PSE6 Mac OS - Save For Web won't save JPEG high res setting in Preset
Why is it that, contrary to documentation, Save For Web won't remember that I always select JPEG High for every photo file I save? Each time, it comes up as "Custom" Low quality, and can't even remember that I want JPEG format. My reliable old copy of PSE 2 that I've used happily for six years was capable of remembering what I wanted out of Save For Web. There are always surprises with new Adobe versions, I just wish there were some good ones once in a while...
I tried on my mac machine with PSE 6 and saved one file as PNG-24 and some settings. I saved the file.
next time when i opened any other image and tried using save for web, the previous settings were remembered.
So, i m not sure if the issue you facing is common to all.
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Save for web won't save in CS5
So, save for web worked perfectly when I installed CS5, until a couple of days ago, when I clicked the save-button in the save for web window and got this message: "Could not complete this operation. An unknown operating system error has occurred."
It makes no sense and I've tried basically everything I can think of that could help:
Restarting
Deleting settings for save for web
Reinstalling the whole CS5 package (and removing settings)
Repairing disk permissions
Cleaning up stuff with OnyX
Shutting down all other applications and running photoshop alone
None of those things did anything and I'm pretty much stuck. Any ideas?Ok, now it seems to work of some reason. I have no idea whatsoever as to why.
Edit: Wait, it works on certain files, and on others it doesn't. It won't work if I create a blank file and try saving, but it worked on a specific file. Makes no sense.
Edit2: and NOW it seems to work on all files. Damn, I'm confused. -
"Save For Web" not remembering save folder
Hi Guys,
I'm using the save for web function to save a large number of files (not batch saving).
Usually, when I open a file and start saving for web, it will remember the folder that I most recently exported to, and by default open that folder for that file, until I "save for web" into a different folder.
Out of seemingly nowhere, the save for web seemed to "forget" this folder (and any other folder I tried to save to), and now defaults to the "Documents" folder, causeing me have to click through to find my intended destination folder.
Any ideas? Google was not a help on this one, I can't seem to find anyone with a similar issue.
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- CaitlinCaitlin,
You may try the following (you may have tried/done some of them already) and see whether it helps (the following is a general list of things you may try when the issue is not in a specific file; 3) and 4) are specifically aimed at possibly corrupt preferences):
1) Close down Illy and open again;
2) Restart the computer (you may do that up to 3 times);
3) Close down Illy and press Ctrl+Alt+Shift/Cmd+Option+Shift during startup (easy but irreversible);
4) Move the folder with Illy closed (more tedious but also more thorough and reversible);
5) Look through and try out the relevant among the Other options (Item 7) is a list of usual suspects among other applications that may disturb and confuse Illy);
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http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cscleanertool.html -
CS5 Save for Web won't let me save to Windows volume
I have a Windows Server 2003 volume mounted through Services for Macintosh (AFP, not SMB, I'm pretty sure). Even though both the Mac and the Windows volume can independently handle filenames longer than 31 characters, because of SFM (I'm assuming) I have never been able to save directly out of any application to that Windows volume with a >31 char file name. This has never been a problem as I've kept my file names short.
Having just installed CS5, however, Save for Web isn't letting me save any file, no matter how short the name: "Names longer than 31 characters are not supported on the destination volume." I can Save For Web just fine to my desktop and Save As... to the Windows volume, but not Save for Web to the Windows volume.
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thanks.That might be part of what is going on (and doesn't look a thing like our internal filenames or anything else I recognize).
Probably it's something internal to the save dialog (NavagationServicesSavePanel), and it assumes that filesystems will be able to handle long names.
Again, using SMB to connect to the server may remove part of the restrictions.
CS3/4 was based on Carbon, and used different APIs for much of the file work.
CS5 moved to Cocoa, and has a new set of file APIs to deal with. -
Anyone else having issues with the Save for Web in Illustrator CS6? I am on a Windows 7 system and now that the APPLY button is gone Save for Web is not working.
Put in a new size and nothing happens. If I fiddle with random buttons for 5-10 minutes I can finally get the image to refresh to the size I want, but it's all random and doesn't work the same everytime.
Makes a 3 sec job take 15 mins which is terrible. Going to go back to CS5 if there's no fix for this.So, just to make sure it's not user error. If I put 350 px in the Width field and then hit tab tab the image should refresh to the 350 px right?
It doesn't, it just stays the original size.
If I hit tab 3 times (so Art Optimized is highlighted) then my Width field that I changed to 350 px goes BACK to the original px size automatically. 350 px is changed back to the original 285 px and the image never refreshes to a larger size.
