From .jpg to Psd ?

hi everyone, i think this is the right section for this thread, anyway, here`s my question; i resized a PSD file and converted to a jpg but accidently i saved the Psd file as a jpg. so is there a way to undo this action? maybe a place where PS stores temp files in the computer or something? thanks in advance

If after doing this you closed the image, then you can't "Undo" the action.

If you left it open, I imagine Undo/Ctl/Cmd-Z would likely work, but I'm not positive of that. You'd have to try and see.

As to re-opening the jpeg, you can in fact Save As a psd (or tiff) so that you can edit it, Save, re-open and re-edit. For one thing you can keep layers intact for future edits, and also doing that will prevent repeated jpeg compression, a good thing!

When I was shooting jpegs, that became my "normal" process when I needed to do work in Photoshop. At the time, psd was the "normal" format, and as soon as I opened a jpeg in Photoshop I'd do the Save As to a psd, and leave it in that format until I was ready for a final output.

tonylong wrote in post #14613052
If after doing this you closed the image, then you can't "Undo" the action.

If you left it open, I imagine Undo/Ctl/Cmd-Z would likely work, but I'm not positive of that. You'd have to try and see.

As to re-opening the jpeg, you can in fact Save As a psd (or tiff) so that you can edit it, Save, re-open and re-edit. For one thing you can keep layers intact for future edits, and also doing that will prevent repeated jpeg compression, a good thing!

When I was shooting jpegs, that became my "normal" process when I needed to do work in Photoshop. At the time, psd was the "normal" format, and as soon as I opened a jpeg in Photoshop I'd do the Save As to a psd, and leave it in that format until I was ready for a final output.

Thank you for the reply, i am afraid that i closed the image i always shoot RAW. it is just a shame really because i spent more than thirty minutes for the PP

Correct me if I'm wrong but aren't you not able to "save" a psd as jpg, only "save as?" Wouldn't the psd still be intact and the jpg would be a copy of the psd?

did you save the psd at all?

the psd does not get over written when saved as a jpeg file. the only thing that would stop you from not having the psd is to not have saved it at all.

or is what your asking is you saved the psd as the resized jpeg when you actually wanted to keep it as the original raw size?

Look for filename.jpg. And I mean the extension is dot jpg dot

Rename that to filename.psd

I suspect you did a save as, the type was psd, but you entered something dot jpg, now the file has no valid extension so you don't see it in file/open.

If the OP opened the Raw file in the Photoshop editor from Camera Raw, then a psd file was not created automatically. So, if after editing the OP did a Save As a jpeg and then closed the file, there would be a jpeg but no psd.

Lightroom is different. If you use Lightroom to Edit in Photoshop (assuming you open as a Copy with Lightroom adjustments applied) then LR creates a psd or tiff and stores/imports it into the Library alongside of the original Raw file.

So I suspect that the OP did the former -- opened the photo in PS using Camera Raw, Saved As a jpeg, then closed the image.

i think the easiest way to fix this is just reprocess your RAW again. while you spent 30 mins working on the photo, it probably wasnt 30 mins of actual editing, but more of playing around with your settings. so if you remember what you did, you could probably recreate the image in a few mins.

Ah, yeah, if the file type was only saved as jpg, you guys are correct.

i opened the previously saved psd file, made some changes,converted to jpg for web usage and instead of ctrl+alt+s (save as) i pressed ctrl+s. i think only option is to reprocess the raw file. thanks everyone

ya your gonna have to reprocess the RAW....i've done this numberous times. even on a few images that took me a few hours to process...now that was a pain in the ass to start over with but ended up better then what i originally went with.

suzbah wrote in post #14613491
i opened the previously saved psd file, made some changes,converted to jpg for web usage and instead of ctrl+alt+s (save as) i pressed ctrl+s. i think only option is to reprocess the raw file. thanks everyone

Shortcuts can be dangerous. I use them a lot, but there are some which I don't use, and that's one. Then too, I will always save my .psd before I do any conversion, just for insurance. I tend to be a bit overly paranoid about it.

suzbah wrote in post #14613491
i opened the previously saved psd file, made some changes,converted to jpg for web usage and instead of ctrl+alt+s (save as) i pressed ctrl+s. i think only option is to reprocess the raw file. thanks everyone

How diod you "convert to jpg"?

As long as you didn't flatten the image, Ctrl+S will have saved a .psd file…

Sounds like OP opened the raw file, did something, saved as JPG, then closed.

René Damkot wrote in post #14615132
How diod you "convert to jpg"?

As long as you didn't flatten the image, Ctrl+S will have saved a .psd file…

i flatten the image before i saved