Friday, September 29, 2006
Prevent Photoshop CS from Truncating Filenames When Export to Web
Photoshop CS and Photoshop CS 2 has a terrible default setting whereby it truncates image filenames to 31 characters for Mac OS 9 compatibility.
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Setting Up Photoshop Defaults
Photoshop out of the box will truncate filenames to 31 characters for compatibility with the feeble file system in Macintosh OS 9. This only happens on the “save for Web” thumbnail part of the script. A kind soul at Adobe sent me the following instructions for disabling this default:
Create or open a file, then bring up the Save For Web dialog. Pop open the little flyout menu (circle with arrow in it) to the right of the Preset menu and choose “Edit Output Settings...”. In the Output Settings dialog, choose “Saving Files” from the second popup, then uncheck the “Mac OS 9” checkbox under “Filename Compatibility”. OK the dialog and click Done in the main Save For Web dialog.
Photoshop also applies a lot of automatic adjustments to Camera RAW images by default, including as much as one f-stop of exposure adjustment. If you’re generally careful about exposure and other settings at the time of exposure you’ll probably want to turn off the automatic adjustments and “save new camera defaults” each time that you get a new camera (or maybe just a new RAW format extension). The procedure is explained on page 162 of the hardcopy manual that is included with Photoshop CS2.