Photoshop CS4 "Save For Web" Settings
Shan-Dysigns Dec 8, 2009 10:05 AMI have two questions - my logic/explanation may be a little hard to follow, so refer to screenshots:
1. When "saving for web", in the "presets" drop-down menu, I have created a couple of presets and saved them in the default folder name
[ C:\Documents and Settings\Shandy Elliott\Application Data\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS4\Optimized Settings ]
and I have deleted the ones I do not want to use - ever.
I even navigate in Explorer to the above path and make sure no default presets are in that folder (with Photoshop not running). Photoshop keeps re-populating the default settings when I re-open Photoshop and/or each time I "save for web". Is there another location/file in Explorer I need to delete the default presets, or is this just a function of Photoshop to re-populate default presets (which I think is annoying if so)?
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2. When saving a .jpg, there are two ways (at least for my purposes) -
a. FILE/SAVE AS/.jpg (then set jpeg options)
b. "saving for web"
What I would like to do is be able to use "save for web", create a specific preset for absolute maximum .jpg quality ( JPEG - 100 in the screenshot - which would simulate the same result [relatively] as if I performed step 2a and used "quality 12" for jpeg options), and for Photoshop to NOT place dashes between words. I know I can un-check the Unix checkbox in "Filename Compatibility" in Edit Output Settings, but that seems to affect ALL presets and not just a single preset. I'm guessing this is just a global un-changable setting - sometimes I wish software was a little more customizable.
The reason I want to be able to do this (in addition to saving as in step 2a) is in some cases, I would benefit from the additional settings "save for web" allows [ namely being able to save a .psd into several different sized .jpg's by simply changing these settings ].
I do this instead of originally saving a .psd as a 800x800 .jpg, then having to open that 800x800 .jpg, resize as, say, 600x600, then saving again - which I'm basically destroying subsequent .jpg's because I'm re-compressing over an already compressed image. Saving directly from a .psd and having the option to simply resize the output, to me, seems my best option.
To conclude:
1. How can I retain specific "save for web" presets while eliminating the default presets?
2. How can I set a specific "save for web" preset to not place dashes between words while allowing the dashes for all other presets?
Thoughts?





