# TIP: Don't use File - Save As in Photoshop, only use Export

DevFeed: [TIP: Don't use File - Save As in Photoshop, only use Export](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/tip-don-t-use-file-save-as-in-photoshop-only-use-export-19575.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.codenameone.com/blog/tip-dont-use-file-save-as-in-photoshop/>)

Author: Shai Almog

Published: 2016-10-23T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [CodeName One](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/codename-one.md>)

Topics: [ui](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ui.md>), [Image](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/image.md>)

Tags: [files](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/files.md>), [image](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/image.md>), [images](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/images.md>), [jpeg](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/jpeg.md>), [photoshop](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/photoshop.md>), [tutorials](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tutorials.md>), [ui](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ui.md>)

## AI overview

The article explains that Photoshop's Save As workflow can add excessive metadata and produce unusually large regular image files. It recommends using File -> Export when exporting images and notes that multi-images are not affected. It also describes editing image files directly from the designer tool through Photoshop or GIMP.

## Source excerpt

This isn't a programming tip, but since we discussed photoshop quite a few times before it's probably an important subject. Especially because we made this exact mistake in those tutorials and I've spent the better part of the day tracking this with no result... I've worked on extracting UI's from PSD files for a while now and I was on my way to build a new UI when suddenly I noticed my theme file was HUGE. Not just "big", HUGE.