It would be nice if it were user error so let me know if I am missing something.
Extra note: if I put in a MUCH smaller or larger px size than the orginal image say 10px from an original 285 px, or 600 px from an original 285 px it works perfectly. If I put in 350 px from an original 285 px it works like 1 out of 14 times??? Honestly, I counted.
It's like it notices a large size change but most of the time it doesn't respond to a slight size change. Am I missing something?
If I put in 10px and it works. Close it out, go back in then the 350 px works (right after the 10 px sucessful resize). Close again, try 350 px and it doesn't work, nor does it work at 350 px again for the next 10-12 times, it just changes right back to 285 px as soon as I tab 3 times.
That seems crazy to me.
Thanks again for trying to help. -
When batching Save for Web, Illustrator also saves copy of .ai file
This question was asked and abonadoned here, so I'm posting because it's also happening to me.
CS4 & CS5 (I tried both), Mac OS 10.6
1. I select the "Save for Web PNG" action, which is part of the default set, and select "Batch."
2. I choose a source folder and choose a destination folder, and check "Override Action 'Save' Commands."
3. Illustrator then performs the Save for Web action, but puts the .png files in the original destination specified in the action. It also puts copies of the .ai files in the destination folder I created and specified in the Batch dialog box.
I want the .png files in my folder, and I don't want copies of the .ai files.
Pulling my hair out on this one, going to lunch. Thanks in advance for any helpAh, ok. That worked, for the most part. When I used "Folder" as the destination, my jpegs were saved to that folder, but I also got the .ai copies again. Argh. It was only when I chose "Save and Close" as the destination that I got just the jpegs.
So "Save for Web" is actually a type of export, rather than a save. It's confusing, since the action is called "Save for Web…" Plus, the batch works — in the original way I set it up — with a regular Save command.
btw, the top section only goes gray when "Save & Close" is selcted (see screen shot). Thanks for your help. -
Save for Web filetype default in PSE 8 on Windows 7
I just installed PSE 8 on a new Windows 7 system. On my earlier Windows XP system running PSE 6, the Save for Web filetype defaulted to JPEG Medium, which is what I wanted. On this installation, it defaults every time to GIF; I change it and save the file as a JPEG, and the next one defaults again to GIF. Closing PSE, rebooting Windows, nothing changes that. I would like to make the default JPEG Medium; is there a way?
On a MAC it does seem to stick on the last option you saved e.g. Jpeg if it was a Jpeg image.
For windows, this seems to work:
Find the file PhotoshopElementsEditor.exe using explorer (in the C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop Elements 8.0 folder) right click on that file and choose Run As Administrator.
Go back to the editor, open an image, select Save for Web and choose jpeg; then save that file. The next time you run the editor and use the save for web command the jpeg type should hopefully stick as the default. -
A different take on the "Save For Web" color shift issue...
Ok, everyone who has fussed much with photoshop and "Save For Web" knows about the color shift issue. If you want your colors to look right after you "save for web", you have to work in the sRGB colorspace, and have Proof Colors checked (soft proofing on) and the proof color setup set to Monitor RGB, otherwise what you get looks terrible when displayed in a browser.
But of course if you are editing for print, this is exactly what you DON'T want to do. Well, I work in both. In fact, often the same images, and I want them to appear as close as reasonably possible in both print and web formats, and without a lot of fussing on my part. And I'm pickiest about the print mode, since I have the most control there, so that's the way I want to edit by default.
Nothing new here.
Now comes the interesting part (in my mind, anyway). Obviously there is a known remapping -- because PhotoShop DOES it when you select Proof Colors. So the inverse mapping must also be known (with some gamut issues, but I'm not concerned with those, because, after all, I'm VIEWING it on a monitor anyway!). What I want is a plug-in that automatically applies that inverse mapping so that, when I do a Save For Web, I end up with the colors I've been viewing all the time when setting the shot up in print mode. Then, too, I don't have to worry about what mode I'm in when I'm editing -- it just fixes it when doing a save-for-web.
Again, I want to edit in my normal print mode (typically ProPhoto colorspace, and with soft-proofing off or set to the printer/medium combination I expect to use), then do a single operation (might be a multi-step action) to "screw up" my colors so that when I then do a "Save-For-Web", the resulting image, when viewed on the average color-stupid browser, looks like the image I've been seeing in Photoshop.
Anyone know of such a beast? I would gladly pay for a plug-in that really works and fixes the problem.
