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

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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► 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

[aintnobodygottimedat]

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

[Kae]

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.

[Kaisersozze]

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

[itsjeveryday]

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

[robertsteinberger]

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

[rickmahoney]

"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.

[abdouwaduka]

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.

[MikaelKKarlsson]

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.

[vishfactz]

No doubt, He is the best photoshop tutor on the entire YouTube !❤

[qmerk]

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

[luminousthaw]

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

[FireBirdPhoenixProductions]

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....?

[katharinedeveise]

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

[BaljinderSingh-leho]

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

[UnexpectedCreativeStudios]

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.

[JalpaPatel]

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

[lawrencekeeney]

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

[manikmahajan]

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

[clijsters]

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