Save as a copy

[Stacy_Roland@adobeforums.com]

We are using Photoshop CS (Panther)... When using Photoshop 7, the word "copy" appeared at the end of the filename (before the suffix) regardless of where we were saving it. This option was wonderful for our workflow - there was never any "most recent" file confusion, you alaways new that the files that were labeled with "copy" were works in progress. Now in CS, the only time the word "copy" appears in the name is when we are trying to save the file to the same location as the original file. Is there a way to have that word inserted regardless of where the file is saved when using CS?

Thank you

[Mike_Ornellas@adobeforums.com]

you gotta be kidding...

[JasonSmith@adobeforums.com]

Many of us lobbied to have it function the way it does now (and Adobe apparently listened).

[LRK@adobeforums.com]

True... Most of us are happier with the way it is in CS. Not sure if there's a way to get it back in as I've not tried. Maybe in the Preferences?

[Mike_Ornellas@adobeforums.com]

change your workflow.

[Ed_Hannigan@adobeforums.com]

Ah yes. I notice that the script I made to get rid of "copy" isn't working in OS X just yet. I don't grok the changes in folder actions yet. But here's what I've noticed:

If you are saving from psd to a tiff for instance, with no channels or layers, if you uncheck channels and layers first, the word copy appears. However if you choose tiff as the format and then uncheck channels and layers, copy is not appended.

Works for me.

I have found that making this into an action seems to work only sometimes. Don't know why. But I'm still less than a month into OS X and CS.

[jonf@adobeforums.com]

I am breathing a huge sigh of relief that the word "copy" no longer appends itself to so many files. What an irritation that was.

As a workflow suggestion, if you save with file extensions turned on, you should never have problems determining which files are your copies and which files are your originals. Save your original as a Photoshop .psd, and make your copies in whatever file format you require. Your files will be automatically named filename.psd, filename.tif, filename.eps, etc., and you should always know which one you want to work with.

[Graham_Phillips@adobeforums.com]

Stacy, perhaps you could change the name of the folder that you place your copies into so that it ends in " copies". Then you could say that images you save into that folder are copies.