"Save As" Changed in Photoshop? vs. "Save a Copy"

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In this video, let's clear the confusion once and for all between Save, Save As, Save a Copy, and even Export As, in Photoshop! With the recent changes in Photoshop 2021, there has been a lot of perplexity as to how things have changed. In this tutorial, we will only focus on the fundamental differences between these functions and also cover what to use when.
I hope this video helps you. Thank you so much for watching :)
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► TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Introduction
00:54 What is Save?
02:03 What is Save As?
03:57 What is Save a Copy?
05:26 Exceptions with Save
09:33 Exceptions with Save As
11:26 Which One to Use When?
14:32 Outro

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@PiXimperfect 3 жыл бұрын

► TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Introduction 00:54 What is Save? 02:03 What is Save As? 03:57 What is Save a Copy? 05:26 Exceptions with Save 09:33 Exceptions with Save As 11:26 Which One to Use When? 14:32 Outro

@shahadathrakib 3 жыл бұрын

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@acmabiitz6604 3 жыл бұрын

My photoshop cs6 is not saving pictures i dont know the reason why everytime i try to save a picture it pop up a notification on the screen the message is "could not save as "C:\Users\... ame of the file.psd" because the file is locked, you do not have necessary access permissions, or another program is using the file. Use the "Properties" command in the Windows Explorer to unlock the file. Help me out if you can I need your help. Thanks 😊

@petervanderbyl6140 2 жыл бұрын

When using an existing Jpeg file with some changes made, Using the Save command gets the response from Photoshop; "you do not have sufficient permissions" and the Save function then does not work.

@UTDsinglet Жыл бұрын

Please I don't have the 'Save a copy ' in my options, how can restore that ??

@jasoncorey 3 жыл бұрын

Go to preferences ► File Handling ► Enable legacy "Save As" and boom back to what your used to!

@finaleditvideoproductions4284 3 жыл бұрын

Bro you made my day! This update has been driving me mad!

@rednecknation 3 жыл бұрын

YOU ARE AN ABSOLUTE LEGEND!!!!!!! God do I love and appreciate you this made my decade!! You ever in Florida area my wife and I are taking you to dinner son!! Much appreciated!!!!

@GameKiller48 3 жыл бұрын

thank you. really, I mean it - this was driving me insane

@laniakeadev.2271 2 жыл бұрын

There's no such an option.

@ParanormalPulse411 2 жыл бұрын

@@laniakeadev.2271 yes there is I'm looking at it right now.

@aintnobodygottime4dat 3 жыл бұрын

25 years of using PS and not appreciating Adobe ‘fixing problems’ that never existed.

@animatewithdermot 3 жыл бұрын

This looks like a recipe for disaster, changing the muscle-memory many of us have with saving files. I can see anyone working on a flat image accidentally overwriting their image. Well, I no longer use CC's latest versions (their most recent one has had a showstopper crash bug since Oct 2020, which they have made very little attempt to fix (other than telling us to delete our prefs, delete our prefs, have you switched it off and on again? Delete your prefs.). Infuriating that they're wasting resources on this sort of "FIX" when there are actual bugs that are preventing artists from doing actual work. "IF it ain't broke, fix it until it is", Adobe motto. ASAP I'll be rolling back to CS5.5 (or CS6 if I can get my old copy to install). Bye bye cloud, and good riddance.

@jayfalkus 3 жыл бұрын

Was going to say the exact same thing. The person that thought this was a good idea needs to be fired.

@antoncromas5125 3 жыл бұрын

That was single stupidest thing they did maybe ever. There is also a bug when clicking save a copy button from save as, where it will save tif with layers even if you uncheck that option. . .

@Ruffian_Xion 3 жыл бұрын

@@animatewithdermot Well it actually WAS broke - on Mac Big Sur at least - see the link in my comment.

@animatewithdermot 3 жыл бұрын

@@Ruffian_Xion Oh, yes, I've been wrangling with The Bug for months; have finally given up and am rolling back to CS6, as well as quitting my CC ASAP. From now on if I need an app I'll get it for a month then quit again; the latest 'update' of PS takes 2 minutes to load, then crashes when I try to open a file. I get the impression this issue is dependent on certain hardward configs, (mine is generic NVIDIA on a PC, so I don't know why it hasn't hit more people). In any case, the treatment to those us affected is one of pure contempt, and I won't be giving this awful company a penny more than I have to. I should be able to make-do (about) with my CS5.5 suite for the moment, and will have to look into the free alternatives like DaVinci resolve, Krita, etc.