And if you have other solutions, I'm interested, but the absolute requirement is that it I do one single edit pass for my colors for both print and web use, and I get what I see on the screen in PS on both the prints and on the web display (i.e., working in sRGB/Monitor RGB mode all the time won't cut it). And PREFERABLY, let me do all my editing work in the ProPhoto (or at least AdobeRGB) colorspace so I have a gamut closer to what the printer can do.
Anyone got a decent solution for this?Sorry, I think I'm being unclear. This has nothing to do with individual monitor profiles. In Proof Setup, "Monitor RGB" amounts to turning off ALL color management, and simply letting the monitor do what it will. It is what the vast majority of web browsers do (even if the operating system provides color management, the browsers don't take advantage of it), so that is what you need to consider for images that will be viewed on a web browser. If you convert your image to sRGB, select Monitor RGB in Proof Set up, and turn on Proof Colors, you will see the image as it would appear on a web browser (after you save it as a jpg or use "Save For Web/Devices" to save it as a jpg). Since almost everyone is running different uncalibrated monitors, there will be lots of variation in how it will look to them, so precise control of the color is unimportant.
That said, I would expect the color on a calibrated monitor (such as the one I use when editing) to be reasonably close to the colors I am seeing while editing in PS. To the extent a monitor deviates from "calibrated", those colors will vary, but a good monitor should show good colors. Unfortunately, this is NOT the case, as my previous post shows. The colors produced by the steps above are oversaturated and significantly shifted in hue. There is, to my mind, anyway, no reason for this. Adobe clearly knows what the mapping is between the colors as it displays them in PS and the un-controlled "Monitor RGB" -- that is, it is the color map they are using during normal editing display. If they were to reverse-apply that map prior to saving it as a jpg, then the image would appear on a browser on that same (presumably calibrated) monitor very similar to what you set up when editing. Anyone else viewing the image on a web browser with a calibrated monitor would also see good colors. To the extent other viewers' monitors are out of calibration, their colors will suck, but there's nothing you can do about that.
I guess in some sense I AM "asking for a Color-Mamangement-solution for a "non-Color-Management-situation", but specifically I'm asking for PS Color Management to do the best it can for non-Color-Managed situations that we all face every day.
Does that make more sense? -
PS CS6 action save for web error
In Photoshop CS6 actions when we save the image as JPEG through save for web it doesn't work when we run it, instead it runs and saves the image as HTML, i guess some error in it. I tried it again and again but it doesn't remember my save for web settings and saves the images as HTML.
It a new bug in CS6 though when you recorded the action you saved jpeg images to you desktop and you only entered file names onto the save for web action steps the action recorder recorded name.html. I replaced you save for web steps on my machine for my desktop and CS6 recorded name.html. I then did the same with CS5 though I only entered names CS5 recorded name.jpg.
If you expand the export steps tou will see the hard coded file names and extention
An action like this will always save the same files it can not be batch because you recorded Path and Names in the save for web steps. The .html files saved on with CS6 are actually jpeg files and if you rename them hrom name.html to name.jpg you can use them,
Set: cropping
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levels adjustment
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Export
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In: C:\Users\venkatr\Desktop\
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Top: 111.4 pixels
Left: 142.2 pixels
Bottom: 2342.6 pixels
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Angle: 0°
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<unknown>
Target Width: 350 pixels
Target Height: 225 pixels
Target Resolution: 0 per inch
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Using: Save for Web
Operation: Save
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In: C:\Users\venkatr\Desktop\
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Format: JPEG
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Quality: 55
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Quality Modification Channel Strength: 0
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Color Handling: Convert to sRGB
Metadata: None
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Target Height: 350 pixels
Target Resolution: 0 per inch
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Using: Save for Web
Operation: Save
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In: C:\Users\venkatr\Desktop\
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Format: JPEG
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Quality: 55
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Quality Modification Channel Strength: 0
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Matte Color Red: 255
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Target Width: 167 pixels
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PS Save For Web -- what are optimum GIF settings?
Hi,
I am making very simple buttons for a web page navigation bar as follows:
Create new file in sRGB with proper dimensions for my navigation area.
Fill with web page background color, #c4c0b4.
Use Type Tool to create text in gray #666666. (After creating these buttons, I change the text color to white for hover buttons.)
Use Guides and Slice Tool to define shape of each button.
Save For Web to create folder with all the buttons.
In the Save For Web dialog I have tried several of the GIF presets -- 128, 64, 32, with dithering and without dithering. They all look good, but I'm not sure which will give me that absolute highest quality, sharpest looking characters.
QUESTIONS:
1) Which of the GIF presets should I use for the best text appearance? I have read the Help file and it would seem that I do not need dithering since I am using two solid colors -- #c4c0b4 and either #666666 or white. To dither or not to dither, that is the question!
