Quick Save As function

[ron_hiner]

Very frequently I want to have a 800px wide JPG from my image files for email or who knows what.   The right click 'send photos via email' function does more than I want -- all I want is a 800px JPG... I generally used a web based email, and I want to send files from my desktop  (I use a mac, but I think the same issue applies to windows people)

What I do, which is terribly inefficient, is to export to a web gallery, then find the image file. 

So, what I'd like is a dialog that has all the relevant bits of the exporter dialog (image width and height, rendering options, exif, itpc, watermark) but in the end, it only saves the selected images (or one image on a right click) -- but without the HTML wrappers -- to my desktop, or other location of my choice.

Ah, it's probably already in there... I should read the manual!

[Kirk Baker]

Very frequently I want to have a 800px wide JPG from my image files for email or who knows what.   The right click 'send photos via email' function does more than I want -- all I want is a 800px JPG... I generally used a web based email, and I want to send files from my desktop  (I use a mac, but I think the same issue applies to windows people)

What I do, which is terribly inefficient, is to export to a web gallery, then find the image file. 

So, what I'd like is a dialog that has all the relevant bits of the exporter dialog (image width and height, rendering options, exif, itpc, watermark) but in the end, it only saves the selected images (or one image on a right click) -- but without the HTML wrappers -- to my desktop, or other location of my choice.

Ah, it's probably already in there... I should read the manual!

Is there something missing from the Save As... command itself?

-Kirk

[ron_hiner]

Is there something missing from the Save As... command itself?

Well, yes.  Two thing really.   It should be on the context menu.  I guess I go there when I want to do something with a single image.  I go to the the top of screen menu when I want to paint with a broader paintbrush.  I didn't realize until just now that in Preview mode that the app menu even was active (I'm on a mac os x tiger) However, I could deal with that now that I know it's there.
 
More importantly, Save As... doesn't work on my raw files  (nikon D3)  I get an error message that says  "The selected photo cannot be save at high resolution" 
I don't want a high-rez file -- I want a 800-1000px wide jpg from the raw file.

Does that help?

Thanks

Ron

[Kirk Baker]

Ron,

Is there something missing from the Save As... command itself?

Well, yes.  Two thing really.   It should be on the context menu.  I guess I go there when I want to do something with a single image.  I go to the the top of screen menu when I want to paint with a broader paintbrush.  I didn't realize until just now that in Preview mode that the app menu even was active (I'm on a mac os x tiger) However, I could deal with that now that I know it's there.
 
More importantly, Save As... doesn't work on my raw files  (nikon D3)  I get an error message that says  "The selected photo cannot be save at high resolution" 
I don't want a high-rez file -- I want a 800-1000px wide jpg from the raw file.

Does that help?

Yes.  The contextual menu item for Save As from the Contact Sheet already exists.  It is named "Save photo as...".

The issue of not being able to save from RAW files is already solved in the development version of 4.6 so that shouldn't be an issue once 4.6 is out.

-Kirk