Photoshop: "Increment and Save" command

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

The "Increment and Save" command in After Effects serves the fundamental need in professional creative work of preserving the various development stages of a job. Cinema 4D and other pro software packages also have this. Photoshop should too.

[Azriel777]

I wish Photoshop had an incremental "save" function built in.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

say you are making a whole series of pictures "famouse_picture 01.jpeg" to "famouse_picture 09.jpeg".
you save the first picture name "famouse_picture 01.jpeg" and then when you are ready to save the next picture you press a plus sign and it'll save it as "famouse_picture 02.jpeg" and so on.
or you simply press shift+control+s and ps will save that layer with its incremental added to the file

[PECourtejoie]

Hi, I also wish for a native increment and save, just FYI, there is a third party script that does it: https://www.artstation.com/marketplace/p/3bYW/increment-save-photoshop-script

edit: the old script does not exist anymore, see this one: https://www.artstation.com/marketplace/p/XOdlp/save-as-today-s-date-auto-version-up-photoshop-script

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

EVERY Adobe application should have "Increment and Save." Premiere, Animate, Illustrator, Photoshop, ALL OF THEM!

[Earth Oliver]

i would love this too. From what I understand, the ancient .psd format is what's getting in the way...

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

No, that's not it. It has nothing to do with the file format. Adobe just needs to write a new menu item with a short new piece of code that can parse the version number on the end, add 1 to it, and save a new file. I honestly don't know why this isn't "standard behavior" across the entire suite.

[Earth Oliver]

ah gotcha. I'm thinking more of an incremental file format, not just appending a #. Most modern file formats allow for saving only changes and incrementing those in a type of embedded history.

[PECourtejoie]

Another user used the default save, and lost weeks of work. An incremental saving option might have saved his back: https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-bugs/quot-fichier-est-de-type-incorrect-quot-fr/i...

[Stephen Marsh]

Upvoted!

Another script here:

https://www.computergrafik-know-how.de/javascript-datei-mit-automatischer-nummerierung-speichern/

[D Fosse]

+1. Great idea.

[jane-e]

Good idea and I've upvoted. I've been making my own incremental saves manually for 30+ years and am used to it, but it would be a nice feature.

In the interim, if you save documents in the Cloud, you can revert to previous versions:

https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/help/open-revert-cloud-document-version.html

Jane

[PECourtejoie]

Yes, cloud saving gives the function, but many users want to save locally, and might get more security by saving next to the previous file. 

One can share the following tweet: https://twitter.com/sPECtre/status/1620791293973762048

[PECourtejoie]

An older scrip I posted does not exist anymore, see this newer one: https://www.artstation.com/marketplace/p/XOdlp/save-as-today-s-date-auto-version-up-photoshop-script

[Stephen Marsh]

Some related disussions:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/save-increments-and-save-embedded-col...

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/can-anyone-write-me-a-photoshop-scrip...

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/script-for-incremental-saving/td-p/13...

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/repeat-action-and-save-file/td-p/8532...

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop/saving-sequential-file-names-of-the-same-file-to-multiple-f...

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop/automate-save-as-or-export-with-sequential-file-names/m-p/9...

[Stephen Marsh]

If Adobe ever implemented the variable filename token I mentioned in the link below, an incremental filename variable would be a great feature for inclusion.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-ideas/add-variable-save-filename-tokens-to-save-e...