: When saving as a PSD, have a PNG also saved automatically On Photoshop CS5, I had it set up so that whenever I saved a .psd, whether it were through cmd-s or the file menu, it would also

@Berryessa866

This is possible, go to File -> Save As or CTRL+Alt+S, then select the PNG file type and click Save.

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@LarsenBagley460

You can create your own script if you want, here's a simple one:

main();
function main(){
var Name = app.activeDocument.name.replace(/.[^.]+$/, '');
var Ext = decodeURI(app.activeDocument.name).replace(/^.*./,'');
if(Ext.toLowerCase() != 'psd') return;
var Path = app.activeDocument.path;
var saveFile = File(Path + "/" + Name +".png");
if(saveFile.exists) saveFile.remove();
SavePNG(saveFile);
}

function SavePNG(saveFile){
pngSaveOptions = new PNGSaveOptions();
activeDocument.saveAs(saveFile, pngSaveOptions, true, Extension.LOWERCASE);
}



To use this go to File > Scripts > Scripts Event Manager
Tick "Enable Events to Run Scripts/Actions"
Select "Save Document" from the Photoshop Event dropdown
In the next dropdown box select your new script and click add.


Now every time you do a save, the script will check if you are saving it as a PSD, if it is, it will save a PNG with the same name to the same location.

Note: this will overwrite an existing PNG if there is already one in the save location.

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@Samaraweera207

Are you sure it was a PNG and not a JPEG? To save a JPEG every time you save your document, open the Script Events Manager.



Then enable events to run scripts and set up an event to save a JPEG when you save your document.





You could probably also set up an Automator Workflow in OS X to watch a folder and duplicate and convert PSDs to PNGs.

But it seems likely that the Script Events Manager method is what you had set up previously.

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