jpg as standard file format

[veltinger337]

I am using affinity photo 2 and like the various features of the software, but - like in Gimp - I would really appreciate the software to give me the opportunity to chose jpg (and other popular filetypes are welcome too) in the "Save as" menu. 

This would make everyday workflows much easier, which often means "open a raw, develop it, save it as jpg". I'm not really interested in using affinitys own format as well I am not interested in .psd for every day picture manipulation, which is "quick and dirty" most of the time. 

Why not export? For example, because this does not chose by default the folder the original file came from and so every time I have to walk through the folder tree to find the target. 

Of course I am not proposing to remove the export menu - some other users might like it, e.g. for exporting their files all the time to the same output folder. 

[fde101]

Hi @veltinger337, welcome to the forums!

 

Unfortunately JPEG is a particularly bad file format for this and would be one of the last ones I would ever want to see anyone choose as a primary file format when saving a document they have done any kind of work on.  As it is a lossy-compressed format, every time you make a change and save it, you are losing more and more data to the compression (a property of lossy formats referred to as generational loss), leading to additional artifacts and an overall loss of quality, and so it should only ever be used for a final export just before delivery.

In the unlikely event that Serif were to determine it was acceptable to let users "save" in a format that doesn't even support multiple layers and thus will silently throw away just about every editable aspect of your work every time you close and reopen the file, PNG would probably be a better choice, as it is still compressed, but the compression is lossless and will not suffer from generational loss the way that JPEG will.

[Gripsholm Lion]

Maybe what you want to propose is some kind of one-click quick export which uses a complete preset and file save location of your choosing.

[Catshill]

Once you have exported the file it will remember the place you saved it to.

[fde101]

7 hours ago, Catshill said:

Once you have exported the file it will remember the place you saved it to.

Yes, that is what the OP perceives as the problem.  The request is out of a desire to put the exported file where the originally imported file was, rather than where the last export was saved.

I suspect a number of these concerns could be at least reduced with a simple preference to indicate where the Save and Export dialogs open to: directory last saved/exported to, directory where current file was opened/imported from, directory last referenced by any dialog, specific directory indicated as preference...

Personally, for the things I do, the current behaviors are ideal *most* of the time - but different people work in different ways and may thus have different optimal behaviors for this.