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I'm using XP HE SP2 and in one of my photo programs, Photoshop 7.01 when
I use Save As on any file, for example a .tif file, the program used to
replace the .tif with whatever I was Saving it As, for example a .jpg.

For example, shot.tif, Save As .jpg and the file became shot.jpg. For
some reason, when I do that now, it Saves it As shot.tif.jpg.

I've posted this question in a Photoshop newsgroup and I've gotten no
reply so I thought I'd post the question here.
 
I'm not entirely sure, but you (or someone else?) may have enabled the "view
extensions" option in Windows file options. I'm not a Photoshop expert, but
this is fairly common for other programs. You can either choose to "hide
extensions of known file types" in Windows, or simply remove the extension
when you are saving the file. There may also be an option in Photoshop to
show the file type extension, but I know little about Photoshop.
 
I have it set to see the extensions, I like it that way. That is not the
problem. In Photoshop, when I saved a .tif as a .jpg Photoshop changed
the file name extension from .tif to .jpg. Now it save the file name
extension as .tif.jpg.

I think it may be a Photoshop problem because my XnView photo program
still changes it from .tif to .jpg.

Thanks for trying to help!
 
JD said:
I have it set to see the extensions, I like it that way. That is not the
problem. In Photoshop, when I saved a .tif as a .jpg Photoshop changed
the file name extension from .tif to .jpg. Now it save the file name
extension as .tif.jpg.

I think it may be a Photoshop problem because my XnView photo program
still changes it from .tif to .jpg.

Thanks for trying to help!
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No, a file extension is only the characters after the last period. If
there's only "jpg" past the last period it's the lossy, but usually more
compact, JPEG format. the ".tif" before the period is no more
significant than the earlier portion of the file name.

Have you tried deleting the ".tif" in the file name text box of the
"Save As..." dialog before you click the "OK" button (or use the "Enter"
key)? I can't get too detailed about that particular application, as I
don't have it and don't know if it uses the common dialog (like
Microsoft Paint and Microsoft Notepad uses) or its own custom "Save As"
dialog. In some other bitmap graphics programs it can be better to use
"Export..." instead of "Save As...".
 
RobertVA said:
No, a file extension is only the characters after the last period. If
there's only "jpg" past the last period it's the lossy, but usually more
compact, JPEG format. the ".tif" before the period is no more
significant than the earlier portion of the file name.

Have you tried deleting the ".tif" in the file name text box of the
"Save As..." dialog before you click the "OK" button (or use the "Enter"
key)? I can't get too detailed about that particular application, as I
don't have it and don't know if it uses the common dialog (like
Microsoft Paint and Microsoft Notepad uses) or its own custom "Save As"
dialog. In some other bitmap graphics programs it can be better to use
"Export..." instead of "Save As...".
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Let me try to explain this one more time.

Using Photoshop, I scan an image in and save it as scan01 in the tiff
format. Photoshop saves it as scan01.tif. I then use Save As and in the
drop down menu select .jpg.

Photoshop used to save the file as scan01.jpg. Now it saves the file as
scan01.tif.jpg.

This started a day after I took a XP update and took four Acrobat
updates, but I have since removed all the updates and I have reinstalled
Photoshop and Acrobat Pro 6 but the problem still exists.
 
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