2) Do I need more than 32 colors?
3) In Save For Web, when I click Save and the Save Optimized As dialog opens, should I use the Default Settings under Settings, or would a custom setting be preferable?
4) Am I correct that I should NOT apply any sharpening to text-only files such as this?
As always, thanks to the pros here for any advice on this.
JohnHi Jesse,
I tried using text links and setting the size in pixels, but the sizing changed depending on the browser settings. Sizing in pixels is better than in points or generic sizes, but still subject to changes. I'm on a PC and my designer-friend who is helping me with this is on a Mac. We've done some tests and anything other than making the links with images is not consistent from browser to browser, Mac to PC. We want to guarantee that all the text on the page will not change -- size, spacing, leading, etc. My clients are graphic designers and art directors who will notice this kind of thing.
As for the client changing, adding or subtracting links... well, I'm the client and I'm doing the site myself, so that's not going to be an issue. In addition, as you see, the site is super-simple so there aren't likely to be a whole lot of major changes. That's not to say it could not happen, but saving all my Photoshop work files is not a problem.
Please understand, I am not arguing with you or Nancy. If I were doing a complicated corporate or business site, I would use text links for all the reasons you lay out... no question about that.
Thank you for the tips on saving GIFs. I'm using Photoshop CS4 and Save For Web. I think I now understand what settings to use. I am using GIFs only for the text. All of the images will be JPGs, but those are all generated automatically by Lightroom and a web gallery plug-in called SlideShowPro which not only generates the images but assembles the galleries and does all the Flash stuff. All I do is embed the Flash galleries into my pages. For a non-web person like me, that's nothing short of a miracle.
Your comments were not long-winded. In fact, I'm so eager to learn more about this stuff that I really appreciate your detailed explanations. Thanks for the comment about my work -- I'm excited about this new website which hopefully will make it look better than ever!
Best,
John -
Photoshop CS2 Save for Web bug?
I'm wondering if this is a known bug:
When I go to "Save for Web" and hit Save -- if the filename is going to replace a file that already exists and it says "Some of the specified files already exist in the target location. The files marked below will be replaced" and it gives me the options REPLACE or CANCEL.
If I click CANCEL so that it won't replace the existing, it STILL overwrites it.
This is quite annoying and has overwritten files I needed, even though I said No.
Is there a patch or something I need to fix this bug?Here were my actual steps:
I opened up a PSD file and did File -> Save for Web & Devices. I called it "test1.jpg".
Then I changed my PSD slightly, and went to Save for Web again. If I call it "test1.jpg", hit Save, it prompts me "Some of the specified files already exist in the target location...."
But then if I hit CANCEL to rename it to test2.jpg, it SAVES it anyway with test1.jpg and overwrites my original.
I know I can just try to be more careful with filenames, but sometimes it happens on accident. Especially since PS shortens the Save for Web filenames, so if I have a long enough name and i DO remember to add "2" to the end of the filename, it'll chop it shorter and overwrite my original.
A specific example:
My first file was called "NO-pocket-tee-tamarind-sole.jpg" which is JUST short enough to not get chopped.
When I go to save my second file as "NO-pocket-tee-tamarind-sole2.jpg" it chops off the 2 and overwrites my original file even though I hit CANCEL - don't overwrite!
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Save for Web does not remember quality settings
Hello,
I just about PSE8 today and Im on a mac with Leopard.
PSE does not remember the quality settings when "save for web".
The quality is 0 every time Im saving. Even if I change to 100 it does not remember it.
Can you help please? Im far from being an expert here.function(){return A.apply(null,[this].concat($A(arguments)))}
However in my library-folder/preferences folder I found 5 folders or files which are connected to adobe.
"write and read" is activated on all and Im the main user on this mac.
There is even one file called "Adobe PSE für Web speichern 6.0 Vor" so pretty much like "save for web". On this one I can write and read as well.
On Windows, there is a preferences file that is stored in the proper location for such files:
C:\Users\Ellis\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Save For Web PSE\4.0\Adobe Save For Web PSE 4.0 Prefs
PSE has no problem writing that file. This sounds similar to the file you found.
However, there is another file that Save For Web tries to write:
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop Elements 6.0\Settings\Recently Used Optimizations.irs
It is this file that is located improperly, in Program Files, which is supposed to be only for read-only executables (.exe), dynamic link libraries (.dll), and other read-only assets live. Programs normally don't have write permissions for these folders, so Save For Web fails to save its preferences. Perhaps there is something similar on the Mac. (I'm not an OS X expert, so I can't help with the Mac conventions of where things are kept.) -
Image resize quality not saved in Save For Web Preset?
