Slow Saving files with Photoshop

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February 9, 2024
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Can anyone tell me why it is that saving (command-s) a 25-35MB TIF file takes so long (30-40 sec). If I use "save as", the same file is saved within 1 sec.

Photoshop 25.4

Macbook Pro

1,4 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5

Intel Iris Plus Graphics 645 1536 MB

16 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3

MacOS Sonoma 14.3

Others

Correct answer Hennie Keeris

I discovered it myself. I open my photos from Lightroom, edit them in Photoshop, then write them away as a tif file. Because in Lightroom in the presets "external editing" Photoshop is listed and the compression was set to ZIP, it took so long to save a file directly when I used command-s. Now that I set the compression back to LZW, the same file is saved within 1 second. Everything is running as before!

I think an update to Lightroom set the preset to ZIP, otherwise I have no explanation for this.
Thanks for responses and thinking along.

H

Hennie KeerisAuthorCorrect answer

Participant

I discovered it myself. I open my photos from Lightroom, edit them in Photoshop, then write them away as a tif file. Because in Lightroom in the presets "external editing" Photoshop is listed and the compression was set to ZIP, it took so long to save a file directly when I used command-s. Now that I set the compression back to LZW, the same file is saved within 1 second. Everything is running as before!

I think an update to Lightroom set the preset to ZIP, otherwise I have no explanation for this.
Thanks for responses and thinking along.

D

dcairns

Participant

Well this helped me get to the bottom of my long save times when editing photos from LightRoom to Photoshop and back. I had my LR preferences set to save as PSD. I changed to TIFF, 16 bit and compression = None (only had a choice between None or ZIP). Saves in a second rather than 30 seconds.

I often do layered work and like to save with layers intact so I can go back to the layers. Perhapds the PSD option does not work well with larger files? Maybe needs a PSB option?