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Why Photoshop "Save for Web" 300 Resolution After Export?

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September 16, 2022
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Why is Photoshop's "Save for Web" is 300 resolution after I export?

Normally, it's been 72 resolution after "Save for Web." It's seems after the update. "Save for Web" some times it's 300 resolution on some photos and it's 72 resolution on other photos. No consistency.

Is it just me or was it always this way?

Thank you

Calvin

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D Fosse

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Save For Web (and Export) will normally strip resolution metadata altogether, because it's not needed for screen/web. It's neither 72 nor 300, the file actually has no ppi value at all.

However, in SFW you can set metadata to "all", and in that special case the original ppi number is preserved. With all other settings for metadata, resolution is stripped from the file.

The 72 number you normally see isn't in the file, but is assigned by Photoshop when you reopen the file. Photoshop needs some ppi number to calculate font sizes and other things, and so a default number is assigned. But any number will do.

If you reopened that file in, say, one of the native Windows apps, you'd see 96 ppi, because that's the default there when ppi is missing.

Bojan Živković11378569

Community Expert

"However, in SFW you can set metadata to "all", and in that special case the original ppi number is preserved."

Not in 23.5.1 from my testing.

D Fosse

Community Expert

You can't set metadata to "all", or the setting doesn't retain ppi?

Bojan Živković11378569

Community Expert

So it is not changing dimensions only pixel per inch value? I can not reproduce on Windows using 23.5.1 version of Photoshop. It is cosmetic problem will not change anything since images for web will not be affected in any way. On the web that value will be ignored and only pixel dimensions will be used. What version of Photoshop is in question?

mayhemstudiosAuthor

Participating Frequently

Thank you for the reply.

Yes, that's what I understand. I'm using the lastest updated version of Photoshop. I don't understand why sometimes it saves it as 300 resoltion and other times it saves as 72 dpi. It was saving it as 72 resolution before the latest update. I don't know why it is doing this now or was this always happening.

Thank you

PECourtejoie

Community Expert

Hi! I'd try to find a common denominator with the files that are at 300 (what was their resolution, bit depth, color profile, format, did they have layers...) but SFW being legacy for a long time, I doubt we would see a fix, especially as the problem is cosmetic.

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