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January 13, 2012
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P: Option to disable the preview in "Save for Web"

  • January 13, 2012
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Hi,

I work intensive on websites and other digital media (such as apps) and use slices and "save for web" all the time.

When I have a big file with many slices on it and only want to save one or two, photoshop creates a preview of the whole file. This takes a some time. I often don ́t need this optimization feature, because every slice has set the correct file preset already.

For example I see that a color or gradient has to be changed on the page. I make some slightly color change at one slice (on a big image file with many slices) and start "save for web". It makes a big preview and I have to wait before I can save.
One "trick" I use is to crop my image to a small size with the needed slices, save for web and the undo. But when I forget to undo and save.....its big sh** 😉

● So I only want, that there is in the save for web & devices dialog a checkbox "create preview".

● Also it would be a solution to simply save the last state of the tabs in the preview area. So when I switch to "Original" it remembers next time and only start to create a preview when I change to "Preview" or "2-Up" etc.

● A smarter additional feature would be (for me and the growing mass of people working only digital) to have a faster method to save only one slice without start a (oldschool) dialog for that. For example a small save-icon (a disk!?) in the corner of every slice. Like now with the number. The type of image preset could be adjusted in the slices options panel.

Hope to get some feedback.

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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    September 1, 2017
    Longtime user,  been awaiting a disable preview on Save for Web for many years, but no option ava. Such a simple thing to fix, and so important to every user, not sure how a company like Ps can overlook something like this. Guess they are just trying to find a way to make us pay for the option to become available to users. all about the money! shame!
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      marcoroni
      Participant
      August 18, 2017
      I am using SFW to export hi-res images because that's the only way to save the images in PNG24. The preview is painstakingly long...

      Please implement this 6-year-old feature request!
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        FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
        Inspiring
        July 25, 2017
        Please, Adobe, this needs to be implemented. Put less focus on telling users how to use software and more focus on adapting the software to how users are using it. We don't need a new separate program (Adobe Generator) to export assets, let us use the functionality already built-in to Photoshop but kill the CPU/GPU-hogging previews.
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          FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
          Inspiring
          June 13, 2017
          Please implement this feature request.  It is killing me waiting minutes for the unwanted and unneeded preview to buffer
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            FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
            Inspiring
            May 31, 2017
            My workaround is to create an action that will save for the web with the settings I want and close the image. I just press the play action button and it will save without the preview. This works good if I have many photos that I want to export with maximum (or any other quality) settings. But if I need to change folder o anything, then I'll have to do it manually again. 
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            Meekohi
            Participant
            May 22, 2017
            The problem I find is that even if you want a final low-res output, if your current image is high resolution (i.e. you plan on reducing resolution in the SFW panel as opposed to resize, then SFW, then undo),  it will load and immediately tries to preview render some huge PNG which locks up your computer for ~30-60 seconds.
              Earth Oliver
              Earth Oliver
              Legend
              May 22, 2017
              why are you using SFW to export hi-res images?
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                FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
                Inspiring
                May 22, 2017


                The Preview in the "Save for Web" takes so much time to load, especially when I want to export higher resolution pics. It would be a HUGE time saver if you can include an option to Disable the Preview! PLEASE !!!!!!!
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                  FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
                  Inspiring
                  May 22, 2017


                  when exporting a large image the preview progress bar can take a long time, before you can change the pixel values etc...

                  if you could click a button to cancel the preview then adjust the settings it would make it better for the use of large files in export.
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                    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
                    Inspiring
                    May 20, 2017
                    I ALSO NEED EXACTLY THE SAME FEATURE, it is reallyyyyyyyy unblievable that we cannot disable preview in Save for Web....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
                    Please helpppppppppppppppppppp usssssssssssssssssssssssssss
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