Photoshop takes a while to save even just one image

[ddphotograph]

Hi, i have a brand new PC with a dedicated graphics card. I have the graphics card setting ticked but it takes about 30 secs to a minute just for 1 image. Any ideas why?

[Stephen Marsh]

What are the pixel dimensions?

What is the colour mode?

What is the bit depth?

How many layers?

Whst file format are you saving or saving a copy to?

Are there any compression options in the file format settings?

[ddphotograph]

What are the pixel dimensions?
4640 x 6960

What is the colour mode?

RGB

What is the bit depth?
16

How many layers?

2

Whst file format are you saving or saving a copy to?

PSD

Are there any compression options in the file format settings?

Not to my knowledge

[D Fosse]

...and where are you saving to? What type of disk, what interface?

[davescm]

One more question to add to those from Stephen.

Are you saving to an internal drive or an external drive? If external what kind of drive and how is it connected to your PC (e.g. USB2 or USB3 etc)?

Edit : Dag asked the same question whilst I was typing 🙂

Dave

[ddphotograph]

SSD Internal

[D Fosse]

PSD compression is on by default. Turn it off in Preferences.

For bigger files, PSD compression can be extremely slow and increase save time up to 8x (from my own testing). Especially layers will slow it down.

I have all compression off for this reason. For small files it doesn't really matter, that's instant anyway, but when you get into the GB range and above it becomes totally unworkable. A file that saves in 15 seconds uncompressed can take one and a half minute compressed. I don't have time for that.