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"Summertown" wrote:
My apologies, I meant when I press Shift+Ctrl+S (i.e. SAVE AS), I get the PSD file type as default, yet I can select and save in a dozen different formats. I nearly always choose the JPG and tedioously I always have to select it from the drop down menu. Is there nothing in the preferences that can make this the default???
There is a reason that the default is coming up as PSD.
The default is coming up as PSD because you have edited the image in some way, such as adding a layer, that can not be saved in a JPEG file. JPEG files can not contain things like layers; when you save a JPEG, the layers are flattened.
Photoshop will not come up with a default JPEG because Photoshop does not want to come up with a default that will cause you to lose information from your file.
Why do you prefer to work in JPEG? JPEG degrades the quality of your images; it was invented for situations where file size on disk is critical and file quality is not important. This loss of quality is cumulative; if you edit and re-save a JPEG, the quality goes down and down each time.
JPEG is not a good default file format. I would urge you, if you care about your images, to choose a different file format.
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