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

Report · Jan 13, 2012

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.

Report · Nov 22, 2023

This is just incredible... I clearly remeber in CS4 i had an option to disable preview in SFW. It's just stupid they don;t care about this. I hate when i work on Huge ads that need to be exported for web also and i need to wait 15 seconds to render a huge PNG i do not need!!! The render is also so slooow. It doesn't matter if you have a 3090 TI... the Adobe image renderer it's just painfuly slow.

Report · Nov 29, 2023

So much unecessary crap keeps coming to Photoshop, but not one simple preview toggle...

Report · Apr 02, 2024

Hi Adobe, after 12 years of waiting for the implementation of a function that certainly requires half a day's work from your teams to implement, are you finally going to listen ? It's pretty unacceptable to have to wait forever when export for a totally useless function !

Report · Apr 02, 2024

Save For Web is legacy and will never be updated any more.

"Export As" is the replacement. Post a request for Export and you may have a better chance. In any case it's supposed to be faster with big files.

That said, Export is still buggy and a lot of us still use Save For Web. To handle big files, make an action that first resizes and then exports the small file.

Report · Apr 02, 2024

I still use SfW in production with full-resolution (30MP) files because it has granular settings and because I can include it in an action. Export (either version) is not a suitable replacement.