@Kae6502 3 жыл бұрын

It won't be long until we have a "Save as a Previously Deleted Copy of a Virtual Clone of the Last Saved Edit That Was Tagged" option.

@Longlenluon_49 3 жыл бұрын

mind blown loll

@MusaonYT 3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@TheCreatorMiwa 3 жыл бұрын

😂😂

@Kaisersozze 3 жыл бұрын

If we need a 15minute video on 'Save As' in 2021 then photoshop definitely fucked up and no wonder people hate it.

@itsjeveryday 3 жыл бұрын

This is probably the most annoying update they've ever done.

@MonroesArtStudio 3 жыл бұрын

It's probably because they were seeing people make too many quick saving issues, saving the wrong way, so they made it a non-issue....I think

@jasoncorey 3 жыл бұрын

Easy fix dude

@itsjeveryday 3 жыл бұрын

@@jasoncorey easy but still annoying

@brookbowen3152 2 жыл бұрын

The recent Line Tool "fix" was also a disaster. I believe that they have people making fixes that haven't worked with the program very long.

@rickmahoney9126 3 жыл бұрын

"Murphy' Law" said it so clearly..."If its' not broken don't fix it" Just adds to my work flow, this is a step backwards. CHANGE IT BACK.

@filmalltay 3 жыл бұрын

Isn't Murphy's Law "what can go wrong, will go wrong"? still applicable to Adobe lol

@1boo 3 жыл бұрын

@@filmalltay Dont question him

@UnexpectedCreativeStudios 3 жыл бұрын

Wait... They did this on purpose? Mental. I actually dialled my Photoshop back a couple of versions to bring back all the file formats in Save As. What were they thinking? It clearly wasn't broken, so didn't require fixing.

@79sketches 3 жыл бұрын

He could be a voice of the people and yet he decided to adoctrinate everyone to accept nonsense changes in Adobe software. i wonder why?

@UnexpectedCreativeStudios 3 жыл бұрын

@@79sketches sadly there is some truth there.

@79sketches 3 жыл бұрын

@EasterBurn did not know it can be done

@79sketches 3 жыл бұрын

@EasterBurn haha. I tought it was possible in the "official" way 😅

@CAscotWeavers 3 жыл бұрын

@EasterBurn you can roll back easy with the license, just go to your adobe cloud app, click on apps, click the 3 dots at the end of the line for photoshop and go to other versions. I did this and went back to 22.3.1 as this new feature was driving me mad as it also broke the interface back to lightroom and would mess up where to save files.

@mohunrr 3 жыл бұрын

I was wondering about these new save options but didn't know what they meant. I had to save a copy retaining the original but 'save as' wouldn't work like it used to. So, I chose the save a copy option and went ahead. This video is very appropriate and timely. Thanks a ton.

@abdouwaduka8455 3 жыл бұрын

This was so helpful. I woke up this morning and I was trying to save my image as a JPEG and the drop down arrow was not bringing the usual formats like jpeg, PNG, PDF and so on and I got confused. By try and error I was able to use save a copy but I didn't know what exactly was going on. Thank you so much.

@Lackmind 3 жыл бұрын

Why do you prefer saving a document in JPEG with "Save As" instead of "Export As"? Just curious

@Lackmind 3 жыл бұрын

@@PhotoshopSimplified720 I see, thank you. So for several users like you the issue with the recent changes is that you now have to use "Save a copy" because "Save as" has been changed? I only use "Save as" to save a PSD working document, so I'm not sure what has changed exactly.

@Lackmind 3 жыл бұрын

@@PhotoshopSimplified720 I understand now. Thanks a lot 👍

@taskmasterblaster 3 жыл бұрын

It had me in a cold sweat man. No joke.

@fil1802 3 жыл бұрын

Have you tried: Ctrl+Alt+S ? This will offer you the full drop down list.

@ceejaay01 3 жыл бұрын

Adobe going down the wrong road and making things unnecessarily difficult !!!!

@RyanTroy 3 жыл бұрын

i hate that it puts extra stuff on the filename as well

@alenadaniela 3 жыл бұрын

Totally agree! Adobe products cost so much money and they make us spend more time working instead of making things easier! Sooo angry with this bullshit feature! :-!

@raggamuffininternational 3 жыл бұрын

You are the best at explaining everything I need to know. The new save features were puzzling to me, but now I got it! Thanks Unmesh!

