Copy, you will find the familiar file formats again.
On the petapixel.com website, I found the reason for this strange change. It appears to be related to Apple, which no longer supports the normal communication options with Photoshop in its latest OS.

For the techies among us, Apple no longer accepts the API key that Save As in Photoshop depends on. I do not know the exact details, but the consequence is that Adobe had to find another way to save JPEGs. That became the Save a Copy menu option.

There are a few things worth knowing. If you have opened a JPEG in Photoshop, you can still save a JPEG using Save As. This only matters when you have opened another file format in Photoshop, such as a raw file or a TIFF file, and want to save it as a JPEG.

The Export-Export As option can still be used as usual to create a JPEG file from your photo. This option remains the best way to create a small JPEG file from your photo if it is intended for social media purposes.

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About the author

Nando Harmsen has been photographing for more than 40 years. He specialises in wedding photography and landscape photography. Nando also gives talks, workshops, masterclasses and photo trips, and regularly reviews new and interesting equipment.

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