Preview SaveAs png as Default

i am looking in Preferences and in Inspector and I am not finding a way to set the default file type for a SaveAs operation (or a Save I guess).
Is there a way to get Preview to save out as png so i am not constantly pulling down to png and/or opening to save tiff out as png.
ALSO, can anyone walk me through how I SAVE ALL out of Preview? I somehow always seem to be in a position of opening five documents and saving each out /individually/ when I would much rather do this (or change to png) all at once. right now if I select all docs and do Save it only saves the first in the multiple selection for some reason...
THANKS

Hi fane_j.
Thanks very much for this help.
I seem to be not thinking very well on this when i work in Preview. Can I please ask you for a follow up here as I try and muddle through in a way that makes sense?
Say I just scanned three documents and they are open in Preview. This is not any different from /opening/ three documents that are on my desktop as you describe AFAIK. Yes?
Then say I have rotated them or I have selected ALL of them and run a pulldown to File Size and changed ALL of them to a new pixel width. Now I have them just like I want them and I have edited all of them conveniently with a multiple select.
Then say I need these documents to be stored in another place - if for instance I simply want to periodically delete the scans that are no longer needed in my Scans folder - can I save all three of these to a new location? I know I can print them to pdf and put them in one file in a new location all at once (sort of since this is like four click-throughs...). I mean, can I run a SaveAs in a new location for all three?
And I guess I can't run a SaveAs > png for all three either?
I mean, this sort of breaks down for me because I end up modifying them nicely in terms of rotation or cropping or sizing or whatever and then I go to save them in a new location and I have to do this one by one by one and I don't even get the opportunity to give them a NEW name AFAIK. I have to then navigate in Finder to find the files and manually rename them.
Also, same thing for saving to png. Sort of a PITA because I have to go back and forth occassionally. Anyway, I wonder if I can just change the tiff to png in the file name and not have to save them out one by one by one if I have to get in there to rename them anyway...?
Can you help me figure out if I am missing something here in this workflow? it is a bit of a pain but I guess I should change my scans to png and then saving out to tiff would be the exception whereas png for me now seems to be the rule...
Regards and thanks,
Jon

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