12-29-2023, 01:24 PM
When you open an image, you can re-export it to the file you loaded it from using Alt-Shift-E (also File ➤ Overwrite).
You don't "save" anything to JPEG because when doing so you lose layers, selections, paths... In the early days of this forum (or its predecessor), panicked posts about lost work were a frequent show (and somehow more frequent than posts complaining about the current behavior...).
JPEG, GIFs, PNG are not edition formats, they are publication formats (if you create a document with Word, you don't save it to PDF).
this said, you can change the shortcuts (Edit > Keyboard shortcuts) and there are even plugins to reinstate the "Exporting-is-Saving" behavior but they aren't used much because sooner or later this makes you lose work (unless you only do trivial changes but then why are you using Gimp).
You don't "save" anything to JPEG because when doing so you lose layers, selections, paths... In the early days of this forum (or its predecessor), panicked posts about lost work were a frequent show (and somehow more frequent than posts complaining about the current behavior...).
JPEG, GIFs, PNG are not edition formats, they are publication formats (if you create a document with Word, you don't save it to PDF).
this said, you can change the shortcuts (Edit > Keyboard shortcuts) and there are even plugins to reinstate the "Exporting-is-Saving" behavior but they aren't used much because sooner or later this makes you lose work (unless you only do trivial changes but then why are you using Gimp).