what ever happened to a replacement for save for web?

Forum|Forum|5 years ago
May 16, 2020
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Many years ago, PS moved/hid my most used feature, save for web. its a tool i use every time I use photoshop, and it is for me, one of its most useful features.

Over the years I drifed to faster, more productive tools like sketch.

Now I am back on the pc, and sketch is not available, I started using PS again. And I see save for web is still hidden below file-export, and still marked as legacy 6 years on.

So in 6 years, they have not touched save for web - it is becomming more obsolte and doesnt support new, better formats etc.

I was expecting Adobe to have developed some pretty amazing replacement in 6 yerars. But there is nothing? What are Adobe doing? have they abandoned all users who have to produce highly optimzed images for web? Are people using a different tool now?

D Fosse

Community Expert

Good question. Why Export was never finished is a mystery.

I still use Save For Web. They once promised that SFW would not be removed until Export had the full feature set, but we're still a long way off.

jackthegiantkiller

Inspiring

Yeah I'm having to use the legacy Save for Web quite a lot recently for a client, I was honestly shocked when I had to pick it up again and saw that Adobe, despite throwing so much bloat and AI into their app, couldn't even be bothered to come up with a more robust system for exporting animated GIFS. It's really a shame, and reeks of Adobe not grasping the needs of many of their customers.

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andrewb26431032

Participant

I am with you on this, Save for web does not give an option for webp and neither does the export window. Save for web by far the best way to monitor and control the quality and filesize of an image exported for web and now the photoshop team seem to have just neglected this. I agree there should be an updated save for web including a webp and other modern formats.

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

Export, Quick Export and Generate are supposed to take some of the work.

For animated gif there is no alternative and as long as no alternative is released Safe for Web is supposed to stick around.

Where it is »hidden« seems pretty meaningless.

If someone uses it often they are likely to either use the shortcut or some autimation (via Scripts or Actions) anyways.

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