Posted by Paul DeCesare on April 16, 2015 at 1:46 PM
Another useless setting in Photoshop is in Preferences --> File Handling... there's a CheckBox that you want to CHECK, where it says "Disable Compression When Saving" (something like that). Check that box to DISABLE compression. Your files that took almost a minute to save will now finish in under 5 seconds. Compression when saving is an OLD PS "feature" to help save disk space in 1995 when we were running 80MB drives. Plus PCs and drives were so slow back then, EVERYTHING ran slow so you didn't notice the long save times, lol! That compression thing is no longer needed for most situations, so Check that box and enjoy some newly found speed in the program.
I'll offer one caveat, though: If you have a machine with a smallish HD or SSD, the compressed files will save valuable disk space.
This tweak does make a difference if you have the space on your drive, and it takes only a minute to configure.
--P
Posted by Wayne Jones on April 16, 2015 at 8:54 PM
Thanks again for the tip, Paul. There are a couple of things worth mentioning about the uncompressed files.
1. Looks like having PS compress PSD files is the default when you install PS, so if you want to save time, you need to make the change yourself.
2. The extra disk space that uncompressed Photoshop files take up is not huge. For instance, the big file you helped me with (a multi-frame stitched panorama) was 1.87 GB when it was compressed, but it grew to 2.69 GB, about 44% larger than the compressed file.
3. If your file is a really big one -- LOTS of megapixels and layers that make the file size larger than 2 gigabytes -- Photoshop will refuse to save it, and instruct you to use "Save As..." and select "Large Document Format (*.PSB)" to save it. I wonder if that stands for Photoshop Super Big?
Posted by Lance Warley on April 18, 2015 at 2:28 PM
You just converted me back from tif to psd. Thanks very, very much Paul!
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5 repliesI'll offer one caveat, though: If you have a machine with a smallish HD or SSD, the compressed files will save valuable disk space.
This tweak does make a difference if you have the space on your drive, and it takes only a minute to configure.
--P
1. Looks like having PS compress PSD files is the default when you install PS, so if you want to save time, you need to make the change yourself.
2. The extra disk space that uncompressed Photoshop files take up is not huge. For instance, the big file you helped me with (a multi-frame stitched panorama) was 1.87 GB when it was compressed, but it grew to 2.69 GB, about 44% larger than the compressed file.
3. If your file is a really big one -- LOTS of megapixels and layers that make the file size larger than 2 gigabytes -- Photoshop will refuse to save it, and instruct you to use "Save As..." and select "Large Document Format (*.PSB)" to save it. I wonder if that stands for Photoshop Super Big?