Saving files as jpg

I can't save a psd file as a jpg in CS5 Extended Version. This is the first time this has ever happened to me.

Thank you very much. It solved my problem because I was using 32 bits per channel.
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Photoshop CS - Saving file as jpg

Hi
I am using CS v8.0 and using a javascript action script. I seem to be having all kinds of problems saving the document as a .jpg though. I simply want to open all the files in a folder, resize the image and save the file with a different name (in the same folder). Here is my code so far:
// Save current dialog preferences
var startDisplayDialogs = app.displayDialogs;
var startRulerUnits = app.preferences.rulerUnits; // Save the current preferences
app.preferences.rulerUnits = Units.PIXELS; // Set Photoshop to use pixels
// Don't display dialogs
app.displayDialogs = DialogModes.NO;
var FILE_TYPE = ".jpg"; // The type of files that this script works on -- you can change
var SEARCH_MASK = "*" + FILE_TYPE; // Image file filter to find only those files
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// Ask user for input folder
var inputFolder = Folder.selectDialog("Select a folder to process");
if (inputFolder == null)
throw X_NOINPUT;
// get all files in the input folder
var fileList = inputFolder.getFiles(SEARCH_MASK);
// Open each file in turn
for (var i = 0; i < fileList.length; i++) {
// Set document to open file
var docRef = open(fileList[i]);
var fname = docRef.name;
var currentDocument = app.activeDocument;
// IF LandScape Picture
if (currentDocument.height.value < currentDocument.width.value) {
// Resize image by shrinking width
currentDocument.resizeImage(110,undefined);
// IF Height < 110 --- Enlarge top right of canvas
if (currentDocument.height.value < 110) {
currentDocument.resizeCanvas(110,110,AnchorPosition.BOTTOMLEFT);
docRef.backgroundLayer.applySharpen();
var saveFile = new File(fname.slice(0,-4) + "-small.jpg");
var saveOptions = new JPEGSaveOptions();
saveOptions.quality = 3;
currentDocument.saveAs(saveFile,saveOptions,true,Extension.LOWERCASE);
currentDocument.close(saveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES);
} else {
currentDocument.close(saveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES);
} else {
// Resize image by shrinking height
currentDocument.resizeImage(undefined,110);
// IF Width < 110 --- Enlarge right of canvas
if (currentDocument.width.value < 110) {
currentDocument.resizeCanvas(110,110,AnchorPosition.BOTTOMLEFT);
docRef.backgroundLayer.applySharpen();
var saveFile = new File(fname.slice(0,-4) + "-small.jpg");
var saveOptions = new JPEGSaveOptions();
saveOptions.quality = 3;
currentDocument.saveAs(saveFile,saveOptions,true,Extension.LOWERCASE);
currentDocument.close(saveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES);
} else {
currentDocument.close(saveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES);
catch (exception) {
// Show degbug message and then quit
alert(exception);
finally {
// Reset app preferences
app.displayDialogs = startDisplayDialogs;
The resize of the image seems to work fine but i just can't get the saving working. Also, even though i have specified DONOTSAVECHANGES i still get the "Do you want to save changes" prompt when closing the file.
Any help is appreciated..
Thanks,
Dan

With CS2, you have to make sure the image is flattened, there are not paths, no extra channels, in RGB colorspace, and 8bit. The current versions of PS does this for you, but not CS2.
BTW, you said you just installed CS2, which is a very old program. I hope you have a license for it. See this thread:
https://forums.adobe.com/message/6290183#6290183

Saving files as .jpg, not .eps?

I've moved up from CS5 to 6. Always before able to save images as .jpg. Now on 6, files are saved as .eps?
Why is that and how can I save as .jpg instead?

Hi Tallarchitect,
The way you save files in Photoshop has changed very little over the last few years. You are able to choose a variety of file formats, .eps and .jpeg being two of them.
You can change the file format you want to save by selecting "JPEG" from the Format menu after opening the Save As… dialog.

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Would someone please help me? I'm at my wit's end here. I'm writing a program that reads a file and saves it, but it needs to read a maximum of 512 bytes before it starts to write. It needs to work with both text files and images.
- It works fine with text files.
- It works fine with bmp images.
- It works fine with jpg and gif images under 512 bytes.
- With a jpg or gif over 512 bytes, it comes out all garbled, but the same file size as the original.
One thing is really confoozling me. When the image comes out garbled, I tried changing the files for both the original and the copy into text files by changing the file extension to .txt. Both the text files were identical! So if the data is identical, why is the copy not showing the same image as the original?
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          static int fileSize = 0; //Size of whole file.
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I stripped away the directory selection and error handling to make it simpler.

Cadvan1123 wrote:
I think the best choice is to use a ByteArrayOutputStreamWrong. You do not need a ByteArrayOutputStream
and I think that it uses ASCII encodingPossible, but you can't just make that assumption. On windows for instance, there's a good likelihood it could use ANSI. And BTW, ASCII is for the most part dead, as it has been superseded by UTF-8.
Check out t [jacobs.io.DataFetcher in TUS|http://tus.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/tus/tjacobs/] for a threadable and optimal/close-to-optimal solution for reading in binary files.
Edited by: tjacobs01 on Mar 20, 2010 2:56 PM

Saving files as jpg from InDesign CS4 js

Hi, Kasyan.
You originally gavy me this script to re-save files as pngs, and now I need it to re-save them as jpgs instead. I made some changes, but I must have missed something, because it's not working. Could you take a look at it:
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Yulia

On first sight:
myJPGSaveOptions.interlaced = false;
JPEG save options don't have an 'interlaced' property; that was for PNGs only. Check Photoshop's Script Help for the specific JPEG options.

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Saving psd file as jpg

Hello all -
I have recently upgraded from PSE–3 to PSE–9.0 on my Intel MAC running OSX 10.5.8.
With PSE–3, when I wanted to save a psd file as a jpg, I would click File/SaveAs, and in the subsequent window select JPG. When I did that, the file name at the top of the window changed from xxx.psd to xxx.jpg and the resulting saved file was, in fact, a jpg.
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When saving files from internet sources, if the file ends in a typical photo extension such as .jpg, .bmp, .tif etc. it defaults to save it in your PHOTOS folder.
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