Photoshop defaults to ZIP compression on tiff files

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October 8, 2021
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Hello,

Photoshop recently changed the default compression mode of TIF files from RLE to ZIP. I appreciate that ZIP files are much smaller, but my team and I are working in a high-volume production environment, and the slower file saving method is slowing down our production capacity. Even files that have already been saved as RLE, once modified, have to be re-saved use Save As, in order to maintain RLE compression and not the much slower ZIP compression method.

Is there a way to change this default setting from ZIP to RLE?

macOS

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TheDigitalDog

Inspiring

The settings are sticky for me too, so the preference reset is probably your first step to try. You should not have to reset this every time.

Press and hold Option+Command+Shift (Mac OS) immediately after launching Photoshop. Numerous program settings are stored in the Adobe Photoshop Preferences file, including general display options, file-saving options, performance options, cursor options, transparency options, type options, and options for plug‑ins and scratch disks.

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J

J453

Legend

For me, the dialog preserves the setting from the last time it was used. So if I use RLE or any other setting in there, the next time the dialog opens, it's populated with those last settings. Are you not seeing that behavior?

Also, RLE is only for layer data, what is your Image Compression in the Tiff dialog set to?