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May 3, 2012
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Photoshop: move JPG and TIFF saving-options to preferences

  • May 3, 2012
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Everytime we have to save in jpg or tiff we get a dialog-box up with options, could we move this when checked as default to preferences and never get this up again? Or put these checkboxes in the first window where you choose path etc? Have this as a "save as default-options" or similar. With this option we don't need to check everytime that you have correct options and newbies also don't do anything wrong by having the standard settings on. JPG with max compression and so on..

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    Mdentonetc
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    June 15, 2018
    I work on my file as a Photoshop file with layers. I need to export it as a flat tiff with alpha and compression for use in a game. Including layers increases the file size. I have never used layers in a Tiff file in my 12 year career as a game artist.

    That's great that it works for you, but there are thousands of people who use tiffs in other ways and could use other defaults.
    JohanElzenga
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    JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    June 15, 2018
    What’s the point of using layers if you save the image without them? I think the current behavior makes all the sense in the world.
    -- Johan W. Elzenga
    Earth Oliver
    Earth Oliver
    Legend
    June 15, 2018
    if your image has layers, of course Ps is going to save those layers as default... can you imagine the tragedies if the default was to save without?
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    Mdentonetc
    Known Participant
    June 15, 2018
    I'd also like to bump this discussion.  I have to uncheck "Save with Layers" EVERY time I save a tiff.  I have never wanted a tiff with layers, and yet this is the default save action.  It's insane that it doesn't save my save options from the last save.  JPEG can do this and has much less complex settings.
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    Samoreen
    Inspiring
    January 3, 2018
    I should add that the problem appears mainly with 16-bit images. Anywya, ZIP should be used in any case. Only a few programs were unable to open ZIP Compressed TIFF files but it's now fixed in most of them.
    --Patrick
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    Samoreen
    Inspiring
    January 3, 2018
    Hi,

    Not necessarily layered TIFFs. Last year, I have made a study over a large number of non compressed TIFF files (photos) re-saved and compressed in LZW mode. About 50% of them were about 5/10% bigger than the originals. Someone else made a more accurate study and got similar results. I couldn’t believe it, that’s why I wanted to test myself.
    --Patrick
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    bryn_f
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    January 3, 2018
    All my 16 bit tiffs compressed lzw are bigger than uncompressed. Zip is slower than lzw but I always use it for this reason (also find its smaller than lzw for 8 bit but can't be multi threaded so slower saves)
    Earth Oliver
    Earth Oliver
    Legend
    January 3, 2018
    i've never seen an LZW be larger than a non-compressed... is that with layered tiffs?
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    Samoreen
    Inspiring
    January 3, 2018
    Re-activating this discussion...

    When I save a TIFF file, the options dialog box defaults to LZW compression mode, which is the worst choice for photos (most of the time, the LZW compressed file is bigger than the non-compressed version). How can I specify ZIP or None as the default option ? The last choice is not retained.
    --Patrick
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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    August 5, 2015
    Why not speed up at least the saving of TIFF files: there is for 99,9% of people no reason to have to go through the second TIFF-saving-menue (to confirm again and again if there should be LZW, ZIP or no compression or whatever...) Kind regards.
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