P: Option to disable the preview in "Save for Web"

Forum|Forum|14 years ago
January 13, 2012
55 replies
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Hi,

I work intensive on websites and other digital media (such as apps) and use slices and "save for web" all the time.

When I have a big file with many slices on it and only want to save one or two, photoshop creates a preview of the whole file. This takes a some time. I often don ́t need this optimization feature, because every slice has set the correct file preset already.

For example I see that a color or gradient has to be changed on the page. I make some slightly color change at one slice (on a big image file with many slices) and start "save for web". It makes a big preview and I have to wait before I can save.
One "trick" I use is to crop my image to a small size with the needed slices, save for web and the undo. But when I forget to undo and save.....its big sh** 😉

● So I only want, that there is in the save for web & devices dialog a checkbox "create preview".

● Also it would be a solution to simply save the last state of the tabs in the preview area. So when I switch to "Original" it remembers next time and only start to create a preview when I change to "Preview" or "2-Up" etc.

● A smarter additional feature would be (for me and the growing mass of people working only digital) to have a faster method to save only one slice without start a (oldschool) dialog for that. For example a small save-icon (a disk!?) in the corner of every slice. Like now with the number. The type of image preset could be adjusted in the slices options panel.

Hope to get some feedback.

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John26029487lpfe

Known Participant

Good news, Adobe now suggests you use Export > Export As... where you ALSO have an insanely long, untoggleable preview. They moved the ridiculous headache to a whole new venue and STILL didn't address this decades-long utter stupidity. They DON'T care, and they SUCK.

PECourtejoie

Community Expert

Hi, did you try Earth's suggestion to use Image processor Pro that would let you use a headless version of SFW?: https://sourceforge.net/projects/ps-scripts/files/Image%20Processor%20Pro/v3_2%20betas/

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Arash Hasanpoor

Participant

I need to disable this too, takes a looooooooooong time , it's 10 years now but you didn't CARE

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DigitalGraffiti.ca

Participant

SIX years, and this is still the bane of my existence. nobody gives AF about the preview. please disable it

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Mikko23797462nycx

Participant

Wow, this thread is like the pinnacle of customer service. 10 years and the only reply is "We can't do every suggestion" with no explanation as to why it would be impossible. Seriously, why? There are toggles like this all over, even in Paragraph Styles in InDesign (which, by the way, is always disabled by default, which is really unhelpful, but at least it exists). Now Save for web tells me to go to Export as... which is supposedly faster than Save for web, which is fair enough, but doesn't really solve the issue since, again, there's no way of disabling the preview when it's not needed :^)

This was a serious issue when I was working in an agency doing web graphics, and I only had an old macbook with 8gb ram. 10 years later I have 32gb ram and a banger GPU, but still Adobe software just seems to work slower and slower with each update. I guess to Adobe slapping "Legacy" on a feature they don't want to develop further and just keep on bloating up the software with AI things is a valid way of going about things. That's not to say features like "Remove Background" aren't nice and useful, cause they are, and I will definitely miss them when I move on to software that just works better in general.

Anyways, google ImageOptim for an open source image optimizer for Macs, and FileOptimizer for Windows. You can just drag your files into them and they will, very quickly, do a set of optimizing actions which you can pick and choose from in the settings.

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LarryK_95

Inspiring

It's sad it's over 10 years later and still don't have this simple toggle which would cut my file saving time in half. Export As still isn't a replacent after all this time either, it still doesn't work with basic keyboard commands (command-option-shift-w, enter, enter) so it's not any faster.

VladimirPaky

Participant

10 years and still nothing, hope my grandkids will have this feature.

mttscz

Participant

Don't know about photographers, but for illustrators like me, Clip Studio Paint has been heaven in this regard. I can turn the export preview on and off whenever I want. It even saves my resizing preferences for future files even after I closed the program. Have been using Photoshop only to add effects and manipulate colors in a more complex way, cause it's really bugging to have to wait MINUTES only to downsize a PNG.

The save for web's preview has ALWAYS been a headache to me, ever since I started using Photoshop as my main software.