@robertsteinberger 3 жыл бұрын

OR you can go into settings -> file handling -> check those boxes with "apply copy" and "legacy save as" and use it as always

@GabrielVenzi 3 жыл бұрын

Oh, thank you!! I’ve been trying to understand why “save as” doesn’t let me save as jpeg anymore. Now I get it, and actually those changes make a lot of sense, cause it was a little annoying to have to change from psd to jpeg or the other way when saving the work. Now it’s more straight to the point... One saves the processes, other saves the results. Liked it.

@ThatSpadeGirl 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I know it's simple enough, but I've been curious! I appreciate your recaps towards the end always.

@randomfud 3 жыл бұрын

Really it's just adding more steps than required to save as which is obsurd!

@pcmobitab 3 жыл бұрын

I like your consistency.. every day around this time you bring some new topic 😀

@JalpaPatel 3 жыл бұрын

thank you very much for clearing my confusion in save, save as, save a copy, and export this is good and helpfull

@swapnilness1468 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much big bro. Honestly. Being a Beginner that was honestly the simple most and easy understandable..

@lukasf5256 6 ай бұрын

Helpful as always! Thanks

@wildlizzard1 2 жыл бұрын

You always make things easy!

@frankcruz8068 11 ай бұрын

Brilliant explanation. Thank you!

@lgallphn 3 жыл бұрын

Great explanation! :) Thank you, bro! Keep it coming!

@colinweir5807 3 жыл бұрын

Once again thank you for sorting through the changes.

@clijsters3187 3 жыл бұрын

Searching this topic and just got an idea about the color lookup! fantastic!

@qmerk2661 3 жыл бұрын

ive just been using save as copy, because i didnt understand it after the update when they changed it. since save as used to give all the options. thanks for the video

@katharinedeveise5466 3 жыл бұрын

You...are...awesome!! Well done as always! Thank you, thank you 🙏

@BaljinderSingh-le9ho 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for turning my day good in the first 15 seconds.

@bokquay 3 жыл бұрын

So helpful, especially the tutorial on export.

@MikaelKKarlsson 3 жыл бұрын

Current favorite Photoshop peeve; I use maybe 3-4 different file formats at the most, yet every time I use the regular save dialog I have to click a list with 22 different options.

@imageskj1 3 жыл бұрын

👍

@SHIVAM.M.S 3 жыл бұрын

Great tutorial 🤘🏻 helped alot differentiating all these things💯

@yoga7788 2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant video thanks once again

@md.ridoyalisarker2999 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much bro. Take love From Bangladesh ❤️

@mcbaldoz7555 2 жыл бұрын

helped me a lot since its my first time using photoshop

@balawax009 3 жыл бұрын

Hi All, on photoshop preferences/file handling we have an option called "Enable legacy save as". It get rid of the word "COPY"from the files. we don't need to manually remove them. The only difference is instead of earlier SHIFT+COMM+S you need to go for ALT/OPT+COMM+S. hope it helps.

@TombowGraphics 2 жыл бұрын

I owe you

@PhongNguyenHuy 11 ай бұрын

Thank you so much

@danielfriasfotografia 3 жыл бұрын

I gotta tell you... that's a neat hair style man! Cheers from Brazil!

@pranaldeshmukh5642 3 жыл бұрын

Thankyou for saving our "as" :)

@paasolocreation2155 3 жыл бұрын

Very informative Bravo 👏

@stevechoatie249 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent explanation!!

@sanjibdey61 2 жыл бұрын

it was very helpful, thank you sir

@robertogejman5311 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Unmesh! When dealing only with Photoshop this subject is a little complicated, but it behaves as logically expected. However, when bringing files from Lightroom into Photoshop! That needs a tutorial by itself! There are many scenarios, and not all behave logically. For example, some save operations update the Lightroom catalog, but not all, so you have to be looking up when to update it manually. Also, there are 3 ways to send a photo from LR to be edited in PS. If you throw in the different image types, and the 3 save flavors, you get at least 18 different scenarios! Please, help us clarify that.

@copperfront 3 жыл бұрын

I absolutely love when Adobe adds more steps to my workflow! Fixing all the problems nobody knew existed! What visionaries. Seriously, do they even use the software they keep messing up?

@fielding68 3 жыл бұрын

You said "Hope everything is now clear" It is now clearER.

