Hello... For some reason, my photoshop 7 has taken unto itself the task of saving worked on files as *.Psd or some other photoshop file independend of what I tell it to save as for instance *.JPG.... This is a very anoying thing...I cant save any image in any format except the psd file... Any ideas, someone?

You'll have to do a Save As and make sure that Save As Copy is selected. If you worked on something and there's more than one (background) layer, it will force you to save it as a PSD file so you don't lose your work. Or you can do what I do when I want to make JPG files. I use Save For Web...

Yeah...thats exactly what Ive been doing...yet, it bogles me this thing...I have all layers collapsed and all, I choose the way I want to save the file and it still insists on the darn psd file...go figure...thanks anyway

It shouldn't do that if you select JPEG from the pulldown list on Format: when you File > Save As. Are you just typing in an extension of .jpg?

Here is the sequence of my actions...on another hand, this bizarre behavior may be tied to another one I have been experiencing latelly under windows XP professional. Lets say I want to save a jpg image from the web. I open the image right click on it and under the options I choose save image. The weird thing is the only option available to me is to save it as *.bmp. In the drop down, only the bmp option is available and even though the file has a name on the slot reserved for this it says "no title". The only way I circunvent this is by typing a title and the jpg extension and saving thus. Go figure

I choose jpg from the drop down

Heres the image

step 2

OOps forgot the image

The jpg quality dialog comes up

The image has two layers, that's why it wants you to save in PSD. It's not a good idea to save a working copy in jpg anyway - the image is approximated everytme you do so, so over time it will degrade markedly.

The image is saved with no thumb nail

Trying to load the file back in photoshop I get this msg

There's no thumbnail because it's a PSD file - Adobe couldn't get the psicon.dll helper to work without sometimes locking a file in Windows, so from PS CS it's been dropped and you get an icon only. The jpg version is showing a thumbnail, as it should, at the end of the row above.

Right - it's the not-changing-the-file-extension issue (though I thought that that was adding an extra, not just putting the wrong one on). You should be able to use File>Open as... to read in your jpg, I think, but you need to make sure that the extension in the save dialogue is correct as well as the format in the selection box.

Yeah but as you can see, even if I choose the jpg extension from the dropdown window, it still insists in maintaining the psd extension, and it is this image that gives the error msg upon beeing reloaded...mind you that I have worked with photoshop for a long time and Im used to saving and converting files and so on...but tis behavior has surfaced recently...this is not a typical photoshop behavior...and it doesnt escape my mind that this problem is tied to the one I described above...thanks for your time anyway.

One thing I noticed is that your filename has a space in it. The .bmp on right click is not a WinXP problem. It's an IE problem. It can happen when your Temporary Internet pages cache is full. Tools > Internet Options > General tab click Delete Files.

Thanks people...thats it...I deleted all cookies, plus the internet files and everything is okdok...cheers and lets rock