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How to set default Save for Web settings

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January 17, 2019
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I have a macro that I frequently use to save images to several different predefined sizes. I use Save for Web to do the actual saving.

The trouble is that every time Photoshop’s been closed since the last time I ran the macro, it always defaults to an “[unnamed]” setting in Save for Web – it defaults to some variety of non-transparent GIF, for some reason. So every time I need to export an image to these different sizes, I have to remember to open Photoshop, open the image, open the Save for Web dialog, change to the default preset (“JPEG High”), click “Done”, and then run the macro.

The Save for Web dialog is not available if no image is open, so the usual way of setting default settings by setting them with no documents open doesn’t work here. There is no “[Default]” setting in the dialog, nor is there any “Set as default” option in the dropdown menu next to the presets list.

Is there no way to set a preset as the default so that I don’t have to get rid of that utterly useless GIF preset every single time I open Photoshop?

This never used to be a problem – in previous versions of Photoshop, it remembered the last settings, so the problem only appeared if I’d actually used another setting myself (which happened occasionally, but rarely). Why was it changed to this bizarre and annoying behaviour in CC2019 (or whichever version exactly changed it)?

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Per Berntsen

Community Expert

@KPatrick

You need to post in the Photoshop Elements forum, this is the Photoshop forum.

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peterc22407271

Participant

If it's what I think you mean, set up what you want as your default setting, then Save in the little list menu button to the right of the preset pane:

D Fosse

Community Expert

Every setting in Save For Web will be recorded in an action. It doesn't matter what the defaults are, and there's no need for any of the workarounds proposed here.

I have several SFW actions saving out to jpeg or PNG at different sizes and compression levels, and none of them have ever failed. And I use them daily.

Export, however, is a different story. At the moment it is not actionable at all.

Toby from Shape

Known Participant

It seems for me also I go in and it's sometimes inexplicably set to save as GIF despite me hardly ever using GIF. I saw this as a bug from 8 years ago but the discussion has been removed / moved.

Annoying that this is still broken.

Toby from Shapehttps://shapecreative.co.nz/

KentuckyFriedChicken101

Participant

I hope I am understanding the question correctly. I just had the same problem.

Here was my solution:
Once your image is ready for save/export

Open up "Save for Web"

Change to the Preset/Settings you want

Then to save this Preset, you click "Done" in the bottom right corner. If you hover over the button, it will say "Remember current settings and close dialog".

That should do the job.

fabianr25778149

Participant

Briliant. Thanks

Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

You could use a script to perform the save for web step using hard-coded values and record that as a step into your action.

Re: Action to save as Jpeg in origin image folder

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SidedTech

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What?

On Sat, May 25, 2019, 9:16 AM Stephen_A_Marsh <forums_noreply@adobe.com>

Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

What?

Indeed!

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SidedTech

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Same here, it remembers other settings, but because they don't want you to be able to use the 'legacy' feature they intentionally make it reset every time, I've been waiting for an update for over a year paying for this, and it's not being addressed. All my other (even complex) settings are all intact, and even move between computers for me.