@RyanTroy 3 жыл бұрын

😂

@manikmahajan3453 3 жыл бұрын

You made it possible for even a 5 year old to understand not just this video same with others videos as well.

@thorstenpenz1400 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for your great explanation.

@okkarmyo4425 3 жыл бұрын

Unmesh and his beautiful handwriting, we need more

@ghananilpotdar7986 3 жыл бұрын

Great information . Thank you sir 🥰🥰☺☺👍👍👍

@luminousthaw8601 5 ай бұрын

Proud to see a picture from our country Myanmar in this video.

@bethanialima4996 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

@youngcaptainkeos2133 3 жыл бұрын

i have been wondering about this for sooo long. and export as was especially confusing for me soo amazing video

@amgpoint1291 3 жыл бұрын

Yes

@KellySWard 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you thank you thank you for clearing this up!!!

@brucecoulter312 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the explanation, Unmesh. I typically export my work from Lightroom as a tiff file. I couldn't understand why I couldn't save it as a jpg as I usually do after processing further in Photoshop.

@dickebk Жыл бұрын

This was VERY helpful thank you! I kept wondering why is this 300 ppi file in CMYK mode I'm trying to Export As (intended for printing ) ending up creating a jpeg as 72 ppi and switching back to sRGB even though I didn't choose the "save for web" option and when I tried to do a Save As it only had those several file format options. Now I know to choose the Save a Copy AND the Export As is only for the web. I know the difference!! You're a very good instructor breaking things down. I am an Instructional Designer working in corporate and can definitely appreciate well made training!

@A_m321 6 ай бұрын

like always something unique to learn from u

@hushyfoxx 3 жыл бұрын

You made this literally the day after I spend 40 minutes tearing my hair out trying to save a .png for work 😂 what a silly change for them to make out of the blue!

@RyanTroy 3 жыл бұрын

yeah this was a dumb update if you ask me

@JonathanAnimate2 3 жыл бұрын

Same. Spent ages resaving tons of image variants once I learned the issue was an “update” rather than my file, I had resorted to export as which butchered my png options. Wish there was a proper notification about this.

@masseylad1972 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot dude for clearing that up. I spent 30 mins scratching my head when I went to save the other day. 🤣👍🏽

@Rob_van_der_Linden 3 жыл бұрын

Sounds familiar :-)

@kajaldigitalphotostudio40 3 жыл бұрын

Nice video sir..&.. Thanks for sharing

@JohnDeir 3 жыл бұрын

I did now a lot of this but found some good pointers. Thanks! But one thing I find daunting is keeping an organization (folders and naming, dates, locations) of all my textures, photos, graphics... so much stuff. Digging through over 20 TB of stuff is getting to me and then all the updates to LR and PS, I'm constantly updating my images. Maybe you could do a tutorial on how you manage your work. Again, many Thanks!!

@laserfloyd 3 жыл бұрын

I thought I was going crazy at first. I restarted PS a few times. Even rebooted and then it hit me that I had updated and, yep, it was a legit change. Annoying but I'm pretty much over it and getting used to it. Just jarring to change something that has been the same way for decades. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@povilaslondon 3 жыл бұрын

The problem is that it add "copy" to your file name and now if you simply want jpeg/png etc file with the same name it will take you much longer as you will need to delete that from your file name. It's alright if you make only few files a day but then you do lots it will be extremely annoying

@alenadaniela 3 жыл бұрын

Exactly! I spent like 4 hours re-installing photoshop, the whole damn computer and googling what the heck was going on until I figured the same thing! Arrrgh! Adobe owes me like 400 dollars by now!!!

@DrKumarAmit 3 жыл бұрын

@@povilaslondon Exactly my predicament. It has broken my whole workflow and sadly I've no solution to it.

@povilaslondon 3 жыл бұрын

@@DrKumarAmit my solution is to use nuke where I can

@lokeshblogs8089 3 жыл бұрын

This class remembered my school life.... Best class dada

@FireBirdPhoenixProductions 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks to you this makes sense. What doesn't is why? 'Save' and 'Save As' worked just fine as they were. Who seriously asked for the save function to be broken up like this....?

@UniqueUniBOX2020 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Umesh bhai

@rajbhansingh3162 Жыл бұрын

very good i understand thank you

@pratiknaikedu 3 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU! I will be using this to send to everyone forever. Until the next version where they add the "Save Also As" option to confuse us further.

@masudulhasan7484 Жыл бұрын

you made this clear

@mont_art 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you a lot.