L.S.,
I have been working on an Action to create 12 separate PNG's for further use in my icon-software. What I do is basically this:
Start out with a 256x256px image, save it for web four times in steps from 256, 48, 32 and 16px, (32-bit)
apply some masks / layers, save it for web again four times from 256-16px, (8-bit)
set the mode to indexed colour / apply other masks and layers, and save it for web again from 256-16px. (4-bit)
I let the sizing be done in the Save for Web step.
The 256-sized pics give me no problem as they are not scaled down.
The 32-bit pics give me no problem as they are scaled down, and antialias comes along, but they have 8-bit transparency: no problem.
In the 8-bit and 4-bit versions from 48-16px, I definitely want no antialias in the sized down versions. So I set the resize quality to 'Nearest Neighbor'.
However, Photoshop seems not to be able to remember different resize qualities in one Action.
In every Save for Web-action that I do, when I set it to resize, it does so. But the resize quality is not taken from the setting. It seems to be taken from the last used or recorded setting.
That is pretty annoying, because:
- When I let the downscaled ones of the first 4, be downscaled 'bicubic sharper'
- And I let the downscaled ones of the second 4, and third 4, be downscaled 'nearest neighbor'
Next time I run the Action, all downscaling is done by 'nearest neigbor'. That ruins my downscaled 32-bit icons - they get jaggy.
If I alter the steps in the action manually and set the first ones to 'bicubic sharper' again, suddenly all downscaled ones are done by 'bicubic sharper'.
That ruins my downscaled 8-bit and 4-bit icons: they get antialias, to lime green, and that shows...
I can save Presets in the Save For Web dialog, but as the groupbox already tells me: these presets only apply to the Image quality parameters, not to the sizing parameters. Those seem to be taken from the last run.
I have one alternative to this: before every Save for Web step, I downsize the image myself, and undo the history step after saving. It's quite some work and I would just rather see that the sizing parameters saved in the Preset!That's never been saved as part of the S4W presets. Bloody annoying.
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CS5 Crop marks don't work in Save For Web
I'm playing in the trial version of Illustrator 5.
I'm having trouble figuring out the crop marks. I select an object and try the various versions of creating crop marks. But when I Save For Web, it does not use the crop marks as a guide to trim the artwork down. The crop marks are visible.
In CS3, which I've used for years, I would create an object and use the crop mark tool to create the marks at the size of my object. When I would Save For Web it would save the file to the exact size of my crop marks, no matter if I had artwork in clipping masks that go outside the crops.
Why does this not work in CS5?You do speak the truth so in CS 4 and now Cs 5 you instead of drawing a rectangle and the making it into crop marks you simply draw an artboard then when you export you select to use artboards in the export dialog and select the artboard you just made and voilá.
Now before you go crazy this is an advance you can also choose to export all the artboards a range of artboards or a non-contiguous selection of artboards this way.
the difference here is that you draw the artborad which is actually drawing a rectangle and making the crop marks as in the CS 3 all in one opertation
it is really the same feature with lots of features added to it. Including the ability to name the art boards (cropped areas) number them reorder them
manage them in the artboard panel and then the team went farther than that with pasting in place pasting an element on all the artboards at once.
It is really just the crop area feature but with lots of possibilities.
If you need t draw an artboard within another artboard hold down the shift key. -
Hi all, the old post was http://forums.adobe.com/thread/662903
The Include Metadata option in Save For Web... saves the info found in File > File Info with the image. No resolution data.
This has zero effect on the image. Image resolution only affects printing the image. For viewing on the web, all that matters is height x depth measured in pixels.
Save For Web strips all resolution data from the file. The file simply doesn't have a resolution out of SFW.
The 72 ppi or whatever appears when you reopen into Photoshop, because Photoshop needs some resolution figure and therefore assigns 72 purely as a default value.
I have to save some images for my DPS workflow with 72ppi and the same also 108ppi.
I save the first using Save for Web and i think that is correct.
The problem is the 108ppi output - how is the best workflow to this? Can i use Save for Web? I think no!
I understand that Save for Web do not save 72ppi or any other ppi size...Think what you are quoting is what I have read also. Not sure why they would specify 72 and 108 ppi. That is just the pixels per inch of the display. Perhaps they want a larger image on the website. This could be acomplished by making the pixel size larger, without resampling. At least that is the way I see it, but could be wrong.
Take an image and open image/image size and play with the ppi with resampling off to check this out.
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