@donconrard533 3 жыл бұрын

Great video. I've been struggling with this since Adobe screwed things up.

@lawrencekeeney4317 3 жыл бұрын

This is by far the best explanation on saving files in Photoshop.

@ronniesilverio 3 жыл бұрын

Very informative. Stay safe

@NS_ROX 3 жыл бұрын

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@chemsou3606 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@skcreations4249 3 жыл бұрын

usefull information thank u sir

@m.a.hafeezzain5537 3 жыл бұрын

Introduction supr ✨amzng ❤️🤗

@hagenpiecuch 3 жыл бұрын

Many thanks for the very good explanations. But there is one thing which is different when you do an export as against to save as a copy. The (metadata) "TAGS" in the exported as version are not included except the copyright information if you choose that option during the export step.

@Rob_van_der_Linden 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, it's now clear that this new feature disrupts my workflow. Was hoping to find something I missed in PS by watching your video, but for now it seems it's better for me to use the previous version.

@McSliksOnline 3 жыл бұрын

His voice is so comfy and relaxing. Great tutorial though

@antonfilyk 3 жыл бұрын

Your handwritten letter "s" is beautiful

@franceslim9561 3 жыл бұрын

Great Video !! I cant use "save as" to save img format from my photoshop after i have updated to latest version photoshop ! This video solve my problem and explain all my question ~ Thanks and appreciated it !!

@GrandizerGo 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the clarifications... I have always just used flatten image and then saved as a new filename with the jpg extension.

@GrandizerGo 3 жыл бұрын

@@PhotoshopSimplified720 Yeah, I learned that from over 15 years ago? Probably closer to 20. :) It worked, I never changed.

@KUSHEDITZ 3 жыл бұрын

Sir I am your big fan thanks for this video

@alihasnain8514 3 жыл бұрын

How to save a jpeg for print?? Please guide on this too By far most amazing explanation 💕 Loved it completely 😊

@alfredfred4017 3 жыл бұрын

12:30 the only thing i didnt know. Thanx!

@aichabrahmi9300 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your great videos. What about if you want to save all your work (all layers without flaterning ) into one single RAW document to print or share ?

@rajramjit1755 2 жыл бұрын

lol...the sensei of PS. Love your presentation. 👏

@sjamz 3 жыл бұрын

Recently i was looking for the answer and you uploaded this video. I almost believe you can read our mind 😂

@02sunshine03 3 жыл бұрын

question: when saving as "save as copy", will my file size be diminished? I have to do this in order to have the jpg option, but need my max image quality. Thanks!

@santoshwhy2943 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks 🙏

@sergioianni5349 Жыл бұрын

Great video tks

@alexfreedomroad 3 жыл бұрын

In Photoshop 22.4.2 it's possible to revert this feature. In Preferences go to File Handling and check Enable legacy "Save As"

@PoisonousRakun 3 жыл бұрын

There was no problem to start with... I only hope they revert this. Anyway, I already remapped the save as copy to what I assigned for save as.

@levendesigns8032 3 жыл бұрын

Sir, 1 video color sense k liye b bana dijiye. Jisse pata chale k kis color k saath konsa color best lagega

@moy_moy85 3 жыл бұрын

Wow, thanks Adobe for solving a problem none one had and in the process creating a new one.

@josephpaz2520 2 жыл бұрын

Great Videos. Next please explain when SAVING AS PNG and the PNG gives u 2 SAVE OPTIONS: 1-COMPRESSION save & 1- INTERNLACE save. What does Saving a PNG, in INTERLACE do?

@josepintodesign 3 жыл бұрын

This just doesnt make sense,... instead of simplifying thigs, adobe just makes them complicated, we used Save As for almost everything, but instead of removign things that no one uses, Adobe want to force us to use them.. I just dont understand why these changes...

@shinigami1291 2 жыл бұрын

thank you for this tutorial, what would happen if I were to work on an image destined for print, CMYK. What is the process to save and maintain the CMYK profile of that in a jpg?

@lqqkitslory Жыл бұрын

Question.. I would like to be able to create 2 copies, 1 for web and 1 for print, in a new ‘final folder’ with a simple shortcut or action… please help me 🙏🏼

@shameerv2154 3 жыл бұрын

great Man!!

@grandmasterj5 3 жыл бұрын

I'd rather say that SAVE updates the current image (instead of replaces), because as you said, Save As can also replace if they don't remember to change the file name.